"FEMINISMS!"

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FEMINISMS! Photo courtesy of Centre de Culture Contemporánia de Barcelona.

FEMINISMS! brings together the exhibition The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s. Works from the Verbund Collection, Vienna and Choreographies of Gender with an extensive program of activities to highlight the dialogue, continuities and divergences between the radical feminism of the seventies and today’s various forms of feminism.

The seventies marked a turning point in the feminist movement. A new generation took to the public stage, turning the world around and shaking up the established symbolic order by means of multiple practices and cultural representations. The resulting art was ground-breaking, both for its use of languages and forms, and for its defiance of gender constructs, the exercise of women’s right to decide about their bodies and the condemnation of gender violence, and the crucial discovery that the personal is also political.

The explosion of freedom and creativity of the feminism movement in the seventies has been a constant source of inspiration for modern day feminists, of which erupted in unprecedented richness and diversity that also affected many other collective emancipation movements. In the present-day context of the rise of conservatism and the cutting back of rights, the FEMINISMS! project sets out to highlight the crucial contributions of the fight for equality and diversity of feminism that have definitively changed the way we see the world.

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