As of: March 8, 2024, 9:00 a.m
By: Katja Kraft
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Don't leave it hanging: The artist Jessy Strixner turns wood into clothing.
Your socks can now be seen in the Munich Art project space.
© Marcus Schlaf
On International Women's Day, the Munich Art project space is showing its “Female Show”.
Until mid-April you can see the remarkable art of 54 women.
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Now you can hear them nagging again, the clever ones: “Whaaaat?
An exhibition only with the works of female artists?
And what about the men?” The other way round, it turns into a stiletto heel: for how many centuries only the works of men hung in museums, salons, galleries – and no one objected.
“Equality still doesn’t exist, and not just in this respect,” emphasizes Tobias Sehr.
That's why he's now inviting people to the “Female Show” for the second time in his Munich Art project space.
From International Women's Day (March 8, 2024), 22 artists from Munich, five from Bavaria, 15 from the rest of Germany and two international artists will present themselves.
So 66 works by 54 ladies in a small space - but don't worry, nobody has to worry about being overwhelmed by so much female power.
Curator Josephine Kaiser deliberately selected such a large number of works, literally overwhelming the walls of the Munich Art Gallery.
To point out two fundamental problems: There are so many more brilliant female artists in this world than are present in the public eye;
and in cities like Munich there is not enough space in which they can show themselves and their work.
The Munich artist Michaela Wühr takes us above the clouds in her airplane window paintings.
© Marcus Schlaf
Admittedly, the latter also applies to male artists.
But the fact is: Even in the 21st century, there are still more male professors teaching at art schools around the world than female, male artists dominate the exhibition halls, the galleries, the trade fairs, the museums;
and is almost exclusively told by male artists in school textbooks.
The question of all questions now is of course: Can one recognize a common signature in all the works that can now be seen in the Munich Art project space?
In short: Does female art exist?
Kaiser shakes his head.
Although - at first she was convinced that they existed.
“But now I have to say: male or female art, these are outdated attributions.
I’m convinced that without looking at the artist’s name you can’t tell which gender was at work.”
In the Female Show, Munich Art shows art that inspires
In any case, it is not important who created the work.
What matters is what it triggers in the viewer.
And no matter whether you're a man or a woman: Anyone who doesn't feel a yearning when looking at Michaela Wühr's oil paintings, for example, has never experienced how magical traveling is.
The Munich artist painted wooden panels that have the exact shape of airplane windows.
She takes off with us: From LaGuardia (New York), Ezeiza (Buenos Aires), Noi Ban (Hanoi).
Or are we already on the landing approach?
Each of the pictures costs 850 euros.
Of course you want to hang all three of them in your bedroom.
The first view in the morning: above the clouds.
Freedom.
Limitless.
When you say this to Tobias Sehr and Josephine Kaiser and calculate the total price of 2550 euros, something interesting happens.
Kaiser immediately says: “If someone wants to buy all three, we can agree on a price of 2,500 euros.” And Sehr pauses: “Of course we can do that.
But it's a bit strange that artists always tend to offer discounts on their own initiative." Away from the supplicant position and towards self-confidently offering high-quality goods for the value behind them.
This is what Sehr wants for the entire art scene.
And on a day like International Women's Day, one would like to add: Ladies in particular should stand behind what they can do even more naturally.
How diverse, how precise, how clever, how good they are: this show proves it.
Until April 20, 2024 in the Munich Art project space, Amalienstraße 14;
Wed.-Fri.
2 p.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.