We will go as far as the sun.

Pioneers of geometric abstraction

Geometrische Komposition bestehend aus einer Collage. Ein grauer Hintergrund mit einem schwarzen und einem violetten Kreis, im Vordergrund ein schräges Quadrat.

With Wir werden bis zur Sonne gehen. Pioneers of Geometric Abstraction, the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum is focusing on the importance of female artists for the development of geometric abstraction in the 20th century in winter 2024/25. Names such as Wassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian are still primarily associated with non-objective painting after the First World War. Correcting this one-sided narrative is an essential approach of the exhibition project. In fact, artists such as Lyubov Popova, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Sonia Delaunay were pioneers in the development of a geometric-abstract formal language. From the 1940s onwards, artists such as Verena Loewensberg, Aurélie Nemours and Vera Molnár also played a decisive role in the further development of non-representational art. The same can be observed beyond the cultural centers of the Western world in Central and Latin America or in the Middle East. Here, Lygia Clark in Brazil, Lydi Prati in Argentina and Saloua Raouda Choucair in Lebanon, among others, developed their own constructive-abstract formal language.

Mit Werken u.a. von Anni Albers (DE/US), Gertrud Arndt (DE), Margarita Azurdia (GT), Marianne Brandt (DE), Marcelle Cahn (FR), Saloua Raouda Choucair (LB), Lygia Clark (BR), Franciska Clausen (DK), Sonia Delaunay (UA/FR), Marthe Donas (BE), Alexandra Exter (RU), María Freire (UY), Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt) (DE/VE), Florence Henri (US/FR), Barbara Hepworth (GB), Carmen Herrera (CU/US), Katarzyna Kobro (PL), Benita Koch-Otte (DE), Judith Lauand (BR), Verena Loewensberg (CH), Mary Martin (GB), Vera Molnár (HU/FR), Marlow Moss (GB), Aurélie Nemours (FR), Louise Nevelson (US), Maria Nicz-Borowiak (PL), Lygia Pape (BR), Matilde Pérez (CL), Charlotte Perriand (FR), Ljubow Popowa (RU), Lidy Prati (AR), Carla Prina (IT), Margaretha Reichardt (DE), Bridget Riley (GB), Olga Rosanowa (RU), Ana Sacerdote (IT/AR), Aen Sauerborn (DE), Alma Siedhoff-Buscher (DE), Loló Soldevilla (CU), Warwara Stepanowa (RU), Gunta Stölzl (DE/CH), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (CH), Mary Vieira (BR), Charmion von Wiegand (US), Shizuko Yoshikawa (JP/CH), Teresa Żarnowerówna (PL)

Kuratorinnen: Dr. Astrid Ihle, Julia Nebenführ

This exhibition is available in

German