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Exhibitions 22.10.2021 – 13.02.2022 Ausstellungseintritt

Meret Oppenheim My Exhibition

Today Meret Oppenheim is considered the most important Swiss woman artist of the 20th century and the leading representative of surrealism. The transatlantic retrospective Meret Oppenheim. My Exhibition is presenting the artist's outstanding œuvre spanning five decades.

For the first time, this show reflects on Oppenheim's rarely researched work of the post-war years and reveals its affinities with contemporary art movements, such as pop art, nouveau réalisme, arte povera, and postmodern design. The exhibition clearly illustrates Oppenheim’s radically open concept of art, her rapport with the vibrant art scenes in Paris, Basel, and Bern as well as their significance for the phases of her artistic career. The retrospective is a collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Menil Collection in Houston. It includes some 200 key works on paper, objects, sculptures and paintings, and provides insight into, among other things, the world's largest museum collection of the artist's work at the Kunstmuseum Bern. Bern is the only station of the exhibition in Europe.

An exhibition of the Kunstmuseum Bern; The Menil Collection, Houston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Curated by Nina Zimmer, Kunstmuseum Bern; Natalie Dupêcher, The Menil Collection; Anne Umland, The Museum of Modern Art.

Das Digitorial® zur Ausstellung
Das Digitorial® zur Ausstellung

The Digitorial® for the exhibition

To coincide with the major retrospective the Kunstmuseum Bern is launching its first Digitorial®. With text, image, sound, biographical photographs and film clips, viewers can dive into Oppenheim’s life and work in five chapters. The focus is on her self-assertion as an artist.

Link: meretoppenheim.kunstmuseumbern.ch

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With the support of
Kanton Bern Credit Suisse