Guerrilla girls

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Action by the guerrilla girls
Guerilla Girls posters at MoMA

Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous operating, consisting of feminist activists artist group .

The first group Guerrilla Girls was in 1985 in New York City founded with the aim of inequality between the sexes and the race to become the center of the larger art community and the art world. The group uses culture jamming in the form of posters, books, placards and public appearances and actions to expose sexism and racism as well as discrimination and corruption in the art world based on the role model, idol and ideal of white men. The aim is equal treatment in the art world.

To remain anonymous, members still wear gorilla masks and use pseudonyms that refer to deceased artists. "First and foremost, we wanted the focus to be on the issues, not on our personality or our own work."

description

Members use pseudonyms that are mostly names of dead artists, such as Frida Kahlo , Eva Hesse , Paula Modersohn-Becker , Käthe Kollwitz , Gertrude Stein , Georgia O'Keeffe . How big the group really is and who belongs to it is not known, listed or published. The poster and postcard campaigns and the public appearances of the guerrilla girls draw attention to the exclusion of women and non-whites in the art and commercial world around the world.

“In 18 years we have produced more than a hundred posters , stickers , books, print projects and campaigns that publicize sexism and racism in politics , the art world , film and culture in general. We use humor to convey information, provoke discussion, and show that feminists can be funny. We wear gorilla masks to focus on the issues rather than our personalities. We declare ourselves as the consciousness of culture and as feminist counterparts to the predominantly male tradition of anonymous folk heroes such as Robin Hood , Batman and the Lone Ranger . Our work has gone around the world thanks to like-minded people we are proud to have as supporters. It has also appeared in hundreds of newspapers and magazines […]; and in innumerable art theoretical and feminist texts. The mystery of our identities has attracted attention. We could be any; we are everywhere."

It is now part of the group’s concept that it can be booked for performances and workshops. The Guerrilla Girls encourage break-offs and the founding of similar groups. So there is the Guerrilla Girls On Tour! , a traveling theater collective that three former guerrilla girls run as a guerrilla theater .

Guerrilla Girls - V&A Museum, London

Beginnings

The Guerrilla Girls were founded by seven artists in the spring of 1985, in response to the exhibition An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture of the MoMA , which opened the 1984th The exhibition was an opening show of the newly renovated and expanded MoMA building to give an overview of the (newest) most important contemporary and contemporary artists in the world. The seven artists were irritated and shocked by the fact and the “ fact ” that only 13 artists out of 165 represented artists were in the exhibition. The exhibited artists came primarily from Europe and America .

The first actions of the group were always in the same aesthetic:

  • Black block letters on white paper.
  • Flyers or posters were initially hung up illegally at night in SoHo and the East Village ( downtown Manhattan ).
  • Later they started to distribute the flyers, posters and postcards publicly during the day.
  • You always asked other people to participate.

In later works they begin to use ironic and satirical stylistic devices. Comparable to the artistic work of Jenny Holzer , Barbara Kruger etc. and the other active artists to this day in contemporary art.

In Anglo-American, English and German-speaking regions, artists are active as guerrilla girls. They are recalcitrant and resist the art business , art exhibitions , commercialization , art business and the publication of art with their actions . You criticize the institution and organization of the art world.

literature

Primary literature

  • Guerrilla Girls: Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls. HarperPerennial, New York 1995, ISBN 0-06-095088-9 .
  • Guerrilla Girls: The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art. Penguin, New York 1998, ISBN 0-14-025997-X .
  • Guerrilla Girls: Bitches, Bimbos, and Ballbreakers. The Guerrilla Girls' Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes. Penguin, New York 2003, ISBN 0-14-200101-5 .

Secondary literature

  • Joel Schechter: Satiric Impersonations. From Aristophanes to the Guerrilla Girls. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 2007, ISBN 0-8093-1868-7 .
  • Carol Small: Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls. In: Woman's Art Journal. 1998, pp. 38-40.
  • Josephine Withers: The Guerrilla Girls. In: Feminist Studies . 14, No. 2, 1988, pp. 285-300.
  • Pamela Takayoshi: No boys allowed: The World Wide Web as a clubhouse for girls. In: Computers and Composition. 16, No. 1, 1999, pp. 89-106, doi : 10.1016 / S8755-4615 (99) 80007-3 .
  • Reingard Klingler: The Guerrilla Girls. In: Marta Reichenberger (ed.): Who is afraid of Josephine Beuys. Richter, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-924533-48-2 .

Exhibitions (since 1991)

  • Guerrilla Girls Talk Back: The First Five Years, A Retrospective: 1985–1990 (1991), the Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, California
  • The Guerrilla Girls (2002), Fundacíon Bilbao Arte, Bilbao, ES
  • Guerrilla Girls (2007), Hellenic American Union Galleries, Athens, GR
  • Guerrilla Girls: Retrospective (2009), Millennium Court Arts Center, UK
  • Feminist Masked Avengers: 30 Early Guerrilla Girls' Posters (2011), Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries
  • Not Ready to Make Nice: The Guerrilla Girls in the Art World and Beyond , Columbia College Chicago (2012–2017) Traveled to Monserrat College of Art; Krannert Art Museum; Fairfield University; Georgia Museum of Art; DePauw University; North Michigan University: Stony Brook University: California State University: The Verge Center for the Arts: and Moore College for Art and Design.
  • Guerrilla Girls: 1985-2013 , Azkuna Zentroa (2013).
  • Guerrilla Girls: Not Ready to Make Nice, 30 Years and Still Counting , 2015, Abrons Arts Center
  • Media Networks: Andy Warhol and the Guerrilla Girls , 2016, Tate Modern
  • Art at the Center: Guerrilla Girls , 2016, Walker Art Center
  • The Guerrilla Girls and La Barbe , 2016, Gallery mfc-micheledidier, Paris.
  • Front Room: Guerrilla Girls , 2016–2017, Baltimore Museum of Art
  • Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls 1985–2016 , 2016–2017, FRAC Lorraine.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Interview ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from: Guerrilla Girls: Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls. HarperPerennial, New York 1995.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.guerrillagirls.com
  2. ↑ guerrillagirls.com: FAQ ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.guerrillagirls.com
  3. ↑ medienkunstnetz.de: Guerilla Girls (sic!)
  4. ↑ Webpage for booking inquiries ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.guerrillagirls.com
  5. ↑ Guerrilla Girls On Tour ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.guerrillagirlsontour.com
  6. ↑ https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2016/spelunker/exhibitions/3485/
  7. ↑ Michael Brenson: A Living Artist Show at the Modern Museum . In: The New York Times . April 21, 1984, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed August 27, 2016]).
  8. ^ Chronology: Exhibitions. Retrieved April 27, 2019 (American English).