Maura Reilly – a feminist curator, who back in 2007 co-curated with Linda Nochlin the international feminist exhibition, Global Feminisms, and in 2018 published the book, Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating – already acclaimed the concept of this year’s Venice Biennale as an activist one:įor Alemani to curate a major international exhibition, arguably the most important one in the world, to be majority-female is, despite her subtlety, an overtly feminist and curatorial activist gesture-and it is a much-needed turning of the tables. Does this mean that the rationale behind Nochlin’s question has become – or will soon become – obsolete? To be precise, both the list of artists presented at this year’s edition curated by Cecilia Alemani, and the list of artists representing their national pavilions are dominated by women artists. This year marks five years since the passing of the prominent American art historian, Linda Nochlin, who became world renowned for her 1971 ground-breaking article, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” Unfortunately, Nochlin will not bear witness to this year’s 59 th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale that promises to be a ground-breaking long-overdue acknowledgment of women artists and feminist art and curators across the globe.
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