Swiss painter
Miriam Cahn, untitled 10 May 2012, 2012, pastel and charcoal on paper, 39 x 23 cm. Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Collection Miriam Cahn (born 21 July 1949) is a Swiss painter.
Biography
Cahn was born on 21 July 1949 in Basel, Switzerland .[ 1] Schule für Gestaltung Basel in Basel from 1968 to 1973, where she became involved with feminist and anti-nuclear movements.[ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
Work
Cahn's paintings and drawings incorporate feminism and child endangerment[ 5] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] Being a Women in My Public Role in 1979.[ 3] Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York City, in 2011.[ 8] Neo-Expressionist influences.[ 9]
Reception and awards
Jörg Scheller describes Cahn as a "feminist who likes to fight."[ 10] French far-right associations petitioned to have Cahn's fuck abstraction! removed from the "My Serial Thought" show at the Palais de Tokyo , claiming the painting depicted "pedo-pornographic" material. France's State Council rejected the appeal and allowed the painting, which abstractly depicted the Bucha massacre by Russian troops .[ 11]
In 1998, Cahn won the Käthe Kollwitz Prize awarded by the Academy of Arts, Berlin .
In 2024, Cahn received the Goslarer Kaiserring .[ 12]
Collections
Cahn's works can be found in numerous art collections around the world, among others at MoMA in New York, at the Tate Modern in London, at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw .
Exhibitions
Individual exhibitions
READING DUST, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2024Miriam CAHN: Ma pensée serielle, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2023 [ 13]
Miriam Cahn: ME AS HAPPENING, Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), 2020–21
Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, 2019
Miriam Cahn: I as Human , Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw , 2019Miriam Cahn: I as Human , Haus der Kunst , Munich, 2019everything is equally important, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia , Madrid, 2019DAS GENAUE HINSCHAUEN, Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2019
ICH ALS MENSCH, Kunstmuseum Bern, 2019
devoir-aimer, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris, 2017
mare nostrum, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, 2016
Lachen bei gefahr, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, 2012
Sarajevo, Stampa, Basel, 1993Stampa, Basel, 1994
Nachkrieg-Vorkrieg (Was Fehlt), Stampe, Basel, 1992Museum für Moderne Kunst , Frankfurt am Main, 1992, 1995Verwandschaften, Galerie Espace, Amsterdam, 1991Verwandschaften, Stampa, Basel, 1990Verwandschaften, Art Frankfurt, 1990Verwandschaften, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 1990Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich, 1988
Van de Loo, Munich, 1988
Lesen in Staub, Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem, 1988Lesen in Staub, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, 1988Lesen in Staub/Weibliche Monate, Kunstverein Hannover, 1988Musée Rath , Geneva, 1988Lesen in Staub/Strategische Orte, Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, 1987Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 1987
Galerie Vorsetzen, Hamberg, 1987
Stampa, Basel, 1987
Strategische Orte, DAAD, Berlin, 1986Strategische Orte, Stampa, Basel, 1986Strategische Orte, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, and Kunstmuseum, Bonn, 1985Strategische Orte, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich, 1985Das Klassische Lieben, Musée la Chaux-de-Fonds, 1984Das Klassische Lieben, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna , 1984Das Klassische Lieben, Stampa, Basel, 1984Das Klassische Lieben, Kunsthalle Basel, 1983Wach Raum 1, Konrad Fischer, Zurich, 1982Stampa, Basel, 1977, 1979, 1981
Selected group exhibitions
Documenta 14 , Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany, 2017[ 14] 21st Sydney Biennal, 2018
Prière de toucher – Le tactile dans l'art, Museum Tinguely, Basel, 2016
Module mai, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2010
Sammlung Van de Loo, Neue National galerie Berlin, 2004
Where Is Abel, Your Brother?, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art , Warsaw,[ 15] From Beyond the Pale, Irish Museum of Modern Art , Dublin, 1994Centre d'Art Contemporian, Geneva, 1994
Zur Sache Selbst, Künstlerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts Museum, Wiesbaden, 1990Triennal de Dibuix, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1989Sydney Biennal , 1986Crosscurrents in Swiss Art, Serpentine Gallery , London, 1984Documenta ,Feministische Kunst International, Frauenzimmer, Basel, 1979Claudia Martínez Garay and Miriam Cahn: Ten Thousand Things , Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, 2020[ 16]
References
^ Foster, Alicia (2004). Tate women artists . London: Tate. pp. 186– 187. ISBN 978-1-85437-311-3 ^ "Miriam Cahn" . Palais De Tokyo . Retrieved 19 September 2023 .^ a b "Cahn, Miriam" . Oxford Art Online . Retrieved 3 April 2015 .^ https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-artist-to-pull-works-from-swiss-museum-over-nazi-era-collection/ [bare URL ^ "Expo à Paris : "Insupportable, décrochez ça": Un tableau d'une artiste suisse fait un tollé" . 20 minutes ^ "Constat d'Huissier au Palais de Tokyo pour une abominable toile de Miriam Cahn – Karl Zéro" . YouTube . 7 March 2023.^ Cunningham, Peter (April 1980). "Feministische Kunst Internationaal: A Review". Oxford Art Journal . 3 (1): 83– 84. doi :10.1093/oxartj/3.1.83 . JSTOR 1360183 . ^ a b Priscilla Frank (3 September 2012) "Swiss Painter Miriam Cahn On Her Upcoming Exhibition 'Lachen Bei Gefahr' At Badischer Kunstverein, Germany" , Huffington Post (Arts & Culture) . Retrieved 18 June 2013.
^ Halle, Howard (9 March 2011). "Review: Miriam Cahn | Art | reviews, guides, things to do, film – Time Out New York" . Time Out New York . Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2016 . ^ Scheller, Jorg (9 November 2012). "Miriam Cahn's Fragmented Bodies" . Frieze (7). Retrieved 19 September 2023 . ^ Lauter, Devorah (14 April 2023). "A Court Has Ruled That a Controversial Miriam Cahn Painting, Targeted by Far-Right Censors, Can Remain Hanging at the Palais de Tokyo" . ArtNet News . Retrieved 19 September 2023 . ^ "Goslarer Kaiserring 2024 geht an Künstlerin Miriam Cahn" [Goslar Kaiserring 2024 goes to artist Miriam Cahn]. Tagesschau (German TV programme) . Retrieved 12 January 2024 .^ "Ma pensée sérielle – Palais de Tokyo" .^ "Miriam Cahn" . www.documenta14.de . Retrieved 23 March 2019 .^ Hillstrom, Laurie Collier; Hillstrom, Kevin (1 January 1999). Contemporary women artists ISBN 1-55862-372-8 ^ "Where the Andes Meets the Alps: Miriam Cahn and Claudia Martínez Garay in Nanjing" . ocula.com . 7 January 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021 .
Further reading
Schmetterling, Astrid. "Cahn, Miriam." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed 18 February 2012; subscription required).
ed. Marta Dziewańska. "MIRIAM CAHN: I AS HUMAN ". Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2019).
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