Subliminal Projects is pleased to present AMERICAN PUNCHLINE, a group exhibition examining the alliance between art and politics, through the satirical lens. In a time when the lines between satire and reality, hyperbole and truth are almost undetectable, AMERICAN PUNCHLINE brings to focus a survey of contemporary artists who use satire as an artistic tool, to expose and criticize political and social injustices.

The Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly

From The Curator
The absence of women in history and art not to mention the deliberate exclusivity of male-dominated networks gave rise from 1980s onwards to countless institutions and alliances that continue to exist to this day, among them in 1984 frauen museum wiesbaden. 

That same year, the New York Museum of Modern Art launched an exhibition entitled An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture that set out to bring together the most important contemporary positions in the art world. There were only 13 women represented among the 169 selected positions there. All of the exhibitors were, moreover, white, and came from the United State or Europe. In this context, female activists from the art world founded a group to tackle the severe structural inequality in the treatment of women and People of Color in the art world: the Guerrilla Girls.

They counted how many solo shows had been held in major US museums, how many female artists were represented by commercial galleries, and what they earned. They made the sobering results public on what are now world-famous posters and leaflets. 

As the “conscience of the art world” they have for 40 years now been exposing the exclusion mechanisms and under-representation of women and People of Color in the art and culture world, which so likes to claim it is diverse, enlightened and progressive. Their art does not shy away from tackling Pop culture or politics, either. In order to preserve their anonymity, the members wear gorilla masks when in public and act using the pseudonyms of historical female artists, such as Käthe Kollwitz or Frida Kahlo.

In a special show, over 30 posters and films offer an overview of what is to this day an incomparable creative output. 

The Art of Behaving Badly marks the launch of the jubilee shows to celebrate the 40th anniversary of frauen museum wiesbaden, with the kind support of the State of Hessen, SV SparkassenVersicherung and the City of Wiesbaden’s Department of Culture.

BEYOND THE STREETS: POST GRAFFITI

ROGER GASTMAN:

The concept of “POST GRAFFITI” encapsulates the genre's journey of rebellious subway artists, originating from 70’s and 80’s NYC, to the global movement they’ve inspired. The term signifies a shift from the illicit nature of traditional graffiti to a more accepted, legitimate art form in gallery settings. As the movement has progressed, artists associated with “POST GRAFFITI” continue to draw from the rich history of graffiti writing and the streets, forming a loose coalition that blurs and elevates their source inspiration through drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation.

“POST GRAFFITI” is at the core of “BEYOND THE STREETS”, representing the embodiment of a larger picture of how far it has all gone and how raw it still remains. Graffiti has become a cultural phenomenon that informs music, fashion, politics, entertainment, marketing, and, of course, contemporary art. It has been on the runways of major fashion houses and memorialized in books and documentaries.

Women Reframe American Landscape: Susie Barstow & Her Circle/ Contemporary Practices 

Illuminating the artistic contributions and perspectives of women, this two-part exhibition includes the first retrospective of the nineteenth-century American artist Susie M. Barstow (1836–1923) and a presentation of contemporary works by artists Teresita Fernández, Guerrilla Girls, Marie Lorenz, Tanya Marcuse, Mary Mattingly, Ebony G. Patterson, Anna Plesset, Wendy Red Star, Jean Shin, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Cecilia Vicuña, Kay WalkingStick, and Saya Woolfalk. Engaging multigenerational perspectives, this exhibition recenters women in the canon of American art and expands how we think about land and landscape.

ACTS OF RESISTANCE: PHOTOGRAPHY, FEMINISMS AND THE ART OF PROTEST

South London Gallery & the V&A, with BuildHollywood, have installed one of our posters on Billboards throughout London

From South London Gallery:

This group exhibition at the SLG, organised in collaboration with the V&A, brings together works by international artists and collectives who are using the camera to challenge and move beyond traditional protest photography.

This urgent and political exhibition explores feminism and activism from an international and contemporary perspective. Looking at different approaches to feminism from the past 10 years, the show highlights shared concerns including intersectionality, transnational solidarity, and the use of social media and digital technology as a tool for change.

Acts of Resistance will reflect on recent events from across the globe, such as anti-rape protests in Bangladesh responding to the rise in violence against women and girls in 2020; the US Supreme Court overturning of Roe vs Wade in 2022; as well as the ongoing protests against the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody.

Artists include: Laia Abril, Hoda Afshar, Poulomi Basu, Nan Goldin, Guerrilla Girls, Sofia Karim, Mari Katayama, Teresa Margolles, Sethembile Msezane, Zanele Muholi, Wendy Red Star, Tabita Rezaire, Raphaela Rosella, Aida Silvestri, Sheida Soleimani, Hannah Starkey, Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel, and Carmen Winant.

From the Gallery: Question the Space asks what can be a work of art, where can a gallery exist and how do audiences engage with the space? What do you enjoy about visiting an art gallery? What do you expect to see? 

Through a range of works and programs both inside the gallery and around central Dandenong, audiences are invited to look, participate and connect with the art, the artists and the spaces. 

Enjoy works by artists Rachel Burke, Ross Coulter, Jordan Fleming, Guerrilla Girls, Melbourne Art Library, Kent Morris, Dean Norton, Tina Patlas, Kenny Pittock, Nick Selenitsch and TextaQueen.

Artwork locations include Walker Street Gallery and various venues around central Dandenong.

Women Reframe American Landscape: Susie Barstow & Her Circle/ Contemporary Practices 

Illuminating the artistic contributions and perspectives of women, this two-part exhibition includes the first retrospective of the nineteenth-century American artist Susie M. Barstow (1836–1923) and a presentation of contemporary works by artists Teresita Fernández, Guerrilla Girls, Marie Lorenz, Tanya Marcuse, Mary Mattingly, Ebony G. Patterson, Anna Plesset, Wendy Red Star, Jean Shin, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Cecilia Vicuña, Kay WalkingStick, and Saya Woolfalk. Engaging multigenerational perspectives, this exhibition recenters women in the canon of American art and expands how we think about land and landscape.

From USU, Tippets and Eccles Gallery:

Guerrilla Girls: Posters and Actions, 1985 to Now, is a student-curated exhibition led by Associate Professor of Art History Marissa Vigneault. The exhibition showcases Guerrilla Girls posters in the Merrill-Cazier Library collection.

From Helmond:

Art is a means of social criticism. Taking this fact as a starting point, the exhibition Resilient Rebelsexplores forms of protest, large and small, through the eyes of modern artists. The title of the exhibition Resilient Rebels refers to decisiveness, recovery, hope and resilience, and different strategies of resistance.

Artists: Bambi van Balen together with OTION/Tools for Action, Black Archives, Matthijs de Bruijne, Jota Castro, Rossel Chaslie, Tina Farifteh, Alicia Framis, Afsaneh Ghafarian Rabe’I, Golshan, Gluklya, Johan Grimonprez, Guerilla Girls, HIMMELSBACH, Käthe Kollwitz, Anouk Kruithof, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Sarah van Sonsbeeck.

https://museumhelmond.nl/en/exhibitions/resilient-rebels/

From Lehman Press Release:

The women who loom large on canvases, in photographs, prints, sculpture and collage in Framing the Female Gaze vitally connect us to political and social issues and to the cultural and social discriminations that women experience now. The works in this exhibition show how women artists today focus their gaze on both women and men. Artists are magicians: they seek subjects for their work from the past, then with new images change what we thought we knew. The artists in Framing the Female Gaze looked at the art of the 19th-century which marked the beginning of Modernism, of seeing and being seen as conscious subject matter.

The artists exhibiting work in Framing the Female Gaze include Lara Alcantara Lansberg, Lizzy Alejandro, Elise Ansel, Claudia Doring Baez, Cecily Brown, Elinor Carucci, Jordan Casteel, Bhasha Chakrabarti, Katie Commodore, Camille Eskell, Lalla Essaydi, Martha Edelheit, Rose Freymuth- Frazier, Scherezade Garcia, Kathleen Gilje, Guerrilla Girls, Eunice Golden, Jenna Gribbon, Mimi Gross, Hilary Harkness, Lewinale Havette, Vera Iliatova, Ayana V. Jackson, Cheyenne Julien, Fay Ku, Yushi Li (in collaboration with Steph Wilson), Shona McAndrew, Marilyn Minter, Jesse Mockrin, Christie Neptune, Deborah Ory and Ken Browar, Phyllis Gay Palmer, Cecilia Paredes, Celeste Rapone, Arlene Rush, Julia Santos Solomon, Sylvia Sleigh, Jessica Spence, Devorah Sperber, Mickalene Thomas, Sharon Wybrants, Judith Wyer, Allison Zuckerman.

From Tate Modern:

The shop is divided into two sections: one for contemplation, the other focusing on action. The rousing visual centrepiece is a wrap-around fly-poster wall created in the spirit of how the Guerrilla Girls display their work, which aims to inspire and represent multiple voices. Content highlights include a chalk blackboard inviting visitors to write their own slogans in response to the artist’s participatory work, Complaints Department, and a Guerrilla Girls-themed photobooth complete with giant sunglasses, inflatable bananas and masks for visitors to interact with. Video content from the collective’s archive, some of which has never been viewed publicly before, will be streamed on screens throughout the space.

Shop online at Tate.org

Guerrilla Girls Installation at FORMAT
With Corresponding Performances at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

FORMAT has announced its 2023 return including an incredible lineup featuring Alanis Morissette, LCD Soundsystem, Leon Bridges, Modest Mouse, Jamie XX, Tash Sultana, Big Wild, Little Simz, Bob Moses, Poolside, Channel Tres, Paul Cauthen and many more, along with unique performances, installations and art experiences from world-renowned artists including Guerrilla Girls, JR’s Inside Out Project, Jeremy Deller, Ragnar Kjartansson, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed. The otherworldly three-day celebration converging the most influential minds in art, tech and music will take place September 22-24, 2023, at the Momentary in Bentonville, AR, in the heart of the Ozarks. 

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Women Reframe American Landscape: Susie Barstow & Her Circle/ Contemporary Practices is a two-part exhibition and accompanying publication illuminating the artistic contributions and perspectives of women. The project will reinsert the accomplished 19th-century American artist Susie Barstow (1836-1923) into the history of the Hudson River School of landscape painting and present work by contemporary artists who expand and challenge how we think about “land” and “landscape” today.

It is the first retrospective of Barstow’s magnificent paintings, despite successfully exhibiting and selling her work during her lifetime. The presentation includes additional artworks by artists in her circle: Julie Hart Beers, Fidelia Bridges, Charlotte Buell Coman, Eliza Greatorex, Mary Josephine Walters, and Laura Woodward. The internationally acclaimed contemporary artists include: Teresita Fernández, Guerrilla Girls, Marie Lorenz, Tanya Marcuse, Mary Mattingly, Ebony G. Patterson, Anna Plesset, Jean Shin, Wendy Red Star, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Cecilia Vicuña, Kay WalkingStick, and Saya Woolfalk.

We’ll be giving a talk at Mass College of Art, Boston

MORE INFO TO COME

WOW: Women of the World Festival, Athens

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center presents “The Art of Behaving Badly”, as part of the WOW Athens 2023.  “The Art of Behaving Badly” exhbition includes 38 pieces from their work (posters, actions, stickers, postcards, videos) created by the Guerrilla Girls that raise awareness of discriminatory practices in the visual arts.
Curation: Erato Koutsoudaki, architect - museologist

Artist Talk: April 3, GNO Stavros Niarchos Hall

Guerrilla Girls. Portfolio Compleat, 1985 - 2016 é unha adaptación para o CGAC da exhibición producida polo Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC).

As accións e obras de Guerrilla Girls intentan contrarrestar as tradicións patriarcais e os seus comportamentos no ámbito cultural. O seu discurso, analítico e crítico, é reforzado mediante o uso da ironía e o sentido do humor, como se observa nas súas accións, informacións, discusións, debates ou exposicións. Con máis de trinta e cinco anos de existencia, este colectivo produciu multitude de pósteres, libros, adhesivos, proxectos de debuxo, edicións gráficas e revistas sobre o sexismo e a discriminación das mulleres no mundo das artes visuais, do cine e da cultura en xeral. Portfolio Compleat, definido polo propio colectivo como unha mostra da “conciencia do mundo da arte”, recolle todo este repertorio que se apropia da linguaxe visual do márketing publicitario para transmitir as súas mensaxes dunha forma directa. Nesta exposición amósase por primeira vez o último material producido por este colectivo que, como elas mesmas o definen, “non está listo para agradar”.

Guerrilla Girls: She Roars!

South Texas College Library Services and Art Department, in collaboration with community partners at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley – School of Interdisciplinary Programs and Community Engagement, International Museum of Art & Science, and McAllen Public Library, collectively present She Roars: A Series of Lectures, Workshops, and Exhibitions Celebrating Women’s Contributions to the Humanities. This 5-day program starts with a self-defense class taught by STC Kinesiology Instructor Rodrigo Martinez and includes four exhibitions, a documentary, story-time, and workshops and lectures by founding member of the 1985- present artist collective, The Guerrilla Girls and illustrator and author Angela Dominguez.

Artist Talk: March 7th, Bldg U

Tate Modern

Salisbury University Art Gallery

The Guerrilla Girls are an internationally-recognized collective of anonymous artists that adopt the names of deceased women artists to obscure their identities and keep the focus on the issues as they fight “for human rights for all people and all genders.” Founded in the 1980s as the self-dubbed “conscience of the art world” the groups uses intersectional feminism and humor to fight gender and ethnic bias as well as corruption in the art world and beyond. Their talk and exhibition, “The Art of Behaving Badly,” traces the history of their organization through their interventions and Public Service Announcements (PSAs) from 1985-2015.

Artist Talk: March 8th, GAC Assembly Hall

From the curator: For the MK&G, the Guerrilla Girls are developing a work that will take a critical look at the museum’s own collection. In the exhibition The F* word – Guerrilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design at the MK&G, the collective’s posters will form the starting point for a group show encompassing some 400 works dating from 1870 to the present day.

From the curator: Beyond the Streets London pays homage to the monumental moments from the worlds of graffiti, street art, hip-hop and punk rock as well as the artists who immortalised them. From painting trains to social activism, to the clothes we wear and the perception of underground art and culture - leading to a global creative revolution. BEYOND THE STREETS LONDON is a celebration of graffiti's core ethos of an innate desire for mark-making and challenging authority. By its very nature, graffiti is ephemeral, its own existence is temporary, but the culture and its rebellious spirit prevail.

Following blockbuster exhibitions in Los Angeles in 2018 and New York in 2019, BEYOND THE STREETS LONDON will be curated by Roger Gastman, noted graffiti historian and founder of BEYOND THE STREETS, in conjunction with a team of guest curators.

Subliminal Projects is pleased to present, Visual Language: The Art of Protest, a group exhibition and survey of the symbiotic relationship between art and activism. Visual Language is an ongoing project curated in collaboration with Coates & Scarry, that aims to investigate and spark dialogue about how art acts as a vehicle of communication.

Andrea Bowers (Vielmetter Los Angeles), Awanle Ayiboro Hawa Al (Emergeast), Barbara Kruger (Spruth Magers), Cey Adams, Cheryl Dunn, Christopher Martin, David Shrigley (Stephen Friedman Gallery), Ed Ruscha, El Seed, Emory Douglas,  Gary Taxali, Gordon Cheung, Guerrilla Girls, Hana Shahnavaz (Emergeast), Leila Pazooki (Emergeast), Lina Puerta, Maya Hayuk,  Pussy Riot (Nadya Tolokonnikova), Penny Byrne, Renee Cox, Robbie Conal, Ron English, Salah Elmur (Vigo Gallery), Shepard Fairey, Stan Squirewell (Claire Oliver Gallery), and Juana Valdez (Spinello Projects).

Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly

in House of Challenging Orders, Vienna Art Week

House of Challenging Orders: A condemned office building turns into the exhibition venue for the VIENNA ART WEEK and becomes a unique creative experimental space. On three floors and a total of 1,000 m2 , around 40 national and international artists and performers question existing orders, canons and systems and invite us to challenge our own preconceived opinions and concepts.

Guerrilla Girls present their exposing exhibition with the title “The Art Of Behaving Badly”.

Also check out, Guerrilla Girls GIG on, November 19, 4pm