Unbound

Unbound

This first European survey will examine the essential role of women artists from Japan in the global postwar era and across the transformative decades that followed. Focusing on a period of significant social change, the exhibition will offer an opportunity to encounter modes of artistic expression that emerged in Japan and resonated across its worldwide communities. Drawing from the artists’ personal lives, creative resilience and transnational activism, the exhibition will bring together works by Atsuko Tanaka, Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono, Fujiko Nakaya, Tomie Ohtake, Taeko Tomiyama and Yoshiko Shimada, among many others – some of which have rarely been shown outside of Japan. Organised by Mudam in collaboration with Lenbachhaus, Munich, this comprehensive overview will reimagine the development of various transnational art histories from the 1950s to the 1990s through a contemporary lens.

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