Straying from the Line

The Schinkel Pavillon is a recently established Berlin art association with an internationally oriented programme. For this exhibition, artistic director Nina Pohl presented a selection of artistic positions created during the “fourth wave” of feminism. She compared and contrasted these contemporary approaches with radical pieces produced during the 1960s and 70s.
At the heart of the exhibition was an investigation of the role technologies play in our lives and how they affect our bodies. The feminist artists of the 1960s and 1970s were pioneers in the relatively young genres of performance art, video art and digital media. How do young artists of the Internet generation address such themes as body and gender? How has feminist discourse changed in the digital era with respect to self-performance, production and reproduction? Where do the positions of the 1960s and 1970s correlate with those today, and where do they differ?
As part of two accompanying interdisciplinary conferences, artists and theorists have discussed the prospect and significance of pre- and post-Internet feminism. The exhibition has been supplemented by contemporary performances and a film programme featuring numerous historical works.


Artistic director: Nina Pohl
Artists: Vito Acconci, Lynda Benglis, Jenna Bliss, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Teresa Burga, Tom Burr, Claude Cahun, Tony Cokes, Anna Daučíková, Nicole Eisenman, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Ellen Gallagher, Jef Geys, Guerilla Girls, Barbara Hammer, Eva Hesse, Irma Hünerfauth, Maria Lassnig, Leigh Ledare, Sarah Lucas, Alice Lex-Nerlinger, Lee Lozano, Ulrike Müller, Gabriele Münter, Anna Oppermann, Kembra Pfahler, Charlotte Posenenske, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Aura Rosenberg & Mike Kelley, Betye Saar, Heji Shin, Jack Smith, Diamond Stingliy, Elaine Sturtevant, Martine Syms, Rosemarie Trockel, Anna Uddenberg, Raphaela Vogel, Constantina Zavitzanos & Park McArthur.