frauen museum wiesbaden

The exhibition "Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly" marks the start of a series of anniversary exhibitions celebrating the 40th anniversary of the frauen museum wiesbaden last year.

In 1984, the exhibition "An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture" opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which claimed to bring together the most important contemporary positions in the world. Only 13 women were among the 169 selected positions. Furthermore, all of the exhibitors were white and came from the USA or Europe. Against this backdrop, a group of activists formed to denounce the serious, structural inequality of women and people of color in the art world: the Guerrilla Girls.

They counted how many solo exhibitions by women there were in the major museums in the USA, how many female artists were hanging in commercial galleries and what they earned. The Guerilla Girls disseminated the sobering results on now world-famous posters and flyers. On their most iconic poster, for example, they asked whether women had to be naked to enter the Met Museum, as only 5% of the exhibits were artists, but 85% of the nudes were women.
The art of the Guerrilla Girls does not stop at Hollywood, pop culture or politics. In order to maintain their anonymity and be able to act freely, the members wear gorilla masks in public and act under the pseudonyms of historical female artists such as Frida Kahlo or Shigeko Kubota.
In this special exhibition, over 30 posters and films provide an overview of their work, which is still incomparable today.

The lives of women in the past, present and future are at the heart of the work of the award-winning, culturally and historically oriented frauen museum wiesbaden, which was founded in 1984.

Photo: frauen museum wiesbaden, guerrilla girls

2for1 tickets for the exhibition "Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly" at the frauen museum wiesbaden (regular € 7, reduced € 5; free admission for children up to 14 years)

until 6.4.2025 (opening hours: Wed + Thu & Sat + Sun, 12-5pm; closed Mon, Tue & Fri)

frauen museum wiesbaden, Wörthstr. 5, Wiesbaden

Download the CITY CARD voucher (yellow star), print it out and hand it in at the museum ticket desk when you enter.