It's Time for Action (There's no Option). About Feminism

The exhibition title “It’s Time For Action (There's No Option)” quotes Yoko Ono’s song of the same name recorded in 2000 and stands for the common attitude shared by the female artists of the group exhibition. The exhibition has gathered works of various generations that have distinguished themselves by dint of a self confident, non conformist position. From the beginning of her artistic activity in the early 1960s, before the official term feminism became currency, the Japanese artist Yoko Ono dealt with gender specific role patterns and rebelled against the outmoded hierarchical and patriarchal structures. Nonetheless she avoided the term feminism – even during its heyday in the 1970s. But she fought, as with many of the artists whose works are exhibited here, for the abolishing and deconstruction of boundaries in artistic, societal and political areas, and pleaded in a Beauvoirian sense for the acceptance of many identities.

Curated by Heike Munder