Booklist : A Chronological List of International Exhibitions on women artists and feminist art practices

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This page offers only a Chronological List of International Exhibitions on women artists/feminist art practices

'International' is defined by selected contemporary women artists from more than two countries and those with a feminist curatorial thesis. 
Most, but not all, have exhibition catalogues.

For a list of books and catalogues by region and or country of feminist art and women artists, or by author's name and exhibition title
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2008

The Furious Gaze (Monthermoso Cultural Centre, Victoria-Gasteiz, Spain) curators: Xavier Arakistan and Maura Reilly

2007  

Global Feminisms (London and New York: Merrell and Brooklyn Museum, 2007) curators: Linda Nochlin and Maura Reilly 

WACK! : Art and the Feminist Revolution (Los Angeles: MOCA, 2007) curator: Connie Butler

Gender Battle/ A batalla dos xeneros (Spain, Santiago de Compostela) curator: Juan Vicente Aliaga

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Spain, Bilbao: Musee de Belles Artes de Bilbao) curator: Xavier Arakistan

Cyberfem: Feminisms on the Electronic Landscape (Spain: Castello: Espai d'Art Contemporaini de Castello) curator: Ana Martinez-Collado

2006

Passaggi a Sud Est: sguardi di artiste tra storie, memorie, attraversamenti XII Biennale Donna (Italy, Ferrara, PAC Palazzo Massari, 2006) curator: Emanuela De Cecco

Cooling Out : On the Paradox of Feminism (Switzerland,Basel, Kunsthaus Baselland; Ireland, Cork: Lewis Gluckmann Gallery, Germany, Luneburg: Halle Fuer Kunst) curators: Rene Zechlin, Sabine Schaschl-Cooper, Bettina Steinbrugge  (publication: Switzerland, Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2008)

It’s Time for Action (There’s no Option) – About Feminism   (Zurich: Migros Museum fuer Gegenswartskunst) curator: Heike Munder  (publication Switzerland, Zurich: JRP Ringier,2007)

2005

Altre Lilith (Italy, Frascati, Scuderie Aldobrandini, 2005) curators: Rosetta Gozzini and Maria Luisa Trevisan

Life Actually : Museum of Tokyo Annual 2005 exhibition catalogue (Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT) 15 Jan-21 March 2005) curator: Michiko Kasahara, Text in Japanese and English.

2004

First International Women's Art Festival in Taiwan: Women, Art and Technology: Collected Essays (Taiwan: Kaoshiung Museum of Fine Arts: August 2004) curator: Elsa Hsiang-chun Chen

Lilith. L'Aspetto Femminile della Creazione (Italy, Frascati, Scuderie Aldobrandini, 2004) curators: Rosetta Gozzini and Maria Luisa Trevisan

Borderline Cases: Women on the Borderlines (Japan, Tokyo, A.R.T., 2004) curators: Feminist Art Action Brigade

Reaffiliations: Sightings/Wahrnemungen 2004 (touring, Albania, Macedonia, Slovenia) curator: Claudia Maria Luenig

2003

2002

Alter ego: 35 Artistes contemporaines a Luxembourg (Luxembourg, Musee d'Histoire de la ville de Luxembourg, 2002)

Female Geographies (London: Austrian Cultural Forum, 2002) curator: Rosemarie Reitsamer

2001

Capital and Gender (Republic of Macedonia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, 2001) curator: Suzana Milevska

2000 

Text and Sub-Text (curator/editor Binghui Huangfu) (exhibition catalogue, 2 vols., Singapore: Lasalle-SIA University, 2000)

  <Hers> Video as Female Terrain (Vienna and New York: Springerin/ Sterischer Herbst Festival, 2000) curator: Stella Rollig

Isabelle Bribosia, Pascale Wiedermann, Pascalle Willi ...Entre Femmes: Isabelle Bribosia, Pascale Wiedermann, Pascalle Willi (exhibition catalogue: Luxembourg: Casino Luxembourg, 2000)

Angela Dimitrikaki, Pam Skelton, Mare Tralla (eds) Private Views: Spaces and Gender in Contemporary Art from Britain and Estonia (exhibition in Estonia, publication London: Women's Art Library, 2000 with IB Tauris)

Cross Female (Germany, Berlin, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, 2000) curator: Barbara Hoffer and Valeria Schulte-Fishedich

1999

Figure, Sculpture, Female - Forms of Representation of the Female Body (Germany: Chemitz,1999. Touring exhibition catalogue from Linz, Austria).

1998

16 Rippen (Germany, Berlin, Schwule Museum, 1998) curator: Barbara Stauss

Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation (USA, Cambridge, Massachussetts, MIT List Center, 1998) curator: Whitney Chadwick

1997

Vraiment: Féminisme et Art (France, Grenoble: Le Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain,1997)

Difficult Territory: a postfeminist project (Australia, Sydney: Artspace and Woolloomooloo,Visual Art Centre, 1997) curator: Kristen Elsby

Crosscurrents / Krysninger (exhibition Indian/Norwegian artists, Norway: Riks-utstillinger/National Touring Exhibitions, 1997) curator:Jennifer Lloyd 

Ein Stuck vom Himmel / Some Kind of Heaven (Germany: Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nurnberg, 1997 : London, South London Art Gallery, 1998)

1996

Dialogue with the Other (Denmark: Odense, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik,1996) curator: Lene Burkhardt.

Gender Beyond Memory: The Works of Contemporary Women Artists (Japan: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Sept 5- October 27 1996)

Kroppen Som Membran / Body as Membrane (Denmark: Odense, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik,1996) curators Kirsten Justesen,Valie Export 

Inside the Visible (Boston: ICA/ MIT: Kanaal Art Foundation, 1996 and Touring to London, Whitechapel and Australia, Perth ICA, 1996) curator: Catherine de Zegher

Zij-Sporen : Kunst op het Spoor (Belgium, Antwerp, Gynaika, 1996) curator: Marijke Seresia

1995

Auf den Leib Geschrieben (Austria, Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, 1995) curators: Brigitte Huck & Monika Faber

Cherchez la Femme (Germany, Hamburg: Kunsthaus, 1995) curator: Ursula Panhams-Buhler

Das Schwere und das Liechte : Kunstlerinnen des 20 Jahrhunderts, Skulpturen, Objekte, Installationen (Germany, Cologne: Dumont, 1995) curator: Angela Ziesche

Karo Dame: Konstructive,Konkrete und Radiakale Kunst von Frauen von 1914 bis Heute (Germany, Baden: Lars Muller, 1995) curator: Beat Wismer

City of Women, Slovenia 1st Annual Festival, Ljubljana ....(ongoing annual series, continues 1995-2008)

Stereo-Tip (Slovenia, Ljubljana: Mestna Galerija, 1995) curator: Alexander Bassin

Women & Paint, (Canada, Saskatoon, Mendel Art Gallery, 1995) curator: Judith Mastai

Womanifesto I, Thailand, Bangkok (ongoing bi-annual series)

1994

Oh Boy! It’s a Girl! Feminismen in der Kunst (Germany, Munchen Kunstverein, 1994/5)

Bad Girls (USA:New York: NMOCA, 1994) curator: Marcia Tucker 

Bad Girls West (USA: Los Angeles, 1994) curator: Marcia Tanner

Sense and sensibility: women artists and minimalism in the 1990s (USA:New York : Museum of Modern Art,1994) curator: Lynn Zelevansky.

1993

Die Frau als Bild: Der Weibliche Korper in der Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts (Germany, Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1993) curator: Silvia Eiblmayr

Regards de Femmes Musee d’Art Moderne (France, Liege, 1993)

The Subject of Rape (USA: New York, Whitney Museum, 1993) curators: Pamela Gruininger Perkins & S. Schwartz

Zwischen Anpassung und Widerspruch Beitrage zur Frauenforschung am Osteuropa (Germany, Berlin: Harrassowitz Verlag/ Institut der Frein Universitat, 1993) curators: Uta Grab Muller, Monika Katz

1992

Women's Laughter Ten Years After (USA: Middletown, Connecticut Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, and touring to 5 other US venues) curator: Jo-Anna Isaak

1991

Parler Femme (The Netherlands: Amsterdam:Museum Fodor/Stedlijk, exhibition catalogue, 1991/1992)

1990  

Artistas Espanolas en Europa (Germany: Stuttgart: Haus der Wirtschaft, 1990)

1989

1988

Cartax Carta : 80 European artists (Italy: Duna: Associazone Culturale Adorente IAWA, 1988) curator: Simona Weller

Einfach den Gefahren ins Auge Sehen: Kunstlerinnen im Gesprach (Vienna, Cologne, Graz : Bohlau Verlag,1988) curator: Heidemarie Seblatnig

1987

1986    

Edith Almhofer Performance Art: die Kunst zu Leben (Austria: Vienna: Bohlau, 1986)

1985

Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn: Aktuelle Kunst von Frauen Texte und Dokumentation (Austria: Vienna and Germany:Munchen, 1985) curators: Sylvia Eiblmayr,Valie Export, Monika Prischl-Maier

Difference: On Representation And Sexuality (UK: London: ICA, 1985-86: USA: Chicago: Renaissance Society,1985)

1984

I Biennale Donna Figure dallo Sfondo (Italy: Ferrara, first in a series of Biennales dedicated to women artists, XIII was 2008)

1983

La Femme et l'Art (Switzerland: Premiere Triennale, Le Landeron).

1982

The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter (USA) curator: Jo-Anna Isaak discussed in Isaak Feminism and Contemporary Art: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter (London: Routledge, 1996)

Marie Rose Arbour Art et Feminisme (Canada: Quebec, Musse d’Art Contemporain, Montreal & Ministere des Affaires Culturelles,1982)

Malerinnen auf dem Weg ins. 20 Jahrhundert: Kunstgeschichte also sozialgeschichte (Germany, Cologne, DuMont, 1982) curator: Renate Berger

Sense and Sensibility in Feminist Art Practice (UK: Nottingham: Midlands Art Group) curators: Carol Jones, video: Tina Keane.

1981

LA London (USA: New York: Franklin Furnace) curators: Susan Hiller and Suzanne Lacy

Typisch Frau (Germany: Bonn Kunstverein and Galerie Magers) curators Margarethe Jochimsen and Philomene Magers

1980

S.Kent and J.Morreau Women's Images of Men (exhibition at UK: London, ICA in 1980: book, London: Writers and Readers, 1985)

Issue: Social Strategies by Women Artists (London: ICA,1980) curator: Lucy Lippard

Speaking Volumes: Women Artists Books (USA: New York: AIR Gallery) curator: Lucy Lippard

1979

Gesa Rautenberg Umrisse: Bilder, Objekte,Videos,Filme von Kunstlerinnin (Germany: Kiel Kunsthalle,1979)

Feministische Kunst International (The Netherlands: Den Haag, Gemeente Museum & Amsterdam, de Appel, touring 1979-1981)

Umrisse: Bilder, Objekte,Videos,Filme von Kunstlerinnin (Germany, Kiel Kunsthalle, 1979) curator: Gesa Rautenberg

1978

Both Sides Now: An International Exhibition integrating Feminism and Leftist Politics (USA: Chicago: Artemsia Gallery)

1977

Kunstlerinnen International,1877-1977: Frauen in der Kunst (Germany: Berlin, NGBK and Schloss Charlottenburg,1977) curators: Frauen in der Kunst

Feministo/Portrait of the Artist as Housewife (UK: London: ICA, 1977)

Exposicion de obras plasticas con montivo del primer simposio mexicano centroamerican de investigacion sobre le mujer (Mexico: Museo de Arte, Institutio Nacional de Bellas Artes)

1976

Combative Arts, Profiles and Visions: An Exhibition of Women Artists from Paris (USA: New York: AIR Gallery) curator: Aline Dallier

The Feminine Contribution to the Avant-Garde of the 20th Century (Italy: Milan) curator: Leo Vergine

Intorno all'ideologia: Art and Feminism (Italy, Rome: Palazzo Esposizioni) curator: Achille Bonito Oliva

Frauen Machen Kunst (Germany, Bonn: Galerie Magers) curator: Philomene Magers

1975

Magna Feminismus: Kunst und Kreativitat (Austria: Vienna, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, 1975-76) curator: Valie Export

Magma: Rassegna internazionale di donne artiste (Italy: Brescia: Catesllo Oldofredi, touring to Florence, Ferrara, Verona during 1975-1977) curator: Romana Loda

Frauen-Kunst-Neue Tendenzen (Austria: Innsbruck: Galerie Kreitzinger,1975) (see Heute Kunst vol 9. Feb-March 1975)

Woman as Viewer (Canada: Winnipeg Art Callery) curator: Committee for Women Artists, Winnipeg

XX Kvindeudstillingen Pa Chalottenborg (XX Women's Pictures in Charlottenburg) (Denmark, Copenhagen: Charlottenburg Exhibition Hall) curators: Rejsning (Rising) women's group. 

1974

1973

c. 7500  (USA: Valencia: California Institute of Arts, 1973-1974) curator: Lucy Lippard

1972

First international Festival of Women's Films (USA: New York, Fifth Avenue Cinema)

1971

1970

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