Women in Abstraction

5 May 2021 — 23 Aug 2021 at Centre Georges Pompidou · Paris

Women in Abstraction. Another History of Abstraction in the 20th Century was a major exhibition of 20th-century abstract art created by women artists. The exhibition presented more than five hundred works across a wide range of artistic media from over one hundred international women artists. Spanning various periods of modern art from the mid-19th to the 20th century, it was first exhibited in 2021 at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and later travelled to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the West Bund Museum in Shanghai.

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Centre Georges Pompidou · Paris

The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in Paris, France. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of Richard…

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