From October 11, 2024, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting a comprehensive retrospective of the Italian artist Carol Rama. It is the first major exhibition of her works in Germany and will run until February 2, 2025, showing around 120 works from various creative phases of the exceptional artist.
Carol Rama (1918-2015) is one of the most important, yet long underestimated artists of modernism. Her works, which deal with fundamental human themes such as sexuality, madness, illness and death, paved the way for today's feminist art as early as the 1930s. Rama's work is characterized by a great love of experimentation: She worked independently of artistic trends and constantly reinvented herself in her more than 70 years of creative work.
The exhibition offers a comprehensive insight into Rama's diverse oeuvre. In addition to her early, now legendary watercolors, the Schirn is showing abstract paintings, surrealist collages and material paintings as well as works created from everyday objects and industrial materials. Rama's unconventional way of working, with which she challenged traditional art forms and questioned social conventions, is particularly fascinating.
Rama's life and art were closely intertwined. Her works not only reflect her personal experiences, but also her confrontation with a male-dominated art world. The exhibition also focuses on her unique studio in Turin, which was itself considered a Gesamtkunstwerk.
The Schirn Kunsthalle is presenting the exhibition in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Bern.
