Marlene Dumas

Close-Up at Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

19 September 2021–2 January 2022

 

Group exhibition

 

Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Mendersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton

 

The exhibition shows works by female artists whose work represents outstanding positions within the history of modernism from 1870 to the present day. It is the period at the beginning of which female artists in Europe and America were first able to work professionally on a broad basis. 

 

Dumas is one of the nine female artists in the exhibition who share a focus on the depiction of people, portraits and self-portraits.

 

 

Visit the Fondation Beyeler website for details

 

 

Installation views: CLOSE-UP, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/ Basel, 2021. Photo: © Mark Niedermann
19 Sep 2021