Livstid. Modne Kvindere i Kunsten (Lifetime: Mature Women in Art)

Despite a focus on the representation of women in recent years, one aspect remains overlooked: aging. The exhibition “Lifetime: Mature Women in Art” builds further on the re-examination of the Modern Breakthrough’s women artists and tells the story about, what happened once they became old. The exhibition demonstrates how aging, and especially the older women artists themselves, seldom received the same level of recognition and respect as they enjoyed as young women artists. Therefore, this exhibition centers on both the artists’ lives and their aesthetic of aging, offering a more nuanced art historical narrative about aging and gender.  The exhibition is based on the concept of the U.S. art historian Alice M. Rudy Price, who wrote her Ph.D. dissertation on Anna Ancher. It is accompanied by a research-based catalog with contributions by Alice Price, Carina Rech, Marie Laulund, Yvette Brackman and Pernille Rom Bruun. After Ribe (13.june.26-20.sept.26), the exhibition moves to Skovgaard Museet in Viborg (10.oct.26-7.feb.27) and then to Bornholms Kunstmuseum (8.mar.26-26.sept.27). The exhibition is funded by: Ny Carlsbergfondet, Augustinus Fonden, William Demant Fonden, A.P. Møller Fonden, Beckett-Fonden, Hoffmann og Husmans Fond, Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond.