Kitty Kraus
Untitled, 2008
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin
Madame Realism: ‘interior avant-garde’ at Marres ‘Madame Realism’, a group exhibition where the interior takes a central place, presents works of exclusively female artists in the historical and domestic rooms of the Marres Centre for Contemporary Art, Maastricht
12 March 2011 until 5 June 2011
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Source: Marres Centre for Contemporary Art, Maastricht
With the exhibition ‘À l’intérieur’ in 2006, Marres Centre for Contemporary Art of Maastricht introduced the position of the Dandy in relation to the 19th-century desire for beauty as a new metaphysics. 5 years later, ‘Madame Realism’ aspires to provide the commonly male position of the dandy – this idiosyncratic ‘home curator’ – with a counterpart, by way of focusing on the work of female artists inspired by the interior. However, in Madame Realism, the interior is approached as a reflection of the outside world. The show features works by Kitty Kraus, Eva Berendes, Bonnie Camplin, Melissa Gordon, Ruth Buchanan, Pernille Kapper Williams, Annette Kelm, Janette Laverrière, Linder, Hanne Lippard, Josephine Pryde, Michaela Meise, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Clare Stephenson, Lina Viste Grønli, Jessica Warboys and Amelie von Wulffen.
The works present in the show do not aspire to improve the house orits domesticity, but instead want to radically change the idea of home. Theworks in the exhibition are inspired by (designs for) the interior, made forthe interior, can be associated with the ‘inner life’ or are otherwise challengingto be seen in the context of the interior. In this exhibition, theinterior is approached – physically, artistically, literary or mentally – as adomain of emancipation and dissidence.
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