Exhibition — Oct 5, 2024 until Jan 26, 2025

The work of Miriam Cahn (1949, Basel, Switzerland) is rooted in feminist thinking and activism. Her artistic breakthrough was through performative drawing she practiced in the early 1980s. Cahn’s oeuvre, in the meantime, encompasses writing, painting, sculpture, found images, photography, and film.

Responding affectively to the past and present genocidal wars, destruction of human habitat and displacement of entire populations, Cahn depicts bodies in extreme states; torn by violence, forced into exile, guided by hope, experiencing pain—and open to pleasure. Miriam Cahn has exhibited worldwide, including her much-discussed contributions at documenta 14 (2017), the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) and a solo show at Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2023). The Stedelijk has recently acquired two paintings and will now present the artist’s first substantial exhibition in the Netherlands.

Artwork by Miriam Cahn
Miriam Cahn, 'Dentata', 2020, collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Acquired with the generous support of Freddy Insinger and the benefactors of the Stedelijk Museum Fonds