Great art show

Creating the future
Contemporaries then and now

Paula Modersohn-Becker shared the goal of becoming an artist with numerous young women of her time. Living and working in an artists' colony offered them space for artistic development. Many of them supplemented their training with study visits to Paris, where they encountered the avant-garde there. The exhibition traces the lives of women artists around 1900, focusing on the close interrelationships between their artistic productivity and their social roles as women, wives and mothers. Contemporaries of today reflect on the acute relevance of these themes, including Anahita Razmi, a fellow of the Museumsverbund and Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, who makes references to women's struggle for self-determination in Iran.