Shannon Bool The Lipps. 24 Horizontal Pouts, 2013 24 painted photos Collection Philara Düsseldorf Broken Pole, 2010 Brass with nickel Courtesy Galerie Kadel Willborn Photo: Tobias Hübel

Shannon Bool, “The Lipps”. 24 Horizontal Pouts, 2013
24 painted photos. Collection Philara Düsseldorf
“Broken Pole”, 2010
Brass with nickel. Courtesy Galerie Kadel Willborn
Photo: Tobias Hübel

 

The group exhibition “Girls Can Tell” is currently on view at GAK – Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst in Breman, Germany.  The exhibition displays works by a generation of artists born after 1970 that exemplify the shifted interaction with feminist issues in contemporary art. There are often feminist undertones, and at time feminist issues are expressed subliminally through the use of materials and techniques and employ a certain elegance of form and light aesthetic in order “to use these weapons.” The artists include Dirk Bell, Juliette Blightman, Shannon Bool, Kajsa Dahlberg, Nina Hoffmann, Verna Issel, Maria Loboda, Anna Ostoya, Marlo Pascual, Seb Patane, Jeremy Shaw, Dirk Stewen, and Susanna M. Winterling.

 

 

Dirk Bell Eyelashes From Inside The Aquarium, 2013 Multipart mixed media installation on wood; ledge, table, mirror, plaster cast, branch;God Help The Be(a)st In Me (mixed media on canvas (repainted find); chair) Collection of Blake Byrne, Los Angeles Marlo Pascual Untitled, 2011 C-Print Courtesy Saatchi Gallery, London Photo: Tobias Hübel

Dirk Bell, “Eyelashes From Inside The Aquarium”, 2013
Multipart mixed media installation on wood; ledge, table, mirror, plaster cast, branch;God Help The Be(a)st In Me (mixed media on canvas (repainted find); chair)
Collection of Blake Byrne, Los Angeles
Marlo Pascual, “Untitled”, 2011
C-Print. Courtesy Saatchi Gallery, London
Photo: Tobias Hübel

Maria Loboda Curious and cold epicurean young ladies, 2011 platinum coated silver flask, hydrogen Courtesy the artist and SCHLEICHER/LANGE Photo: Tobias Hübel

Maria Loboda, “Curious and cold epicurean young ladies”, 2011.
platinum coated silver flask, hydrogen
Courtesy the artist and SCHLEICHER/LANGE
Photo: Tobias Hübel

 

The works included in “Girls Can Tell” have feminist undertones, and at time feminist issues are expressed subliminally through the use of materials and techniques and employ a certain elegance of form and light aesthetic in order “to use these weapons.” Approaching this field from diverse perspectives, the works presented in Girls can tell traverse a terrain of media which encompasses painting, photography, drawing, installation, ready-made work, film and sculpture.  “Girls can tell” is accompanied by an extensive series of lectures, developed by Yvonne Bialek, that will reflect the assumption of the exhibition by different perspectives from art history.

 

This exhibition is on view through February 2nd, 2014.

 

For more information on “Girls Can Tell” visit GAK -Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst in Breman, Germany.