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Exhibitions

Does gender matter? Making Modernism, at the Royal Academy, reviewed

26 November 2022

9:00 AM

26 November 2022

9:00 AM

Making Modernism

Royal Academy, until 12 February 2023

The catalogue to Making Modernism opens with an acknowledgment from the Royal Academy’s first female president, Rebecca Salter, that in the past it has overlooked women artists. To compensate, it has bundled seven – four headliners and three of their lesser-known contemporaries – into this one show.

Excluded from official art schools and reliant on private tuition and ‘ladies’ academies’, these seven women escaped the feminine curse of the three ‘Ks’ – Kinder, Küche, Kirche (children, kitchen and church) – to forge independent careers in Germany before the first world war.

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