Kobro & Strzemiński ­ New Art in Turbulent Times

We are pleased to con­tin­ue our long-stand­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion with Dr. Iris Müller-West­er­mann. With her as the new direc­tor of the Mod­er­na Museet in Malmö, we have tak­en on the task of cre­at­ing the upcom­ing exhi­bi­tion ​“KOBRO & STRZEMIŃS­KI: New Art in Tur­bu­lent Times.” This exhi­bi­tion, too, can be seen as a con­tin­u­a­tion of a series on idio­syn­crat­ic and fem­i­nine artist biogra­phies. Togeth­er with Dr. Iris Müller-West­er­mann, we have already real­ized the exhi­bi­tions on Louise Bour­geois, Hilma af Klint, and Lee Lozano at the Mod­er­na Museet in Stockholm.

The cre­ative phase of Katarzy­na Kobro (1898−1951) and Władysław Strzemińs­ki (1893−1952) took place dur­ing a tense and tur­bu­lent peri­od: World War I, the Octo­ber Rev­o­lu­tion in Rus­sia, and the hor­rif­ic Sec­ond World War. Kobro and Strzemińs­ki exper­i­ment­ed in very dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines, not only sculp­ture and paint­ing, but also archi­tec­ture, stage design, and graph­ic design. This is pre­cise­ly what makes their work rich, but also what makes exhibit­ing it a spe­cial challenge.