Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition

Exhibition at the Kunstmuseum, Bern, 22 October 2021 - 13 February 2022;
at the Menil Collection, Houston, 25 March - 18 September 2022;
at the MoMA, New York, 30 October 2022 - 4 March 2023

"Nobody will give you freedom. You have to take it." Over the course of her protean career, Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) produced witty, unconventional bodies of work that defy neat categorizations of medium, style and subject matter.

This exhibition catalogue surveys 200 works from the Swiss artist's precocious debut in 1930s Paris, through her post-World War II artistic development, which included engagements with international Pop, Nouveau Réalisme and Conceptual art, and up to her death in 1985. Essays examine the artist's body of work, and her active role in shaping the narrative of her life and art.