Foundation Beyeler’s “Close Up” Exhibition Features Nine Female Artists

The Foundation Beyeler “Close Up” exhibition gives attendees a chance to study the “female gaze” back through time to the early 1800s, when women were beginning to be “allowed” to paint. Each of nine artists —Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman, and Elizabeth Peyton—have portraits showing in separate rooms. This gives viewers the opportunity to experience the timeline of history in a very personal way, and to consider how portraits produced by women artists might be different from those made by some perhaps more famous men.

The exhibition runs 9/19/21~1/2/22 at Baselstrasse 101, CH-4125 Riehen/Basel. For those not likely to travel, all of the images can be seen online under the “media” page of the website. Plus, there are nine short films online in which people talk about each of the entries.

Four thumbnails from the online media files describing the exhibition.