BELGIAN WOMEN ARTISTS 1970 - 1990
In 1970 the feminist second wave explodes in Belgium. Women artists are starting to make feminist art. They experiment with new media such as photography, video, film, installations. They work with new materials such as rubber, plexiglass, textiles and threads. Evelyne Axell paints herself as a sexually liberated woman and Liliane Vertessen creates photocollages with neons, in which she explores her own body and poses. Chantal Akerman is a filmmaker and her film « Jeanne DIelman, quai du commerce 23, 1080 Bruxelles » (1973) focuses on a Brussels housewife. In 2022, the latter film is being nominated as “best film 2022-2032”. Lili Dujourie and Tapta surprise by their innovative “sculptures” and “installations” in textile, cords and rubber. Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven experiments with drawings of sexy women on plexiglass. Marthe Wéry explores abstraction in her paintings. Jacqueline Mesmaeker makes playful works, in which she inspires herself in Marcel Broodthaers. Marianne Berenhaut is a postmodernist and uses art as therapy for her traumas of the holocaust.