Abstract
In 2015, Denmark’s national gallery, the Statens Museum for Kunst, revisited the profound impact of feminism on the Danish art scene during the 1960s and 1970s with the major exhibition What’s Happening? The show not only gave feminist art an authoritative stamp of approval, but it also underscored feminism as a crucial component of the emerging concept of the contemporary. The emancipatory aspirations of the feminist art of the period were nonetheless contextualized through the works’ relationship with canonical, male-dominated neo-avant-gardes and thus institutionalized within a conventional patriarchal framework. The essay aims to illuminate to an international audience the visionary feminist art projects of the period while also exploring the issues concerning the curation of “second-wave” feminist art and how it has been problematically instrumentalized in shaping our understanding of the contemporary.
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