A major survey exhibition of Carolee Schneemann’s work looks at the artist’s masterful experimentations, across mediums of performance, installation, film and multimedia.

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Schneemann’s art actions laid bare the continuity between the female body, feminist writing, and sociopolitical acts of protest.

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Across six decades’ worth of performance, film, photography, drawing, sculpture, installation, artist’s books––and, yes, some painting––she always maintained that the eye and hand of Schneemann the painter could be discerned: in her work’s intimate tactility, in its attentive treatment of color and form, and often also in the literal presence of paints or painterly apparatus.

This must have something to do with how much of herself Schneemann seems to put into her work. Across film, performance, painting and installation, she promises access to her domestic life, her relationships, her body.

This exhibition was selected as part of London Oomph, a roundup of the best shows in town during October 2022.

Few artists have had as radical an impact on feminist thought and art than multimedia and performance artist Carolee Schneemann.

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This collection gathers six decades of work from the late experimental artist, including paintings, multimedia installations and films, to shed new light on Schneemann’s ideas about the body, war and more.

But the tides are turning thanks to her current landmark show at the Barbican Centre, Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics, her first retrospective in the United Kingdom and the first major presentation of her work since her death in 2019. Providing a long-awaited look into the full span of her prolific six-decade-long practice, it showcases her most iconic performances alongside lesser-known chapters of her revolutionary career.

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One of her greatest, most enduring skills was the ability to take the female body, as pure flesh, and to transform it into something powerful and illuminating rather than demeaning or depressing

For before Feminism was even a thing, she was breaking artistic and social boundaries.

Body Politics, a comprehensive retrospective of Carolee Schneemann’s work, gives an intense account of the versatile American artist’s vision and art

On the occasion of Carolee Schneemann’s survey at the Barbican Art Gallery, Cathy Wade looks back at the artist’s 1973 kinetic painting ‘Up to and Including Her Limits’

Body Politics is much more than an overdue retrospective and is a must-see not just for existing fans of Carolee Schneemann. With a career spanning six decades, Schneemann has been a major influence on generations of artists, making a lasting mark in particular with ground-breaking performances that ensured her position within the feminist art canon.

As a new retrospective opens at the Barbican in London, four artists, writers and editors speak on Carolee Schneemann’s playful, pioneering artistic legacy

For Carolee Schneemann, the process of creating art was just as important as the finished product, a notion that connects over 50 years of the artist’s work captured in the new Barbican retrospective Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics, running until January 2023. 

Schneemann was inspirational, confrontational and joyously excessive, pulling art from her vagina and writhing naked through molasses and wallpaper paste. This thrilling show captures the sheer scope of a phenomenal artist

The Barbican Art Gallery is staging a survey of the late pioneering performance artist, including more than 300 works ranging from early paintings and sculptural assemblages to films and installations

She staged an event even Duchamp said was messy, filmed herself having sex, unrolled a script from her vagina – and took art away from canvas and into the stuff of life itself

On the occasion of Carolee Schneemann’s survey at the Barbican Art Gallery, Cathy Wade looks back at the artist’s 1973 kinetic painting ‘Up to and Including Her Limits’

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The exhibition of the year is here, plus we have South Korean pop culture, a Sudanese women’s champion, decoded Egyptian hieroglyphs, Zaha Hadid’s ‘yonic stadium’ and a rare showing for the ‘American Turner’

Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics is also the first major exhibition since the progressive artist’s death.

To celebrate the Barbican’s upcoming exhibition and film screenings, we take a look at some of the artist’s most shocking and haunting work