Niki de Saint Phalle. Dream Machine

In the organizer's words:

She did not ask for permission, but took what men naturally possessed: Influence and power, not only in art, but also in public. From her very first actions, Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) subverted social expectations and broke boundaries. In a large-scale exhibition, the Kunstpalast is now focusing on her artistic self-assertion in the midst of a male-dominated art scene.

Throughout four decades, her fight against structures that prevent women's self-determination, especially over their own bodies, is illuminated.
On display are her famous shooting pictures, female figures, happenings and films as well as models of large sculptures in the landscape. Her artistic environment and collaborations with Jean Tinguely and Robert Rauschenberg will be examined, as will her contemporaries, including Yayoi Kusama, Dorothy Iannone and Alina Szapocznikow.

Niki de Saint Phalle's social explosiveness and her simultaneous longing for harmonization gave rise to an ambivalent oeuvre that made the French-American artist famous during her lifetime and which continues to gain relevance today.

Price information:

Admission: €16 / reduced €12 Children / young people under 18: free Members of the Freundeskreis: free