Curated by Heike Eipeldauer

It behooves the twenty- first century to look and look again at pioneering assemblagist and feminist provocateuse Meret Oppenheim (1913– 1985). Her famous “Object,” aka Le Déjeuner en fourrure, which she produced at the astonishing age of twenty-three, will not travel to this retrospective. But some two hundred items will, including paintings, drawings, photographs, fashion designs, and sculptures—for example, versions of her Urzeit Venus, a hermaphroditic fetish, drafted in pen and ink (1933) and sculpted in terra-cotta (1962) and bronze (1977). The catalogue will feature texts by Elisabeth Bronfen, Christiane Meyer-Thoss, and Abigail Solomon-Godeau, as well as reminiscences by Oppenheim’s colleagues and friends; a parallel volume, published by Oppenheim’s niece Lisa Wenger, will bring to light a selection of the artist’s previously uncirculated writings. Travels to Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Aug. 16–Dec. 1.

— Frances Richard