Curated by Daniel F. Herrmann and Dawn Ades

This first major UK exhibition of Hannah Höch (1889–1978) will span some sixty years of the artist’s career, illuminating aspects of her work frequently overshadowed by her association with Berlin Dada. Highlights among the more than one hundred collages, photomontages, watercolors, and woodcuts on display will include an impressive selection of her pathbreaking 1920s photomontage works, which exploit the medium’s capacity to produce comic effects and insist on the political significance of art outside of activist engagement, as well as a remarkable album Höch assembled privately in the period leading up to the National Socialists’ assumption of power in 1933. The exhibition catalogue will feature new translations of texts by and about the artist, including Höch’s diary entry on her visit the Degenerate Art exhibition in 1937, and Adolf Behne’s review of the 1920 Dada Fair.

— Brigid Doherty