Video: inside ‘Making Modernism’ with the exhibition’s curators

Published 12 December 2022

Take a look around our show devoted to trailblazing women of 20th-century Modernism, guided by its curators Sarah Lea and Professor Dorothy Price.

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    What would Modernism look like if you saw it through the eyes of women artists? How could it change your perception? What other stories might you find?

    Watch Royal Academy curators Sarah Lea and Professor Dorothy Price discuss the pioneering work of four women making art on their own terms: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kӓthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin.


    • Visit 'Making Modernism'

      until 12 February 2023

      The first major UK exhibition devoted to pioneering women working in Germany in the early 1900s: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kӓthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin.

      Combining impressive, bold and intimately-scaled works, this show explores themes of identity, representation and belonging – all powerfully relevant today.

      Marianne Werefkin, Twins (detail)