{"id":478088,"date":"2026-05-10T18:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T18:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/478088\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T18:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T18:21:48","slug":"5-exhibitions-celebrating-female-creatives-from-marilyn-monroe-to-frida-kahlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/478088\/","title":{"rendered":"5 exhibitions celebrating female creatives, from Marilyn Monroe to Frida Kahlo"},"content":{"rendered":"

As in most fields, women in art have often been pushed to the margins and left woefully under-represented. It was only during the Renaissance, still most celebrated for the works of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael, that women artists such as Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana gained some recognition.<\/p>\n

Yet barriers persist today. In her 1971 essay, \u201cWhy Have There Been No Great Women Artists?\u201d, Linda Nochlin identified the structural and institutional obstacles that kept women outside the art world. Her critique continues to ring true.<\/p>\n

More recently, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington reported that women now make up 51 per cent of visual artists worldwide, yet their work is rarely seen in public, with 78 per cent of London galleries still showing more male than female artists.<\/p>\n

This month, a number of museums around the world are spotlighting women who have shaped contemporary culture. From Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s introspective \u201cEcholalia\u201d in Reykjav\u00edk and Iris van Herpen<\/a>\u2019s New York exhibition, through Marina Abramovi\u0107\u2019s historic showing at Venice\u2019s Gallerie dell\u2019Accademia and the Tate Modern\u2019s first major Frida Kahlo retrospective, to centenary tributes to Marilyn Monroe \u2013 not a visual artist herself, but a legendary muse \u2013 these five upcoming exhibitions all deserve a closer look.Bj\u00f6rk<\/strong>\"Bj\u00f6rk\u2019sBj\u00f6rk\u2019s multidisciplinary exhibition \u201cEcholalia\u201d will be held across four galleries in Reykjav\u00edk. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n

\u201cEcholalia\u201d, Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s multidisciplinary exhibition opening at the National Gallery of Iceland as part of the Reykjav\u00edk Arts Festival on May 30, takes its name from the act of involuntarily repeating what another person says.<\/p>\n

Unfolding across four galleries in three large-scale installations, the exhibition reflects ongoing collaborations between Bj\u00f6rk \u2013 multitalented singer, songwriter, composer, record producer and actress \u2013 with musicians, dancers and filmmakers. At its core, however, \u201cEcholalia\u201d is a deeply intimate tribute to her late mother, Hildur R\u00fana Hauksd\u00f3ttir, who died in 2018.<\/p>\n

The first installation is connected to Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s forthcoming album, featuring pieces drawn directly from the new music that marks her latest chapter. Two and three revisit Ancestress and Sorrowful Soil \u2013 both elegiac tracks made in 2022 and dedicated to her mother.<\/p>\n

Known for her avant-garde sound and boundary-pushing visual artistry, Bj\u00f6rk transforms the museum into an immersive reflection on grief and the cyclical nature of life. Works on display include video and sound collaborations with communities of musicians, artists, designers, dancers, filmmakers and studio technicians.<\/p>\n

Running alongside \u201cEcholalia\u201d is \u201cMetamorphlings\u201d, the first museum retrospective of James Merry, Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s long-time collaborator and mask designer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As in most fields, women in art have often been pushed to the margins and left woefully under-represented.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[29212,365,362,363,364,39874,170745,366,18,117,46793,209373,19,17,47848,130,99371,112969,209371,209370,34676,968,209372,12876],"class_list":{"0":"post-478088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-academy-museum-of-motion-pictures","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-bjork","14":"tag-brooklyn-museum","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-eire","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-frida-kahlo","19":"tag-gallerie-dellaccademia","20":"tag-ie","21":"tag-ireland","22":"tag-iris-van-herpen","23":"tag-london","24":"tag-marilyn-monroe","25":"tag-marina-abramovic","26":"tag-musee-des-arts-decoratifs","27":"tag-national-gallery-of-iceland","28":"tag-national-portrait-gallery","29":"tag-new-york","30":"tag-reykjavik","31":"tag-venice"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116551673138751062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}