World Receivers
Georgiana Houghton – Hilma af Klint – Emma Kunz
The exhibition World Receivers. Georgiana Houghton—Hilma af Klint—Emma Kunz will offer insight into an extraordinary and largely obscure episode in the history of modernism: without knowing of each other, Georgiana Houghton (1814–1884) in England, Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) in Sweden, and Emma Kunz (1892–1963) in Switzerland devised singular abstract visual languages fraught with symbolism. They pursued their convictions with great perseverance and confidence; their shared desire was to translate the laws of nature and spiritual and extrasensory phenomena into images. Their works are rarely on public view, and our exhibition will be the first to show the three artists together.
Curated by Karin Althaus and Sebastian Schneider
In cooperation with
Victorian Spiritualists' Union, Melbourne
The Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm
Emma Kunz Zentrum, Würenlos
München
| Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus
06/11/2018 - 10/03/2019