Carol Rama
Rebel of Modernism

Sexuality, madness, illness and death are the big human themes and elemental experiences that Carol Rama (1918–2015) addressed in her art. She is one of the outstanding modern women artists, who came to fame late in life. 

As early as the 1940s, Rama paved the way for contemporary feminist art with representations of female desire. Independent of schools and artistic groups, she created an unconventional and very personal body of work over a period of about sixty years. The Kunstmuseum Bern is showing the first comprehensive survey exhibition in Switzerland devoted to the Turin artist, with works from all the creative phases of her extraordinary œuvre. It includes insistently expressive portraits, object montages in the surrealist tradition, as well as abstract paintings and works made of industrial materials. 

Curator: Livia Wermuth

An exhibition of SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT in collaboration with Kunstmuseum Bern.