Symposium: Cultural exchanges. Transmissions and alliances between modern women artists

On the occasion of the exhibition Woman Masters, the museum is organising a symposium in Madrid which brings together some of the leading international women specialists in art history, women’s studies and gender studies with the aim of generating a reflection and an informed debate on the role of women as agents and models of modern art, from the mid-19^th century to the interwar period of the following century. Cultural exchanges and different visions of the world, the intersection between art, race, sex and colonialism, gender issues and the transnational ones that run through the modern period are among the themes that will be the focus of the scheduled talks and round tables.

Within the present context of studies in art history and art theory it is equally essential to provide a gender perspective as it is to focus on transnational issues, the effects of which impact on our globalised societies. Employing these theoretical coordinates, the symposium will pursue the aim of reorienting both the history of art and the very way we reflect on contemporary art along new paths. 

Director: Maite Méndez Baiges.   
Participants: Griselda Pollock, Carla Subrizi, Mary Kelly, Camille Morineau, Menene Gras, Karen Cordero y Concha Lomba. 

Simultaneous translation will be available.