post-title NEWS ++ Katja Meirowsky – The Red Action and the Membrane – Museu d’Art Modern Palma | 31.05.-25.08.2024

NEWS ++ Katja Meirowsky – The Red Action and the Membrane – Museu d’Art Modern Palma | 31.05.-25.08.2024

NEWS ++ Katja Meirowsky – The Red Action and the Membrane – Museu d’Art Modern Palma | 31.05.-25.08.2024

NEWS ++ Katja Meirowsky – The Red Action and the Membrane – Museu d’Art Modern Palma | 31.05.-25.08.2024

Fundació Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma presents the exhibition The Red Action and the Membrane from 31 May. Of all the modern artists who moved to the Balearic Islands after the Second World War and created a large part of their work there, Katja Meirowsky (Straussdorf, 1920 – Potsdam, 2012) has received some of the least attention from historiographers. Unjustly ignored, her work and her figure seem somewhat alien and anachronistic today, but are at the same time of great aesthetic significance. There is an urgent need to rethink the canon of modern art, expand its criteria and make room for “the other half of the avant-garde”.

Katja Meirowsky had both Russian and Italian ancestry (her maiden name was Casella) and was raised by a Jewish mother and communist father. Between 1938 and 1942 she studied painting at the institution currently known as the Universität der Künste Berlin (Berlin University of the Arts). During the Nazi era she was a …

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Image above: Katja Meirowsky, Gruppe Bach, 1958, Gouache, 33 x 46 cm

 

 

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