Miriam Cahn (born 21 July 1949) is a Swiss painter.
Miriam Cahn (born 21 July 1949) is a Swiss painter.
Cahn was born on 21 July 1949 in Basel, Switzerland. [1] She studied at Schule für Gestaltung Basel in Basel from 1968 to 1973, where she became involved with feminist and anti-nuclear movements. [2] [3] Cahn is Jewish. [4]
Cahn's paintings and drawings incorporate feminism and child endangerment [5] [6] themes, female rituals; often featuring "violent and shocking representations of sexual organs". [7] They are often created using unorthodox methods. [8] Cahn's first exhibition was Being a Women in My Public Role in 1979. [3] Cahn's first exhibition in the United States was at the Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York City, in 2011. [8] Cahn's work has described as having Neo-Expressionist influences. [9]
Jörg Scheller describes Cahn as a "feminist who likes to fight." [10] Her work has been the source of some controversy, including in 2023, when several French far-right associations petitioned to have Cahn's fuck abstraction! removed from the "My Serial Thought" show at the Palais de Tokyo, claiming the painting depicted "pedo-pornographic" material. France's State Council rejected the appeal and allowed the painting, which abstractly depicted the Bucha massacre by Russian troops. [11]
In 1998, Cahn won the Käthe Kollwitz Prize awarded by the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
In 2024 Cahn receives the Goslarer Kaiserring. [12]
Cahn's works can be found in numerous art collections around the world, among others at MoMA in New York, at the Tate Modern in London, at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
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