Miriam Cahn Last updated June 16, 2025 Swiss painter
Miriam Cahn, untitled 10 May 2012, 2012, pastel and charcoal on paper, 39 x 23 cm. Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Collection Miriam Cahn (born 21 July 1949) is a Swiss painter.
Work 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]
Exhibitions Individual exhibitions READING DUST, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2024Miriam CAHN: Ma pensée serielle, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2023 [ 13] Miriam Cahn: ME AS HAPPENING, Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), 2020–21 Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, 2019 Miriam Cahn: I as Human , Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw , 2019Miriam Cahn: I as Human , Haus der Kunst , Munich, 2019everything is equally important, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia , Madrid, 2019DAS GENAUE HINSCHAUEN, Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2019 ICH ALS MENSCH, Kunstmuseum Bern, 2019 devoir-aimer, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris, 2017 mare nostrum, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, 2016 Lachen bei gefahr, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, 2012 Sarajevo, Stampa, Basel, 1993Stampa, Basel, 1994 Nachkrieg-Vorkrieg (Was Fehlt), Stampe, Basel, 1992 Museum für Moderne Kunst , Frankfurt am Main, 1992, 1995 Verwandschaften, Galerie Espace, Amsterdam, 1991Verwandschaften, Stampa, Basel, 1990Verwandschaften, Art Frankfurt, 1990Verwandschaften, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 1990Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich, 1988 Van de Loo, Munich, 1988 Lesen in Staub, Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem, 1988Lesen in Staub, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, 1988Lesen in Staub/Weibliche Monate, Kunstverein Hannover, 1988 Musée Rath , Geneva, 1988 Lesen in Staub/Strategische Orte, Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, 1987Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 1987 Galerie Vorsetzen, Hamberg, 1987 Stampa, Basel, 1987 Strategische Orte, DAAD, Berlin, 1986Strategische Orte, Stampa, Basel, 1986Strategische Orte, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, and Kunstmuseum, Bonn, 1985Strategische Orte, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich, 1985Das Klassische Lieben, Musée la Chaux-de-Fonds, 1984Das Klassische Lieben, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna , 1984Das Klassische Lieben, Stampa, Basel, 1984Das Klassische Lieben, Kunsthalle Basel, 1983Wach Raum 1, Konrad Fischer, Zurich, 1982Stampa, Basel, 1977, 1979, 1981 Selected group exhibitions Documenta 14 , Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany, 2017 [ 14] 21st Sydney Biennal, 2018 Prière de toucher – Le tactile dans l'art, Museum Tinguely, Basel, 2016 Module mai, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2010 Sammlung Van de Loo, Neue National galerie Berlin, 2004 Where Is Abel, Your Brother?, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art , Warsaw, [ 15] 1995From Beyond the Pale, Irish Museum of Modern Art , Dublin, 1994Centre d'Art Contemporian, Geneva, 1994 Zur Sache Selbst, Künstlerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts Museum, Wiesbaden, 1990Triennal de Dibuix, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1989 Sydney Biennal , 1986 Crosscurrents in Swiss Art, Serpentine Gallery , London, 1984 Documenta , Kassel, Germany, 1982Feministische Kunst International, Frauenzimmer, Basel, 1979Claudia Martínez Garay and Miriam Cahn: Ten Thousand Things , Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, 2020 [ 16] References ↑ Foster, Alicia (2004). Tate women artists . London: Tate. pp. 186– 187. ISBN 978-1-85437-311-3 . ↑ "Miriam Cahn" . Palais De Tokyo . Retrieved 19 September 2023 . 1 2 "Cahn, Miriam" . Oxford Art Online . Retrieved 3 April 2015 . ↑ PEDRERO, Agnès. "Jewish artist to pull works from Swiss museum over Nazi-era collection" . www.timesofisrael.com . ↑ "Expo à Paris : "Insupportable, décrochez ça": Un tableau d'une artiste suisse fait un tollé" . 20 minutes . 7 March 2023. ↑ "Constat d'Huissier au Palais de Tokyo pour une abominable toile de Miriam Cahn – Karl Zéro" . YouTube . 7 March 2023. ↑ Cunningham, Peter (April 1980). "Feministische Kunst Internationaal: A Review". Oxford Art Journal . 3 (1): 83– 84. doi :10.1093/oxartj/3.1.83 . JSTOR 1360183 . 1 2 Priscilla Frank (3 September 2012) "Swiss Painter Miriam Cahn On Her Upcoming Exhibition 'Lachen Bei Gefahr' At Badischer Kunstverein, Germany" , Huffington Post (Arts & Culture) . Retrieved 18 June 2013. ↑ Halle, Howard (9 March 2011). "Review: Miriam Cahn | Art | reviews, guides, things to do, film – Time Out New York" . Time Out New York . Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2016 . ↑ Scheller, Jorg (9 November 2012). "Miriam Cahn's Fragmented Bodies" . Frieze (7). Retrieved 19 September 2023 . ↑ Lauter, Devorah (14 April 2023). "A Court Has Ruled That a Controversial Miriam Cahn Painting, Targeted by Far-Right Censors, Can Remain Hanging at the Palais de Tokyo" . ArtNet News . Retrieved 19 September 2023 . ↑ "Goslarer Kaiserring 2024 geht an Künstlerin Miriam Cahn" [ Goslar Kaiserring 2024 goes to artist Miriam Cahn] . Tagesschau (German TV programme) . 12 January 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2024 . ↑ "Ma pensée sérielle – Palais de Tokyo" . ↑ "Miriam Cahn" . www.documenta14.de . Retrieved 23 March 2019 . ↑ Hillstrom, Laurie Collier; Hillstrom, Kevin (1 January 1999). Contemporary women artists . Detroit: St. James Press. ISBN 1-55862-372-8 . ↑ "Where the Andes Meets the Alps: Miriam Cahn and Claudia Martínez Garay in Nanjing" . ocula.com . 7 January 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021 . Further reading Schmetterling, Astrid. "Cahn, Miriam." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed 18 February 2012; subscription required). ed. Marta Dziewańska. "MIRIAM CAHN: I AS HUMAN ". Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2019). External links
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