In the 1980s and 90s, while working as a teacher in Tallinn, Estonia, Anu Põder started using mannequins and dolls to create sculptures of women. Some of them were quite jarring—lacking limbs, the bodies cut up like animal carcasses. In others the organs were replaced with architectural tubing. Põder achieved a bit of national recognition but when she died, in 2013, she was still little known. Now she is rising to posthumous fame for her uncompromising exploration of life in a female body. Forty works from 1978 to 2012 are on view in this exhibition. Many of them have never before left Estonia. —Elena Clavarino
The Arts Intel Report
Anu Põder: Space for My Body
Anu Põder, Lickers, 2007.
When
Feb 21 – June 30, 2024
Where
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Photo: Hedi Jaansoo/courtesy of Gianni Manhattan, Estate of Anu Pōder
Nearby
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Art
Hauser & Wirth