The Zimmerli presents its first exhibition dedicated to women artists in the renowned Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection explores their vital contributions to Soviet nonconformist art. The Beast of Joy spotlights 41 artists from Ukraine, the Baltic states, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, with more than 60 paintings and works on paper from the 1970s and 1980s.
A transformative gift expands the Zimmerli’s collection of American art and amplifies the museum’s mission to tell untold stories.
The Zimmerli launched of a new website dedicated to its internationally renowned Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, the largest collection of its kind in the world.
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The exhibition brings together the artist’s early durational films and later serial photographs to examine repetition and duration as central forces in his art. Presenting nearly 70 photographs from the Zimmerli’s collection and a suite of films on loan from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, On Repeat offers a rare look at how Warhol used time, stillness and seriality to chart the shifting terrain of identity.
The Zimmerli’s first exhibition dedicated to Armenian nonconformist art from the Dodge collection features nearly 60 artworks by more than 30 artists who captured the ideological, stylistic and aesthetic diversity of Armenian nonconformism from the 1960s to 1990.