A a major exhibition of  70 international women artists associated with the expanded scope of Abstract Expressionism.

Reaching beyond the predominantly white, male painters whose names are synonymous with this movement, this exhibition hold at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh in 2023 celebrated the practices of women artists working with gestural abstraction in the aftermath of the Second World War.

This exhibition’s geographic breadth demonstrated that artists from all over the world were exploring similar themes of materiality, freedom of expression, perception and gesture, endowing gestural abstraction with their own specific cultural contexts – from the rise of fascism in parts of South America and East Asia to the influence of Communism in Eastern Europe and China.

The exhibition features well-known artists associated with the Abstract Expressionism movement, including American artists Lee Krasner (1908-1984) and Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), alongside lesser-known figures such as Mozambican-Italian artist Bertina Lopes (1924-2012) and South Korean artist Wook-kyung Choi (1940-1985).