until Sunday January 28 2018

Monnaie de Paris
T : +33 (0)1 40 46 56 66
11 Quai de Conti
75006 Paris
France

Women House is the meeting of two notions: a gender - the female - and a space - the domestic one. Architecture and public space have been masculine while the domestic space was for a long time the prison or the shelter of women: this historical evidence is nevertheless not a fatality and the exhibition Women House shows this. On a 1000 Sq m. floor area and in some of Monnaie de Paris’ courtyards, it brings together 39 female artists of the 20th and 21st centuries who take up this complex subject and place women at the center of a history of which they were absent.

Women House's 39 artists come from four continents; they span from historic figures such as Claude Cahun to a young generation: Mexican artist Pia Camil, Iranian Nazgol Ansarinia, Portuguese Joana Vasconcelos, German Isa Melsheimer or the French Laure Tixier and Elsa Sahal ... Some of the names are already famous (Louise Bourgeois, Niki de Saint Phalle, Martha Rosler, Mona Hatoum, Cindy Sherman, Rachel Whiteread), others are the subject of recent rediscoveries connected to a rereading of the History of Art in terms of gender parity (Birgit Jürgenssen, Ana Vieira, Laetitia Parente, Heidi Bucher).
Monumental works will be exhibited in Monnaie de Paris’ courtyards, rendered public and accessible free of charge from the Fall 2017 as part of a walking tour linking the Pont des Arts to the Pont Neuf.