Meret Oppenheim. My Exhibition

Exhibition catalogue Meret Oppenheim. My Exhibition

The Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985) may be best known for her fur-lined teacup of 1936, but her legacy encompasses much more than this notorious Surrealist object. Over the course of some sixty years Oppenheim produced a dizzying range of unconventional paintings, drawings, sculptures, collages, and assemblages. She engaged with witty wordplay, celestial bodies, and the heroine of a fable from the High Middle Ages, and employed unusual materials such as saws, almonds, and ornate picture frames. Only the force of her creative vision held together her freewheeling and singular artistic practice: “Nobody will give you freedom,” Oppenheim said, “you have to take it.”

Published in conjunction with the first major transatlantic retrospective of Oppenheim’s career, Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition. Essays by curators Nina Zimmer, Natalie Dupêcher, and Anne Umland.

Eds. Nina Zimmer, Kunstmuseum Bern; Natalie Dupêcher, The Menil Collection Houston; Anne Umland, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Essays by Natalie Dupêcher, Nina Zimmer and Anne Umland with Lee Colón. English, 188 pages, 191 images., 23 × 27 cm, hardback, MoMA Publishing. The German Edition by Hirmer Publishers is available here