‘Into Other Spaces’ to reexamine trailblazing women artists across decades

Between 1956 and 1976, being a woman artist was difficult almost everywhere. The postwar art world left women little room to educate themselves and build careers, pressures that ended up helping fuel the rise of the feminist movement. An upcoming exhibition at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul will shine a light on these sidelined artists by reconstructing the immersive “environments” in which they once worked and experimented. Titled “Inside Other Spaces: Environments by Women Artists, 1956-1976,” the exhibition traces two decades in which women around the world built room-scale works that viewers could enter and experience with their bodies. The project was first presented in 2023 at MUDEC in Milan and later traveled to Haus der Kunst in Munich, MAXXI in Rome and M+ in Hong Kong in their own versions before coming to Seoul. Curators Andrea Lissoni and Marina Pugliese researched 11 artists, largely from regions and countries that curators said have been underrepresented in canonical Western art histories. Their environments, often made from light, sound, plastic and foam, anticip

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