To mark the 40th anniversary of the iconic feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls, the Getty Center is opening an exclusive exhibition featuring rare archive material, among other things. How to Be a Guerrilla Girl will be on display in Los Angeles from November 18.
No one knows who they are or how many artists are part of the collective: with their iconic gorilla masks and satirical, truth-revealing posters, the Guerrilla Girls are one of the most famous collectives in the world. They were founded in response to an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1984, in which only 13 of the 169 artists exhibited were female. Advantages of Being a Woman Artist (1988) and Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into The Met Museum? (1989) are among the group's most famous works. Based on a comprehensive archive that has been in the possession of the Getty Museum since 2008, the current exhibition marking the 40th anniversary of the Guerrilla Girls offers a chronological overview of the collective's development and features rarely seen archival material. How to Be a Guerrilla Girl opens on November 18, 2025, and runs through April 12, 2026.
The Guerrilla Girls have created a newly-commissioned work for the exhibition that explores the Getty's own collection of European painting and sculpture. Using comic strip style speech bubbles, they reimagine the voices of women represented in these artworks through a twenty-first century lens. The commission exposes deeply rooted biases in the representation of women in Guerilla Girls characteristic witty style.
Other retrospectives of the Guerrilla Girls this year included Guerrilla Girls: Making Trouble at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., and Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly at the National Gallery of Bulgaria in Sofia.
Art for the harmonious coexistence of the global population: At the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno presents visions for new forms of living together. The exhibition Tomás Saraceno. Ancestral Futures opens on July 17.
A unique body of work: Tate Modern is presenting the Cuban artist Ana Mendieta with over 150 works, including films, installations, and rarely seen paintings. The exhibition of the same name opens on July 15 in London.
