»Creating Space: The Constructivist Marlow Moss«

The exhibition Creating Space: The Constructivist Marlow Moss is the first major show on this pioneering artist in Germany. In 1930s Paris, she was considered one of the few recognized women among avant-garde artists and was also a founding member of the Abstraction-Création association. Moss (1889-1958), who preferred a masculine appearance and men's clothing from around the age of 30, developed a comprehensive, unique formal language in her constructivist paintings and sculptures, with which she sought a universal order of color, line, and space. Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) in particular was fascinated by her use of the innovative double line (it is currently unknown who ultimately invented it). Moss's entry into art history was also hampered by persecution, exile, and the war-related loss of her works. The Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin is presenting the artist's surviving sculptures together for the first time in this exhibition, supplemented by paintings, drawings, and photographs of lost sculptures. The exhibits will be on display from April 2 to July 26.

Moss is now considered the first British constructivist artist. In the current Berlin show, her works are juxtaposed with contemporary positions: Leonor Antunes (born 1972), Tacita Dean (born 1965), Florette Dijkstra (born 1963), and Ro Robertson (born 1984). Their works open up various connections to Moss and offer new perspectives on the artist's search for a universal order. The exhibition brings together loans from major museums and archives in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France, the USA, and Germany, as well as numerous private collections. Moss was part of the acclaimed 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction: Another History of Abstraction in the 20th Century at the Centre Pompidou, which subsequently traveled to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the West Bund Museum in Shanghai.