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PRESS... 01 TEL 0033(0)3 87 74 20 02 INFO@FRACLORRAINE.ORG NOT READY TO MAKE NICE GUERRILLA GIRLS 1985-2016 CURATOR: XABIER ARAKISTAIN 10 Nov 16-19 Feb 17 OPENING: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH AT 7PM In presence of the curator Xabier Arakistain The Guerrilla Girls breath of inquisitive air sweeps over the Gran Est for their first iniviual exhibition in France, from 49 Nor 6 Est Collection, of course! More active than ever, invariably politically incorrect, the American collective takes over the spaces of 49 Nor 6 Est for a show orchestrate by Xabier Arakistain, a staunch supporter of the feminist cause. An opportunity to (re)iscover their work: books, films an archive photographs of their actions unertaken in the public space. As well as their emblematic posters from the 49 Nor 6 Est Collection, Not reay to make nice, the title of this exhibition, which traces 30 years of artistic insurrection, says it all.... FREE ADMISSION Tuesay through Wenesay, from 2PM to 7PM Saturay an Sunay, from 11AM to 7PM Open uring school an public holiays m Thanks to: Amy Harrison ; Azkuna Zentroa, Alhóniga Bilbao... The 49 Nor 6 Est is supporte by Région Gran Est - Alsace Champgne-Arenne Lorraine an by the Ministère e la Culture et e la Communication - Drac Gran Est... www.paris-art.com Concerne with the lack of equality whether gener, race, or class in international museums, the Guerrilla Girls have taken up arms. Becoming the conscience of the art worl, anonymous behin their gorilla masks, these activists have relentlessly enounce all forms of iscrimination, exposing the uner-representation of women an minorities in our society. The sheer magnitue of the task has inspire countless avenging activists to put on masks an join their ranks. This unifying energy has been the riving force behin the creation of activist collectives aroun the worl. Veritable 21st century Robin Hoos, the Guerrilla Girls continue to galvanize the cultural sphere with their famous posters an the lacerating wit of their provocative actions. They soun an urgent call to arms. Join us at 49 Nor 6 Est for creative action workshops, a selfefense course, an intersections between art an activism. Like the Guerrilla Girls, become super-hero.ine.s, whether you like wearing tights or not. 1- Guerrilla Girls

02 Pictures available (other posters on request) Valérie Guelton / communication@fraclorraine.org

03 A wor from the curator 1- At the intersection of art an activism, the Guerrilla Girls are an outstaning voice of the latest stage of the feminist art movement. This movement has concerne itself with upsetting fictions like the artistic genius an masterpiece, which sustain a concept of art that presents itself as inepenent of its historical an social context. Although forge in the XIX century, this concept continues in force toay. The Guerrilla Girls artist collective starte its activities in the mi-1980s in opposition to the renewe interest in these fictions that came with the rise of Neo-liberalism. The Members of the group hie their faces behin gorilla masks an aopt the names of iconic ea women artists. Remaining anonymous, they focus on the political imension of art an enounce the way women are systematically overlooke in contemporary society. The work of the Guerrilla Girls, who ientify themselves as the conscience of the art worl, marks a turning point in feminist artistic practices for two reasons: Firstly, their approach to the issues of prouction an reprouction of sexual ifference in art is a iscursive turn from previous strategies of feminist art. For the first time Guerrilla Girls offer an overview of the ifferent levels an processes that consoliate sexism in art without ignoring the connections between these processes an other institutions an social spheres. The Guerrilla Girls iconic posters are immeiately recognizable because they use the language of statistics to reflect women s position in the fiel of art an other areas an they highlight the ramatic failure of emocratic societies to keep their promise to achieve equality between the sexes. These posters also form the basis of the collective's activities, which range from placing them in public spaces, such as on the oors of art galleries in New York, to a variety of actions in museums an other cultural an social institutions. Seconly, the group s popularity in the late 1980s marke the en of the first major stage of feminist art, which ha been launche on either sie of the Atlantic on the back of the feminist movement of the late 1960s. The Guerrilla Girls posters, publications an activities acknowlege this heritage; they are constructe from it an they invoke feminist knowlege as the necessary conceptual framework for an acute reaing. Above all, the Guerrilla Girls' work is a reminer that the political aims of the feminist movement of the late 1960s have yet to be achieve an it spurs us on to continue the fight. Xabier Arakistain 1- Guerrilla Girls

04 XABIER ARAKISTAIN (Mari, 1966) is a feminist curator base in Bilbao (ES). m www.arakis.info EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) AT CENTRE CULTURAL MONTEHERMOSO KULTURUNEA, VITORIA GASTEIZ (ES) 2011 / Kick in the Eye. Eight Feminist Strategies to Interrupt the Male Gaze 2010-11 / What I See. Susan Hiller (co-curatée avec Beatriz Herraez) 2009 / Living Together (co-curatée avec Emma Dexter) 2008 / The Furious Gaze (co-curatée avec Maura Reilly) EXHIBITIONS AS INDEPENDANT CURATOR: 2016 / Why Not Juy Chicago? (CAPC, Boreaux) 2015 / Why Not Juy Chicago? (Azkuna Zentroa, AlhónigaBilbao) Guerrilla Girls (Mataero, Mari) 2013 / Guerrilla Girls (Azkuna Zentroa, AlhónigaBilbao) 2007 / Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, 86 pasos en 45 años e Arte y Feminismo (Museo e BBAA, Bilbao, ES) 2006 / Para toos los públicos (Sala Rekale, Bilbao) Switch on the Power (CAAM, Gran Canaria, ES) 2004 / Leigh Bowery (Museu Textil y e la Inumentaria e Barcelona, ES) Switch on the Power (MARCO e Vigo, C. C. Montehermoso e Vitoria-Gasteiz, ES) He incorporate the category of sex as a curatorial criterion since his first exhibition, Trans Sexual Express (Bilbao Arte, 1999). Between 2001 an 2003 he introuce gener parity into the exhibition programme at Funación Bilbao Arte Funazioa. In 2005 he launche Manifiesto Arco 2005 emaning that public aministrations aopt practical measures to implement equality between the sexes in the fiel of art, which inspire article 26 of Spain s Equality Act. He was Director of Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Vitoria-Gasteiz, from 2007 to 2011, making it a pioneering institution in the evelopment an application of feminist policies in the fiels of contemporary art, thought an culture. In 2008, concerne about hurles to the transmission of feminist knowlege between generations an the shortage of feminist texts in translation, he initiate, in collaboration with feminist anthropologist Loures Ménez, the yearly interisciplinary, international an intergenerational course Feminist Perspectives in Art Prouction an Theories of Art that since 2012 is hel at Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao. Xabier Arakistain has also curate retrospective shows evote to Feminist Art pioneer Juy Chicago an to the US collective Guerrilla Girls as well as the shows What I see Susan Hiller (co-curate with Beatriz Herráez), Living Together (co-curate with Emma Dexter) an Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, 86 steps in 45 Years of Art an Feminism. Xabier Arakistain grauate at the UPV/EHU School of Social Sciences an Meia Stuies. He also obtaine a Master of Avance Stuies with a paper on sex, gener an sexual ientities in film, as well as a Masters Degree in Film Stuies from the same university. Arakistain has given lectures at : - Tate Moern an at the Royal College of Art an UCL in Lonon - the EHESS in Paris, the MAK in Vienna - the 8th Berlin Biennale - the Brooklyn Museum an the New Museum in New York, Boston College - the MUAC in Mexico City - the Universia e Costa Rica - the Museo e Bellas Artes in Santiago Chile - an the MNCARS in Mari, amongst others. 1- Xabier Arakistain

05 Guerrilla Girls 1- COLLECTIONS (selection) UNITED STATES - Art Institute of Chicago - Art Metropole, Toronto - Baltimore Museum of Art, MD - Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY - Galerie L UQAM, Montreal - Hirshorn Museum, Washington, DC - Hoo Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover - MacArthur Founation Museum of Moern Art, New York - National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. - National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY EUROPE - 49 Nor 6 Est, Metz, FR - Centre Pompiou, Paris, FR - Danish Museum of Art an Design, Copenhague, DK - Icelan National Museum, Reykjavík, IS - Istanbul Museum of Moern Art, Turquie, TR - Museo e Bellas Artes Bilbao, Bilbao, ES - Museum Luwig, Cologne, DE - Museo Reina Sofia (MNCARS), Mari, ES - Tate Moern, Lonres, GB - Van Abbemuseum, Einhoven, NL Guerrilla Girls are a collective of anonymous artists foune in 1985. Determine to give preceence to the political imension of their work an to enounce the systematic oblivion to which women are subjecte in contemporary societies, the members of the collective ecie to remain anonymous by wearing gorilla masks an taking the names of illustrious women who were alreay ecease. The collective use facts, humor an outrageous visuals to expose gener an ethnic bias as well as corruption in politics, art, film, an pop culture unermining the iea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the unerstory, the subtext, the overlooke, an the ownright unfair. They believe in an intersectional feminism that fights iscrimination an supports human rights for all people an all geners. The group has one over 100 street projects, posters an stickers all over the worl, incluing New York, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Mexico City, Istanbul, Lonon, Bilbao, Rotteram, an Shanghai, to name just a few. The Guerrilla Girls also o projects an exhibitions at museums, attacking them for their ba behavior an iscriminatory practices right on their own walls, incluing their 2015 stealth projection about income inequality an the super rich hijacking art on the façae of the Whitney Museum in New York or the celebrate project for the Venice Biennale 2005. They have also have retrospective exhibitions in Bilbao an Mari, Guerrilla Girls 1985-2015 an have one a number of specific projects, like Is it even worse in Europe? (October 2016 March 2017) at the Whitechapel Gallery or the week-long major public project at Tate Moern (October 4 9, 2016). m www.guerrillagirls.com The Guerrilla Girls have also publishe several books on feminist thematics: m Confessions of the Guerilla Girls, m The Guerrilla Girls Art Museum Activity Book, m The Guerrilla Girls Besie Companion to the History of Western Art an Bitches, m Bimbos an Ballbreakers : The Guerrilla Girls Illustrate Guie to Female Stereotypes. In aition to the ephemera available at 49 Nor 6 Est, it s possible to get the book publishe by mfc-michèle iier entitle The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria an How It Was Cure, from Ancient times Until Now. The publication offers a iactic an satirical reaing of the history of a neurosis consiere to affect only the fair sex. 1- Guerrilla Girls, Abrons Art Center, 2015. Photo Anrew Hinraker

06 RECENT EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2016 / Guerrilla Girls: Is it even worse in Europe?, Whitechapel Gallery, Lonres, GB Tate Moern, Lonres, GB Galerie mfc-michèle iier, Paris, FR Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover, Minneapolis Institute of Art, US Luwig Museum, Köln, DE Baltimore Museum, US 2015 / Agitprop, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Archive Boun, Center for Book Arts, NY PUNK: sus rastros en el arte contemporáneo, Centro-Museo Vasco e Arte Contemporáneo (ARTIUM). Araba, ES When Artists Speak Truths, Rubins Museum, New York, NY WOMAN X WOMAN, Station 16 Gallery. Montréal, CA In the City, City of Bremen, DE (Counter) Public Art, Intervention & Performance in Lower Manhattan from 1978-1993, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. New York, US GUERRILLA GIRLS 1985-2015, Mataero Mari. Mari, ES GUERRILLA GIRLS: Art in Action, Pomona College Museum of Art. Pomona, CA 2014 / Not Reay To Make Nice, Georgia Museum of Art University of Georgia. Athènes, GR Disobeient Objects, Victoria & Albert Museum, Lonres, GB Female Intervention, Kleine Humbolt Galerie, Humbolt Universität zu Berlin, DE GIRL curate by Pharrell Williams, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, FR Archive slivers: women, men, power, Bremen Archive, Bremen, DE The Meium an the Message: The Poster in the Clash of Ieologies 1914-2014, TDOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague: Prague, CZ Art Turning Left: How Values Change Making 1789-2013, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, GB Maison u livre e l'image et u son, Villeurbanne, FR States of Flux, Tate Moern. Lonres, GB 2013 / Guerrilla Girls 1985-2013, Alhóniga Bilbao. Bilbao, ES Minimal Resistance. Between late moernism an globalization: artistic practices uring the 80s an 90s, Museo Nacional Centro e Art Reina Sofía. Mari, ES Guerrilla Girls, GDM Gallery & Palais e Tokyo. FR Göteborg International Biennial, Göteborg Konsthall. SE Feminism: from avant-gare to the present ay, Worker an Collective Farm Girl. Moscou, RU Guerrilla Girls

07 Relate proucts & Publications 1- True to their mission of informing the general public, the Guerrilla Girls ceaselessly expan the meium of their message. Their penchant for the short form an their punchy a aesthetics easily aapt to any format, no matter how small. In aition to traitional T-shirts, totes, an mugs, they esign paper tissues, bath towels, an the rubber which helps you get ri of iscriminations. Paroying commercial proucts sol by large museums, the Guerrilla Girls critique the way these institutions promote their bran name or their image in view of making more money. The Guerrilla Girls have also authore numerous illustrate publications which use humor to make feminist concepts evelope by women researchers an historians since the 1970s more accessible to the reaers. - The Guerrilla Girls Besie Companion to the History of Western Art highlights the role women playe in art, which ha been obscure until recently. - Bitches, Bimbos an Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls Guie to Female Stereotypes escribes an analyzes (both negative an positive) stereotypes associate with women throughout history an those still current toay. - Using chilren s books, such as those foun in museum shops, as a moel, The Guerrilla Girls Art Museum Activity Book teaches us to see beyon the bran image publicize by institutions an to challenge their cultural policies. - The Guerrilla Girls Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria an How it Was Cure, from Ancient Times Until Now tackles the iea of the female boy an how it was meicalize, treate an mistreate throughout the centuries. These publications are veritable manuals which, no less than all of Guerrilla Girls creations, encourage us to invent our own personal forms of activism, tinge with humor. 1- Cover of the book Bimbos an Ballbreakers : The Guerrilla Girls Illustrate Guie to Female Stereotypes

08 Films In aition to the publications, T-shirts, letters, archives ocuments, actions, visitors can also iscover two vieos: Guerrilla in Our Mist, 1992 Director: Amy Harrison 35 min - Guerrillas In Our Mist takes a look behin the scenes of New York s blue chip art market, an reveals how a contemporary art movement is create. An exploration of the machinations of the commercial art worl uring its boom in the 1980s, featuring the Guerrilla Girls, an anonymous group of art terrorists who, since 1985, have worke to put racism an sexism on the cultural agena. Combines interviews with key figures in the Manhattan art scene, recor-breakinng auction sales, exhibition openings, an interviews with the Guerrilla Girls themselves to highlight how the myth of the `heroic male painter' is perpetuate. Xabier Arakistain interviews Guerrilla Girls, 2013 Vieo, 16 min Prouce by Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao - Interview with Fria Khalo an Käthe Kollwitz by Xabier Arakistain on the occasion of their exhibition at Alhóniga Bilbao, Spain, 2013. 1- Guerrillas in Our Mist, 1992. Film by Amy Harrison.