A Room of One's Own

EXHIBITION

11.02.2023 – 21.01.2024

Lydia Schouten, Shattered Ghost Stories, 1993. Collection of Museum Arnhem.

11.02.2023– 21.01.2024

In the exhibition A Room of One's Own several rooms are dedicated to the work and ideas of female artists in the collection who made their name in a world where male artists were the norm. Next to works from our own collection, A Room of One's Own also features guest exhibitions from Carol Rhodes (1959-2018), Lydia Schouten (1948) en Marijke Stultiens (1927).

What is the minimum requirement to create a work of art? British author and feminist Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) asks herself this question in her essay titled: A Room of One's Own (1929). Her answer: security, confidence, independence, a certain amount of money and... a room of one's own. Things that may sound quite ordinary now, but were unnattainable for women all over the world.

Carol Rhodes, Airport Hotel and Airport, 1996. Collection Merlin James, Glasgow. Photo: Ian Marshall.

Carol Rhodes

Carol Rhodes' (1959, Edinburgh– 2018 Glasgow) artistic career spanned over 35 years. In A Room of One's Own both her drawings and paintings are on view. This posthumous retrospective is her first solo museum presentation on the European mainland. Rhodes painted many landscapes from an aerial view, reflecting a rapdidly changing world.

Carol Rhodes

Lydia Schouten

Lydia Schouten

Marijke Stultiens

Want to know more? Find out in our exhibition booklet!