Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions (AWARE)

A sample of MACBA artists joins the Archives of Women Artists.

María Teresa Hincapié. Si aquest fos un principi d'infinit

MACBA enters a partnership with the Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions (AWARE), a non-profit organisation active since 2014 as a response to the under-representation of women in the art world.

Set up by Camille Morineau, art historian, specialist in the history of women artists and former curator at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, AWARE provides a bilingual online content platform (in English and French) to raise the visibility of women in art. As the name suggests, AWARE offers a dictionary of artists (updated weekly) together with interviews and information about research, exhibitions, publications, meetings, awards and symposia. For each artist, users can access a biographical dictionary, a representative corpus of pictures of their work, key words to facilitate research and links to other related artists. In May 2024, the AWARE platform already contained 1,183 texts on artists from different times and places. In this initial partnership, AWARE incorporates artists from the MACBA Collection, including Dara Birnbaum, Eulàlia Grau, María Teresa Hincapié, Teresa Lanceta, Mabel Palacín, Tere Recarens and Eulàlia Valldosera, who represent different generations, artistic genres and cultural traditions. The partnership is part of the Role Models programme. As AWARE explains, “A ‘model to follow’ is a person whose example may be followed by others, especially by younger people. The aim is to make women artists and their careers known, to help the public – especially the young audience of MACBA and AWARE – to project themselves and to question preconceived ideas about gender.” You can consult and enjoy the extensive information provided by AWARE. From today onwards, arts in the MACBA Collection have their place in these Archives of Women Artists, which are becoming a landmark online space.