Corita Kent
Where have all the flowers gone
20.07.2024 - 17.11.2024 ,
Museum Penzberg – Sammlung Campendonk (Museum Penzberg - Campendonk Collection)
The Museum Penzberg - Sammlung Campendonk is dedicating this year's summer exhibition to the Californian artist Corita Kent (1918-1986). She was not only a pioneering pop artist, but as a former nun of the American order Immaculate Heart of Mary, she was also a celebrated art educator and advocate of social justice.
Over the course of her career, Corita Kent's art evolved from the use of figurative and religious imagery to brightly coloured serigraphs that used elements of advertising graphics and slogans, supermarket logos, typography from wanted posters, popular song lyrics, Bible verses and handwritten literary quotations to take an increasingly critical stance towards the existing ills of American society. In her art and collective actions, she called for a confrontation with poverty, hunger, racism and social injustice.
Last edited on 05.09.2024
