DIE ANDERE SEITE DES MONDES : Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Ombres pénétrant spectre de couleurs vives, 1939, Gouache auf Zeichenpapier, 34,8 x 25,9 cm, Kunstmuseum Bern, Schenkung von Frau Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach, Meudon 1970, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011

The other side of the moon - female avant-garde artists of yesteryear, female art exhibition at K20

'The other side of the moon' exhibition centres on eight female artists, who played a pivotal part in the aesthetic reinvention of Europe in the 1920s and 1930s – hard to believe, but no less true.

Due to their unexpectedly high artistic skill, their irritatingly direct, almost 'non-female' approach to drawing in the viewer, they became part of the avant-garde network that was such an integral part of the art scene at the time. The women...