Femme Fatale

The femme fatale is a myth, a projection, a construction. She represents a firmly coded female stereotype: the seductive, seemingly demonic woman who captivates men. The catalog for the exhibition FEMME FATALE. Gaze - Power - Gender focuses on this colorful, clichéd, and long male-dominated image. It not only explores the artistic manifestations of this theme since 1800 but also critically examines the myth of the femme fatale in its historical transformations—up to its feminist deconstruction and appropriation. Artists include: Sonia Boyce, Evelyn de Morgan, John Collier, Lovis Corinth, Mary Beth Edelson, Nan Goldin, Birgit Jürgenssen, Fernand Khnopff, Maria Lassnig, Max Liebermann, Jeanne Mammen, Gustave Moreau, Edvard Munch, Odilon Redon, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Mickalene Thomas, Betty Tompkins, Franz von Stuck, John William Waterhouse, Francesca Woodman.