The Xarxa de Museus d’Art publishes a census with more than 1,300 identified female artists in its collections and gathers some of their voices through the recording of interviews.
Since 2019, the Xarxa de Museus d’Art de Catalunya has been promoting the research and study of the female artists who are part of its collections with the idea of rescuing them and recovering their work and memory. We work with the aim of claiming the role that artists have played in Catalan art and with the need to generate new research to highlight and disseminate their creations.
Directed by the researcher and art historian Elina Norandi, we have made this census available to everyone where more than 1,300 artists have been identified from the 17th century to the present day, with a majority presence of contemporary artists. A census that has brought a very significant number of female authors out of oblivion and that should be used to study and give voice to many artists, many of whom were until now unknown or about whom we have very little information
The task of collecting the basic data of all the female artists present in the art museums of the Xarxa de Museus d’Art will make it possible to draw up a female artistic genealogy in our country and can become a starting point to begin to delve deeper into the museum field as in the academic field It must also promote the detection of deficiencies in public collections and stimulate the increase of works by artists in new acquisitions.
It is a work in progress, porous, which will contribute to establish the foundations for deploying a more in-depth study of an open nature The intention is to make it grow and complete it with more data that will be incorporated from new acquisitions, research or exhibitions, etc.
