MERET OPPENHEIM
4 September - 31 October 2004 modernamuseet.se

foto: Meret Oppenheim. Meret Oppenheim in paper coat and sunglasses designed by herself, 1976. Collection Dominique Bürgi, Switzerland Claude Lê-Ahn, Boulogne

Oppenheim worked as a model and as a designer of jewellery and clothes. Some of her designs were sold in the 30ies to the famous Paris designer Elsa Schiaparelli. Oppenheim loved fancy dress and ritual, theatre and carnival. Her performance La Festine (1959), in which she let participants eat a sumptuous meal from the body of a nude woman, will be interpreted by the artist Katrine Helmersson in a recreated version during the exhibition period... next>>>