Official website of the Belgian artist Evelyne Axell (1935 - 1972)
Retrospective exhibition at the Museum Abteiberg. From July 3 till October 3, 2011. After the exhibitions at the WIELS in Brussels and The Kunstverein in Hamburg it is now the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach that presents this summer a wide Read More …
Exhibition “La terre est ronde” From April 9 till June 13 2011 Evelyne Axell (1935-1972) was an actress and newsreader, an icon in the French-speaking world; for many, her beauty made her a sex symbol. But in 1963 she Read More …
2011 will witness a special focus on Evelyne Axell in Germany. Thanks to Dirk Snauwaert, director of the Wiels Brussels, there will be two solo exhibitions in addition to the “Power Up – Female Pop Art” show in Germany. The Read More …
POWER UP – Female Pop Art Due to the success of the exhibition the Kunsthalle Wien is extending “Power Up – Female Pop Art” until March 10, 2011. November 05th, 2010 – March 10th, 2011 Photos Kunsthalle Wien KUNSTHALLE Read More …
POWER UP – Female Pop Art November 05th, 2010 – February 20th, 2011 The exhibition shows works by Evelyne Axell, Sister Corita, Christa Dichgans, Rosalyn Drexler, Jann Haworth, Dorothy Iannone, Kiki Kogelnik, Marisol and Niki de Saint Phalle For this Read More …
Exhibition “Evelyne Axell: Contestatory Images” From October 22, 2010 to January 16, 2011 The exhibition “Evelyne Axell, images contestataires” presents a dozen artworks related to the protest movements and politics of the late sixties. This is perhaps not the main Read More …
Evelyne Axell: Those Sweet and Sour Sixties… Conference by Virginie Devillez November 10, 2010 at 7 PM Evelyne Axell can be considered a “pure product” of the sixties : in both her life and her work, she incorporated the consumerism Read More …
Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968 October 15, 2010–January 9, 2011 After Philadelphia ” Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968″ is now presented in New York at the Brooklyn Museum. This large-scale exhibition examines the impact of women artists on Read More …
Evelyne Axell; belgian surrealist Pop Art? Conference by Lisbeth Decan October 27, 2010, 7 PM In 1964, Evelyne Axell put an end to her promising career as a TV presenter, actress and film writer to devote herself solely to Read More …
Surviving H1N1, a group exhibition presented at the Contemporary by Golconda gallery in Tel Aviv shows the “Portrait of Yaël Dayan” painted by Evelyne Axell in 1969. From April 29 till June 26, 2010 Surviving H1N1 presents works by Read More …
ArtForum April 2010 So Different, So Appealing Carrie Moyer on the Women of Pop Extract: Among the artists of “Seductive Subversion” was one—the glamorous, witty Axell—who might function as a case study, allowing a closer read of the dynamics that Read More …
Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958 – 1968 Major Exhibition at the University of the Arts Rediscovers Lost Legacy of Women Pop Artists. January 22 – March 15, 2010 “Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958 – 1968,” the first major Read More …
The New York Times November 13, 2009 EVELYNE AXELL ‘Axell’s Paradise: Last Works (1971-72) Before She Vanished’ By Ken Johnson. No longer content to be objects of the lubricious male gaze, a few brave women took the representation of sexuality Read More …
The Brooklyn Rail November, 2009 Axell’s Paradise by John Yau For those who are willing to go to a slightly out-of-the-way, risk-taking gallery, located at 1182 Broadway between 28th and 29th Street, now would be a good time to hightail Read More …
The New Yorker October 20, 2009 EVELYNE AXELL The presence of the Belgian painter Evelyne Axell (1935-72) on the Brussels art scene was likened by the critic Pierre Restany to a “sexual revolution in art.” There’s ample evidence here, in Read More …
AXELL’S PARADISE Last works (1971-72) before she vanished October 3 – December 19, 2009 BROADWAY 1602 presents for the first time in the US a solo show by this outstanding woman artist. The late paradise circle marks the height of Read More …
Evelyne Axell and Pop Art in Wallonia. “La Châtaigneraie” Waloon Centre of Contemporary Art Flemalle, Belgium September 12 – October 11, 2009 Evelyne Axell, a name not known enough in Wallonia and nevertheless an important figure of Pop Art. An Read More …