For some years now, there has been a resurgence of interest in feminism, but as of yet no sign of any real activism. In relation to the opening of the exhibition REBELLE in the Arnhem Museum for Modern Art, Clare Butcher spoke with several curators and an artist about their views on feminism in today’s art.

In the 1980s Rosmarie Trockel (1952) was viewed as an outspoken feminist whose work seemingly demonstrated her disdain for the macho art world of that time. It has become clear since then that Trockel’s work is anything but evidently political or obviously feminist. Trockels’s work may be qualified as emancipatory, but in philosophical rather than political terms.

Quality encounters: this is how we could describe the art of Dora García (1965). In an intriguing manner, she connects relational aesthetics with an institutional critique of art and society. Her work has a militant, feminist undertone, but happily not at the expense of subtlety or uncertainty.