Integration of Women Artists

The Mercedes-Benz Art Collection places a strategic emphasis on the ongoing establishment and promotion of women in art: as of 2022, women artists make up approximately one-third of our Collection. Important individual works or groups of works by representatives of the international post-war avant-gardes and contemporary art have found their way into the Collection. In the early 2000s, these included Dadamaino, Sylvie Fleury, Gail Hastings, Isabell Heimerdinger, Tamara K.E., Sarah Morris, Charlotte Posenenske, Sturtevant, Simone Westerwinter orAndrea Zittel. From 2003 on, works by other internationally renowned artists such as Jane Alexander, Leonor Antunes, Jo Baer, Hanne Darboven, Ulrike Flaig, Andrea Fraser, Beate Günther, Silke Radenhausen, Berni Searle, Pamela Singh, and Katja Strunz followed. More recently, works by, for example, Bethan Huws, Cao Fei, Iman Issa and Haris Epaminonda have been added along with many others.