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Meet the radical Swiss painter in her Alpine studio as she unveils her first retrospective in France

Miriam Cahn: ‘Anger is a very good motor for art’

<div>The Basel-born artist has lost nothing of her fire. In&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/artist/7208/Miriam-Cahn">Cahn</a>’s paintings, brutal sex and mutilated bodies coexist with animals and flowers. It is life itself, in all its monstrous and absurd complexity, that the artist attempts to capture. And while her message is never obvious, the political content is always palpable. Cahn’s&nbsp;œuvre is an invitation to never give up the fight.Curated by Emma Lavigne and Marta Dziewańska, the exhibition ‘Miriam Cahn. Ma pensée sérielle’, currently on view at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris is the first major retrospective devoted to Miriam Cahn’s work in a French institution, bringing together more than two hundred artworks from 1980 through to the present day.Miriam Cahn is represented by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/gallery/1217/Meyer-Riegger">Meyer Riegger</a> (Berlin, Karlsruhe) and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/gallery/1132/Galerie-Jocelyn-Wolff">Galerie Jocelyn Wolff</a> (Romainville).‘Miriam Cahn. Ma pensée sérielle’ Until May 14, 2023 Palais de Tokyo, ParisDirector: Luke Casey Director of photography: Tom Hall Production: Coline Milliard and Jeanne-Salomé Rochat for Art BaselOriginally published on May 27, 2019.</div><url><a></a></url>

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