Josephine Baker: Icon in Motion

The exhibition explores the facets and strategies of Baker’s framing of her persona in an audio-visual essay, and displays the uniqueness of her dancing style and her radiance on the screen.

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  Josephine Baker by George Hoyningen-Huene, 1929

• Josephine Baker by George Hoyningen-Huene, Detail, 1929

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Josephine Baker (1906–75) is an icon and a media phenomenon: in films, audio recordings, and photographical material, her presence as a dancer, singer and actor continues to move audiences and artists to this day. Baker’s expressive power as an artist and her life achievements are at once a part of our collective memory and have also become clichéd. The exhibition explores the facets and strategies of Baker’s framing of her persona in an audio-visual essay, and displays the uniqueness of her dancing style and her radiance on the screen – sensual, dramatic, and full of humour. Icon in Motion gives audiences an insight into Baker’s artistic work and the strategies that led to her success, into a body of work that has continued to inspire artists since she first hit the stages of Paris in the 1920s. The exhibition also looks at Baker’s contribution to cinema for the first time, an element that has previously been largely ignored.

A special exhibition of the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in collaboration with the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn

Runtime: Fri, 26/01/2024 to Wed, 01/05/2024

Installation views: Josephine Baker - Icon in Motion

Takes place here:

• Neue Nationalgalerie

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