Paula Rego: There and Back Again at Kestner Gesellschaft

This major exhibition (30 October 2022–29 January 2023) is centred around the artist’s 1990 masterpiece Crivelli’s Garden.

There and Back Again is the first German solo exhibition by the Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego, a master of uncompromising vision and an incomparable storyteller who is celebrated as a feminist icon. Her work deals with the themes of fascism, abortion, tragedy and solidarity between women. The exhibition, co-curated by Alistair Hicks and Adam Budak and designed by Didier Fiuza Faustino, sees itself as an opera about human sensitivities, staged in several acts and performed in different narratives. 

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Image: Paula Rego, The Company of Women, 1997

Pastel on paper on aluminium

160 x 120 x 6.5 cm, 63 x 47 1/4 x 2 1/2 in

© Ostrich Arts Ltd

Courtesy Ostrich Arts Ltd and Victoria Miro

Photo: Nick Willing