Marta! Puppets, Pop & Poetry
Museum für Neue Kunst
14 March – 21 September 2025
Marta Kuhn-Weber (1903–1990) was an extravagant, self-confident and highly-individual crossover artist. She refused to accept boundaries, be they in her thinking or in her art. After periods in Berlin, Freiburg and Basel, she moved to Paris in the mid-1960s. Her mastery of self-staging is evident in her photographic and painterly self-portraits, as well as in her large dolls and puppets, which address gender attribution, sexuality and social roles. Literature, theatre, show business and the queer scene of the 1960s and 1970s inspired her. Today, Marta Kuhn-Weber represents a new type of artist: independent, keen to experiment and unpeturbed by the judgements of others. The Museum für Neue Kunst is also breaking new ground with Marta: an AI intervention by artist Boris Eldagsen and film animations by puppeteer Vanessa Valk bring the dolls in the exhibition to life.
