Helen Chadwick

Société is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of the late conceptual artist Helen Chadwick. One of the most influential figures in British contemporary art, Chadwick was known for groundbreaking, visceral work that explored sexuality, identity, and the body.

– In the Kitchen (Washing Machine), 1977; courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery London, Rome and New York and Société, Berlin

"Helen Chadwick" is part of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2024.

A central work in the exhibition is Chadwick’s early video performance Domestic Sanitation (1976). Clad in latex body casts adorned with tufts of fake pubic hair or appearing as female-furniture hybrids, Chadwick and a group of friends enact absurd domestic and beauty rituals while a voice in the background hawks beauty products. The video is presented alongside a photographic series from the following year entitled In the Kitchen, which feature the artist inhabiting wearable soft sculptures of “gendered” household appliances like a stove, washing machine, or refrigerator. Similar to contemporaries like Martha Rosler’s Semiotics of the Kitchen or Mierele Laderman Ukeles’ Maintenance Art, Chadwick’s offbeat tableaux draw attention to the complex and often unspoken structures that shape women’s experience.

Opening hours: Monday to Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm

Gallery Weekend opening hours: Friday from 6 to 9 pm and Saturday and Sunday from 11 am to 7 pm

Runtime: Sat, 27/04/2024 to Sat, 06/07/2024

Takes place here:

• Société