Gender equality in the art world

This content was published on June 7, 2019 - 19:00

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Céline joined swissinfo.ch in 2018 as video journalist for the 'Nouvo in English' project, just after graduating from the Academie du journalisme et des medias (AJM) at the University of Neuchâtel. Originally from Ticino, she's been filming, writing and interviewing people all over Switzerland since she got her first reporter badge at 11 during a school camp. 

125 museums, hundred of exhibitions, pages of data. We wanted to know what percentage of exhibited artworks in Swiss museums was created by women artists. The results of our exclusive research show that female artists struggle for visibility even today, thirty years after the first call for action launched by the Guerrilla Girls in front of the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York.

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