The Emil Schumacher Museum responds to the great appeal and the numerous positive feedbacks on the exhibition “InformELLE – Artists of the 1950/60s” (until 11. January 2026) in Hagen and expands his collection presentation “Emil Schumacher – Breakthrough II” with an “Informal Intervention” with works by four contemporary artists. In doing so, the museum takes up the discourse around female positions in art into the present and continues it in dialogue with the historical avant-garde.

The intervention approaches the question of the present-day visibility of female artists on the basis of exemplary positions of different generations: Miriam Cahn, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Fatia Pindra and Aneta Kajzer. Her works are deliberately inscribed in the presentation of the collection at various points – between works by Emil Schumacher, Cy Twombly, K. O. Götz, Norbert Kricke and other male artists of the environment. This creates friction surfaces: The contemporary positions break through existing perspectives, shift perspectives and invite you to discover their artistic manuscripts in relation to the historical conception of art.

The interventional character of this exhibition extension makes it possible to open up current discourses and social questions into the museum space and to bring them into conversation with each other. The collection presentation is deliberately dynamic and open to the design in order to be able to open up new perspectives on art in this area of the museum. With the intervention, we place contemporary positions at the center of the dialogue and expand the view from the artists of the Informel.