Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adams

This major exhibition will foreground these artists’ shared commitment to using humour and abstract form to ask important questions about sexuality and bodies. The influential critic and curator Lucy Lippard dubbed this kind of work ‘abstract erotic’, and in 1966, Bourgeois, Hesse, and Adams were the only women artists included in Lippard’s ground-breaking exhibition Eccentric Abstraction.

This ambitious group exhibition is the first of its kind at The Courtauld, with three-dimensional works suspended from the ceiling and abstract sculpture filling the gallery in bold and unconventional ways.