“Guerrilla Girls: The art of bad behavior”, a retrospective of thirty years of action and resistance of this group of feminist artists who perform their urban interventions clad gorilla masks, It will be inaugurated on Saturday 10 in the Usina del Arte, coinciding with the Night of Museums.

“Museums today are not showing the history of art, they are simply preserving the history of wealth and power”, They warned the artists.

This anonymous group of artists and activists emerged in 1985 in a demonstration against the MoMA and became especially relevant in 1989 when the New York Met Museum presented an exhibition announcing to “the most important artists of the moment”. As a reply, they noted that less than three percent of the works belonged to female artists, but 83 percent of the nudes were female.

“Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into the Met Museum?” (“Do women have to undress to enter the museum?”) was the question that the group printed on striking yellow background posters, to paper around the museum, in a tribute to The Great Odalisque by Dominique Ingres, but with an ape mask.

Of unknown identity, it is known that the group is made up of women of different ages and ethnic origins, between artists, painters, writers, film directors, curators and art historians. Some of them use pseudonyms of emblematic painters such as Frida Kahlo or Eva Hesse.

The anonymity they maintain is not random; allows them to stay focused on the issues raised and away from the question of their identity: They could be anyone and they are everywhere. Its goal is gender equality in art.

The exhibition in the Labyrinth Room of the Usina (Agustín R. Caffarena 1, Mouth) will include a series of posters, books and videos that relate the permanent actions that the group carries out in numerous cities around the world to denounce the lack of equitable representation of women artists in museum collections, but also in obtaining prizes, in the quotation of works and in many other aspects.