Marisol, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jacqueline de Jong, and Carolee Schneemann. These four women artists played a key role in the art scene of the 1960s. The four focused on the human form, color, feminism, and political commitment to create a new art form for a changing society.

  

All four artists were committed to art and societal transformation. Their work also occupied an important place on the public scene, in the media and in the intellectual debates of the 1960s. This lecture will explore the relationship between these four women's lives and careers.
 
Annabelle Ténèze has been the director of the Louvre-Lens since September 2023. A former student at the École Nationale des Chartes and the Institut National du Patrimoine, Annabelle Ténèze began her career in 2006 as curator in charge of prints and drawings at the Musée National Picasso-Paris. In 2012, she was appointed director of the Musée d’Art Contemporain de la Haute-Vienne - Château de Rochechouart where She has also co-organized several exhibitions dedicated to women artists (Paint, she Said and Lucy’s Iris. Contemporary African Women Artists in partnership with the MUSAC in León and the CAAM of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria). In 2017, she became director general of Les Abattoirs, Musée –Frac Occitanie Toulouse, an institution that combines the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Toulouse and the Regional Funds of Contemporary Art Occitanie.