Lecture
Megan Fontanella
Wednesday 24.06.2026
Megan Fontanella
Gabriele Münter’s Worlds
Wednesday 24.06.2026
How to watch
This lecture starts on 24 June at 7:00pm (UK).
Summary
Please note this session will only be available to watch live.
The German-born modernist Gabriele Münter (1877–1962) was at the forefront of experimental art in Europe during the first half of the twentieth century. As she tested the potential and limits of visual communication, Münter found inspiration in her everyday world. She revitalized the genres of landscape, still life, and portraiture, unlocking their capacity for radical originality. This lecture interrogates recurrent themes in Münter’s still life paintings, in particular, while underscoring the artist’s deep commitment to illuminating subjects grounded in life—thereby challenging modernist narratives that privilege nonrepresentational art.
Megan Fontanella
Megan Fontanella is a strategic leader, art historian, and curator whose research encompasses late 19th- and early 20th-century European and U.S. avant-gardes, with a particular focus on dealer networks and collecting patterns. Since joining the curatorial staff at the Guggenheim in 2005, she has organized or co-organized over thirty exhibitions for the Guggenheim’s extended constellation of museums in Bilbao, New York, Venice, and formerly Berlin, as well as led traveling exhibition projects in Australia, Canada, and Europe. Major exhibitions in New York include Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World; Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle; Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim; Giacometti; and Young Picasso in Paris.