Campus Collaborations / Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces

August 12–November 15, 2026

Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces is the first US retrospective of Chilean artist Lotty Rosenfeld (1943–2020), one of the most important feminist artists of the twentieth century. Through printmaking, collage, video, and site-specific installation, she encoded political gestures to contest the militarization of public space and celebrated the imagination as the antidote to systems of control.

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Photo documentation of Lotty Rosenfeld, Una Milla de Cruces Sobre el Pavimento (One mile of crosses on the pavement), 1979. Art action in front of the Moneda Palace, Santiago de Chile, 1979. Courtesy Fundación Lotty Rosenfeld
Lotty Rosenfeld, La Ultima Cena (The last supper), etching on paper, 1973. Courtesy Fundación Lotty Rosenfeld
No+ Porque Somos + (No more because we are more), advertisement for International Women's Day, Chile, 1986. © Copyright C.A.D.A. (Colectivo Acciones de Arte). Courtesy Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos
Lotty Rosenfeld, Ché from the series El Obstinado Ritual de La Memoria (The stubborn ritual of memory), print on paper with thread, 2007. Courtesy Fundación Lotty Rosenfeld

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Campus Collaborations / Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces

August 12–November 15, 2026

Chilean artist Lotty Rosenfeld (1943–2020) was one of the most important feminist artists of the twentieth century, and one of the best known within Latin America. Through printmaking, collage, video, and site-specific installation, she encoded political gestures that contested the militarization of public space, especially during the repressive dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, which lasted from 1973 to 1990.

Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces is the artist's first US retrospective, illuminating her consistent attention to languages of creative resistance. In her wide-ranging feminist art practice, Rosenfeld celebrated the imagination as the antidote to systems of control, be they patriarchal, dictatorial, capitalistic, or colonial. The exhibition also emphasizes the range of mediums Rosenfeld used—including rarely seen intaglio prints, collages made from everyday materials, book covers, and serigraphs with thread. Disobedient Spaces foregrounds Rosenfeld's collaborations with fellow artists and activists, including the experimental Chilean author Diamela Eltit, the women's movement for democracy, and Colectivo Acciones de Arte. Bringing together Rosenfeld's work across media, this exhibition tells a new story about her legacy that emphasizes materiality, feminist care, and solidarity across differences. Her conceptual rigor and aesthetic subtlety provide lasting lessons to those seeking tools for how to disobey the dominant systems of power today.

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Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces originated at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, with support from Teiger Foundation and the collaboration of the Fundación Lotty Rosenfeld. The exhibition is cocurated by Natalia Brizuela, Professor of Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese, UC Berkeley, and Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University. The presentation at BAMPFA is organized by Anthony Graham, Senior Curator.