Miriam Cahn was born in Basel in 1949. As a student at the Gewerbeschule in Basel from 1968 to 1973, she became involved in the feminist and anti-nuclear movements. This period laid the foundations for her work, which she envisages as a site of individual resistance and dissent and a means of denouncing forms of humiliation and violence. Over the course of three decades, her work has become an echo chamber for contemporary conflicts and their media coverage, from the Gulf War to the Balkan War in the 1990s to the geopolitical shifts that followed the âArab Springâ and to the ongoing crises...
Miriam Cahn was born in Basel in 1949. As a student at the Gewerbeschule in Basel from 1968 to 1973, she became involved in the feminist and anti-nucl...