The Kunstmuseum St.Gallen presents the first retrospective in Switzerland of the recently deceased Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong (born in Hengelo, the Netherlands in 1939; died in Amsterdam in 2024). The exhibition brings together an oeuvre of painting, sculpture and graphic art produced in dialogue with some of the most important post-war artistic movements in Europe - including art brut, Pop Art, New Figuration and Postmodernism. Aged 19, De Jong became already involved in the revolutionary, radical avant-garde movement the Situationist International. Throughout her career, De Jong stayed true to this spirit. Her shapeshifting and oftentimes politically engaged work was playful, erotic, funny, dark and - above all - always radically contemporary, oriented towards the world.
The exhibition runs from 27 September 2025 until 22 March 2026.