Guerrilla Girls: Invisible Sex in the Field of Art

The article focuses on an artist and activist collective Guerrilla Girls, created in 1985 in order to fight discrimination in the art field. It presents the group’s strategies, using selected actions as examples. The article is also a critical analysis of the collective’s achievements in the context of feminist theories, especially one concerning the relations between feminism and issues of race and ethnicity. The author is also interested in the connections between members of the group and the art system, as well as questions on sexism in the contemporary art field, after 30 years of Guerrilla Girls’ existence.