‘Louise Bourgeois & Pablo Picasso: Anatomies of Desire’ is curated by highly renowned specialist Marie-Laure Bernadac, former curator at the Louvre, Picasso Museum, and Centre Pompidou, and is the first time that Picasso is exhibited in a dual dialogue with a female sculptor. The exhibition brings together over 90 works including paintings, sculptures and works on paper from important public institutions and private collections such as the Fondation Beyeler (Riehen/Basel), Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas), and Kunstmuseum Den Haag (Hague), and is organised in close collaboration with the Louise Bourgeois Studio. ‘By placing these artists together for comparative analysis, this exhibition sheds new light on their oeuvres and rids us of the clichés of the virile painter armed with a phallic brush and the sculptress armed with a knife,’ explains curator Marie-Laure Bernadac