Hot Flowers, Warm Fingers is the first institutional solo exhibition in the Netherlands by French artist Pauline Curnier Jardin. For this presentation at the Centraal Museum, she brings together existing work and new work created especially for the occasion.
A central work in the exhibition is Adoration, comprising both an installation and a video, in which Curnier Jardin visualises the forgotten story of the women imprisoned in the Casa di Reclusione Femminile, a former women’s prison in Venice. Using her distinctive visual language, she weaves together historical sources, religious rituals, and feminist themes.
Curnier Jardin’s work has previously been shown at the Venice Biennale (2017 and 2022), Performa in New York (2015), and Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2020). In 2019, she was awarded the prestigious Preis der Nationalgalerie, followed by a solo exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2021).
