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Hilma's Ghost

Founded by Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray, Hilma’s Ghost is a feminist artist collective that seeks to address existing art historical gaps in abstraction through sustained methods of praxis, research, and pedagogy. Hilma af Klint’s exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2019) served as a reckoning for abstraction by women, trans, and non-binary peoples, whose narratives have been subsumed by dominant modes of western art history. Among other falsehoods, the art historical cannon created a faulty start for abstraction with Wassily Kandinsky’s 1910 manifesto Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Therefore, the collective’s purpose is to recover esoteric schools of thought that address abstraction through collaborative art making, rigorous study, innovative educational initiatives, and ritual practice.

Hilma’s Ghost  has conducted experimental pedagogy, transcultural dialogue, and collectivity through the lens of feminism and spirituality to build community and reckon with patriarchal art histories that have excluded women, trans, and nonbinary practitioners. Hilma’s Ghost collaborated artistically on ABSTRACT FUTURES TAROT, consisting of 5 paintings, 78 drawings, and an original limited-edition tarot deck that was exhibited at The Armory Show 2021. The exhibition was shortlisted as one of the exhibitions to see by Will Heinrich at The New York Times. In January 2022, the duo curated Cosmic Geometries, a group exhibition of 25 artists at EFA Project Space, which Jillian Steinhauer of The New York Times called “a knockout exhibition.” CHROMAGICK, a series of collaborative drawings using color magic and crystals exhibited at Expo Chicago in 2022.

The collective has worked to create a growing online community of 6K individuals through exhibitions, curating, and online programming which connects artists with professional healers through workshops. To date, they have run a dozen such online programs on subjects ranging from automatic drawing to sigil-making. Hilma’s Ghost has solo exhibitions at The Hill-stead Museum in Connecticut and Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago and a printmaking residency at The Wassaic Project.

Purchase the Abstract Futures Tarot Deck here.
Purchase the Cosmic Geometries Catalogue here.