Cristina Schek Explores Wimbledon’s Suffragette Legacy Through 'Her Court' at Young Masters' Wimbledon Museum Exhibition | 2-11 July 2026
Cristina Schek has unveiled Her Court, her first museum-scale mixed-media installation, presented at Wimbledon Museum as part of Her Court: The Role Wimbledon Played in the Suffragette Movement, a special exhibition organised by Young Masters in collaboration with Wimbledon Museum. The project was selected through the Young Masters Art Prize Open Call by a distinguished panel of curators, historians and cultural leaders.
Best known for her surreal photographic practice, Schek expands beyond the photographic frame for the first time, bringing together photography, sculpture, textile, sound and historical research. At the centre of the installation is a 150-year-old Carver chair, transformed into a symbolic seat of women's memory, visibility and resistance through custom digitally printed velvet, a ceremonial sash, printed lace portraits and an original spoken-word sound work concealed within a vintage-style radio.
Inspired by the overlooked history of Wimbledon and its role in the Suffragette movement, Her Court draws together two stories that coexist every summer. While Wimbledon is celebrated around the world for The Championships, it was also home to women including Rose Lamartine Yates, whose fight for political equality helped shape modern Britain. The installation highlights another remarkable connection: the purple, white and green seen throughout Wimbledon today were first adopted as the colours of the Suffragette movement long before they became associated with tennis.
Alongside the installation, Schek presents The Levitation Series, three companion archival pigment prints titled Before Flight, Mid-Air and After Flight, extending the installation's central metaphor that every act of freedom has three moments.
Her Court marks an important milestone in Cristina Schek's artistic practice, representing her first immersive installation and a significant evolution of her visual language beyond photography into spatial storytelling.
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