Inspired by various folk arts or by redefining their relationship to their “home cultures,” these professional women have carefully chosen their artistic models as part of the formation of new cultural languages. What themes and media did they use to successfully cross borders and/or were transferable to other cultural contexts? In which professional networks did they operate? The symposium will address the changing view of archival materials and collections available to curators and art historians to tell the stories of Central European designers and artists. Lectures will explore the multifaceted careers of women who crossed borders and reflect on phenomena of cultural change, processes of integration, and complex identities. Our aim is to discuss the role of museums in presenting these rich biographies in the context of a stimulating public debate.
 
Concept and Organization: Elana Shapira (University of Applied Arts Vienna) and Anne-Katrin Rossberg (MAK) in cooperation with Barbora Kundračíková (Olomouc Museum of Art – Central European Forum)
 
PROGRAM
THURSDAY
25.1.2024
 
15:30 Uhr
Anne-Katrin Rossberg (MAK): Führung durch die Ausstellung STERNE, FEDERN, QUASTEN. Die Wiener-Werkstätte-Künstlerin Felice Rix-Ueno (1893–1967)
 
16:45 Uhr
Keynote: Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber  (Technische Universität Wien): Ungeplante Karrieren in Israel: Helene Roth und Dora Gad
 
FRIDAY
26.1.2024
 
10:00 Uhr 
Eröffnung
Lilli Hollein, Generaldirektorin und wissenschaftliche Geschäftsführerin, MAK
Petra Schaper Rinkel, Rektorin Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Anne-Katrin Rossberg, Kustodin, MAK
Elana Shapira, Lektorin, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
 
1. Sektion: 
Frauen und Moderne – Erfahrungen von Grenzüberschreitungen
Women and Modernity: Experiences of Crossing Borders
 
10:30 Uhr
Annemieke Houben (Kunsthistorikerin, Amsterdam): „Denk nur nicht an Wien“: The International Network of Christa Ehrlich
 
11:00 Uhr
Jasna Galjer (University of Zagreb): Transnational exchange as a site of women interaction in modern design: The case Antoinette Krasnik-Sommaruga (1874–1956)
 
11:30 Uhr
Diskussion
 
12:00 Uhr
Michael Hölters (MAK): „America Inherits an Artist“. Die Keramikerin Susi Singer
 
12:30 Uhr
Julia Secklehner (Masaryk University Brno): Socially Engaged Avantgardes: Women’s Networks of Modernist Photography in Central Europe 1918–1948
 
13:00 Uhr
Diskussion / Mittagspause
 
2. Sektion:
Die Kunst Grenzen überschreitender Frauen
The Art of Women who Cross Borders
 
14:15 Uhr
Ashley Callahan (Art Historian, Georgia USA): Bringing Modernism from Budapest to New York City: Sisters Ilonka and Mariska Karasz
 
14:45 Uhr
Lilien Feledy (Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien): Sarah Lipskas Stickereientwürfe für Poiret und Myrbor
 
15:15 Uhr
Diskussion
 
15:30 Uhr
Lara Steinhäußer (MAK): Anni Albers und Irene Schawinsky in Bernhard Rudofskys MoMA-Ausstellung Are Clothes Modern? (1944)
  
16:00 Uhr
Lisa Ortner-Kreil (Kunstforum Wien): History Repeating?
Zur Freundinnenschaft von Vally Wieselthier, Kiki Kogelnik und Renate Fuhry

16:30 Uhr
Diskussion / Pause
 
16:50 Uhr
Barbora Kundračíková (Olomouc Museum of Art – Central European Forum): DIG DEEP: Between Material and Performance. Roundtable Discussion with the artists Alicja Bielawska, Sári Ember, Habima Fuchs, and Monika Pascoe Mikyšková
 
17:45 Uhr
Elana Shapira: Schlussbemerkungen

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Free admission.
Please register.
The registration is valid for both days.
Entrance: Stubenring 5
The event will take place in the MAK Lecture Hall (Access via the exhibition HARD/SOFT in the Lower Exhibition Hall)