Women's Museum (Bonn)

Women's Museum Bonn (2009)

The Women's Museum Bonn was founded on May 2nd, 1981 by the current director Marianne Pitzen and a group of interdisciplinary women in the old town of Bonn and was at that time the world's first women's museum. The institution, which is now internationally recognized, has shown over 500 exhibitions since its inception and organized extensive accompanying programs. The Women's Museum Bonn is supported by the Women's Museum - Art, Culture, Research eV association .

Goals and exhibition program

The Women's Museum Bonn promotes women's art with the aim of anchoring it in art history . In changing exhibition projects, works by important contemporary artists on the international art scene and by artists in Germany are shown. Many women artists who first exhibited in the Women's Museum have established themselves on the international art market . Artists and scientists work together in large themed exhibitions. In the context of contemporary experimental art or in the accompanying program of events for individual exhibitions, women's history is often reviewed and re-presented at the same time .

The museum looks after its own holdings with works by Käthe Kollwitz , Ulrike Rosenbach , Katharina Sieverding , Valie Export , Maria Lassnig , Ewa Partum, Heide Pawelzik and Irene Kulnig, as well as permanent loans from ER Nele, Linda Cunnigham, Tina Wedel and Yoko Ono . It also maintains a library with an archive on women in art, history and politics, feminist topics, cultural politics, art of the 20th and 21st centuries, art since 1945, concrete and constructive art, and architecture and design .

The Academy in the Women's Museum is aimed at events and consulting, primarily for the professional specific interests of artists. In addition to female art, women's movement and women's politics are also topics of research. In conferences, seminars and workshops, among other things, discussions about new aesthetic quality concepts take place. The work of the Women's Museum in Bonn has led to the founding of other women's museums that have taken up and varied the concept.

Complementary facilities and events

Women's fair 2009

Gallery in the women's museum
Frauenmuseum Haus Berlin, branch in the municipal gallery Berlin-Wilmersdorf-Charlottenburg
Gabriele Münter Prize for female artists of the visual arts
Verlag FrauenMuseum
Art and design fairs
Artist studios
Museum shop and café
Children's studio in the women's museum
Permanent exhibition about the destroyed Gertrudiskapelle in the Rheinviertel and ecumenically consecrated house chapel ("Gertrudiskapelle")
Memorial in the courtyard for the victims of the bombing war in Bonn with finds from the excavations in the Rheinviertel in 2010/11

literature

Twenty years of the women's museum . With texts by Margarethe Jochimsen , Annette Kuhn , Marianne Hochgeschurz, Marianne Pitzen , Heli Ihlefeld-Bolesch and others FrauenMuseum, Bonn 2006. ISBN 3-928239-49-X
Marianne Pitzen (Ed.): 25 Years of the Women's Museum: Everything Prophetinnen! Our best . FrauenMuseum, Bonn 2006. ISBN 978-3-928239-53-0