Hittisau Women's Museum

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Hittisau Women's Museum
Hittisau Women's Museum
Data
place Hittisau , Vorarlberg , Austria
Art
Special museum
architect cukrowicz.nachbaur architects
opening 2000
management
Stefania Pitscheider Soraperra
Website

The Hittisau Women's Museum is located in Hittisau in the Bregenz Forest . It is the first and only women's museum in Austria. It is also one of the few in the rural area. It was created in 2000 through an initiative by women under the direction of museum curator Elisabeth Stöckler, who ran it until 2009. Since April 2010 the Women's Museum has been run by the art historian and exhibition organizer Stefania Pitscheider Soraperra.

Program and offer

The Women's Museum has set itself the task of making the cultural work of women and women's history visible and documenting it. The aim is to expand female identities by dealing with history and culture from a women's perspective, to stimulate processes of reflection and to raise the awareness of women and men for the historical and societal nature of gender roles and how they can be shaped. "The Women's Museum would like to start with its work again and again in the regional environment, but not stop there, but rather show the structures of the macrocosm (Austrian society, international comparisons) in the microcosm of the region." The varied offer includes two to three exhibitions per year ( both with regional and national focus) as well as numerous workshops, seminars, lectures, concerts, symposia and museum educational activities for adults and children. In order to be able to make a varied and inspiring cultural contribution during the Corona crisis , the museum launched the blog Strong Women in March 2020 . Started Strong Stories in which short portraits of exemplary women are presented.

unique selling point

The type of personal mediation is an important feature of the Women's Museum. Around 20 women from the locality, from very different social backgrounds and different ages (between 18 and 88 years), accompanied by the museum director and specially invited experts, deal intensively with the exhibition topics and develop their personal perspectives, then with the visitors to be able to enter into authentic communication. The authenticity of the museum attendants is a conceptual component of the exhibitions, and a visit to the museum should become an encounter. This concept and its implementation attracts an international audience as well as the local population. The Viennese university professor Edith Saurer said of the Women's Museum: "The Women's Museum in Hittisau is a place where traditional awareness and feminism could meet."

International networking

The Women's Museum Hittisau is a founding member of the International Association of Women's Museums (Engl. The International Association of Women's Museum , in short IAWM), the world's networked woman museums and Frauenmuseum initiatives and regularly organizes international conferences. The sixth international women's museum conference will be held in Hittisau in May / June 2021.

building

The building was built by the municipality of Hittisau according to the plans of the architects Andreas Cukrowicz and Anton Nachbaur-Sturm between 1998 and 2000 as a fire station and cultural center. The project was awarded the Austrian Builder Award in 2000. It stands on the south-eastern outskirts of Hittisau on a slope towards the Subersach and houses the volunteer fire brigade in the massive basement . At the upper edge of the site it is a wooden structure with a fully glazed facade facing the town center and a wooden structure and cladding with local silver fir . The foyer, a seminar room and a music rehearsal room are located on the ground floor, and the women's museum is on the upper floor.

Awards

  • 2000: Austrian Builder Award 2000
  • 2009: The Hittisau Women's Museum was nominated for the Austrian State Prize for Adult Education .
  • 2010: Bank Austria Art Prize , in the regional category .
  • 2012: The Hittisau Women's Museum was depicted on the Austrian Post permanent postage stamp designed by Rainer Prohaska for 1.45 euros. In addition to MUMOK and Kunsthalle Wien, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Ars Electronica Center and Lentos Museum Linz, Forum Stadtpark and Kunsthaus Graz, Essl Museum Klosterneuburg, Kunsthalle Krems, Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg Salzburg, Austrian Cultural Forum New York and MAK Schindler House Los Angeles, the Women's Museum Hittisau was included in the series as the only small house in rural areas.
  • 2013: Outstanding Artist Award (Austria) Annual themes for women's culture from the BMUKK
  • 2017: Austrian Museum Prize

Exhibitions and projects

  • 2000: Myth and Everyday Life - a socio-historical installation
  • 2000/01: Bosna Quilts
  • 2001: Focus on the kitchen: planning, equipping, using
  • 2001/02: women - hand - work
  • 2002: tides. Ceramic sculptures 1985–2001 by Elisabeth Wieser Schiestl
  • 2002: Images of women
  • 2002/03: Ways to Ravensbrück and Resistant Vorarlberg Women under National Socialism
  • 2003: Traditional costume for locals and two-natives
  • 2003: Family and work in balance
  • 2003/04: The second skin - art and clothing
  • 2004: Goddess - Witch - Healer: On a Cultural History of Female Magic
  • 2004/05: The world behind things
  • 2005: With the Women's Museum in Nuremberg: Headscarf Cultures. A piece of material in the past and present
  • 2005: Clothing carries culture
  • 2005/06: women's studio
  • 2006: Philosophers - lovers of wisdom
  • 2007: Towards Europe - European cycle by Elke Markopoulos
  • 2007: 1000 women for peace
  • 2008: Lala Aufsberg (1907–1976), world photographer from the Allgäu
  • 2008/09: INTIMATE birth - life - death. Greek mythology for the 21st century
  • 2009: Women's bequests - fragments from many lives
  • 2009/10: Still wood. The architect Wenche Selmer
  • 2010: Tribute to Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky . PROFESSION ARCHITECT. Reflections, presentations and discussions from and about practice (symposium)
  • 2010: I am me. The illustrator and animator Susi Weigel
  • 2010: Purity and Purification. Purification rituals between catharsis and social control (symposium)
  • 2011: Focus on "Women & Violence" (3 exhibitions with a series of events and films)
  • 2011: The Eleven Commandments. Mariella Scherling Elia (focus on "Women & Violence")
  • 2011: Women in the Crossfire. Jenny Matthews (focus on "Women & Violence")
  • 2011: Silent Witnesses (focus on "Women & Violence")
  • 2011: festivals. Struggles. 100 years of women's day
  • 2011/12: GRRRL ZINES. DO IT YOURSELF!
  • 2012/13: The daring women
  • 2013: European women. Strong women in portraits. A photo project by Bettina Flitner with texts by Alice Schwarzer
  • 2013/14: I'm at home. The artist AM Jehle (1937–2000)
  • 2014: Embroidered Morals. Sayings between tradition, role ascription and illusion
  • 2015: Adelheid Gnaiger (1916–1991). The first female architect in Vorarlberg
  • 2015/16: Me, at the summit. A women's alpine story
  • 2016/17: Maasai builders from Ololosokwan
  • 2018: Care for Life. Care * care * care culture
  • 2018: GIRLstory
  • 2018/19: women's time (donne di fronte / women across the street). Maurizio Bonato : An artistic look into the collection of the Hittisau Women's Museum
  • 2019: You mean it politically! 100 years of women's suffrage in Austria
  • 2020/21: BIRTH CULTURE of giving birth and being born

Publications

  • Renate Breuß / FEMAIL: Focus on the kitchen: planning, equipping, using (catalog on the occasion of the exhibition in the women's museum in Hittisau, June 1– September 23, 2001 and in the Schruns local history museum, December 15, 2001– April 9, 2002). FEMAIL Women's Information Center Vorarlberg, Feldkirch 2001.
  • Hermann Denz / Manfred Tschaikner: Everyday magic, belief in witches and naturopathy in the Bregenz Forest: A book accompanying the exhibition Goddess - Witch - Healer - on a cultural history of female magic. Women's Museum in Hittisau (June – October 2004) . Institute for Languages ​​and Literatures of the University of Innsbruck, Department of Linguistics, Innsbruck 2004. ISBN 3851242106 .
  • Women's Museum Hittisau: Embroidered Morals: Sayings between tradition, role ascription and illusion . June 7, 2014 to February 8, 2015. Exhibition guide. Women's Museum Hittisau 2015.
  • Stefania Pitscheider Soraperra: Between awareness of tradition and feminism. On curatorial practice in the Hittisau Women's Museum . In: Elke Krasny / Frauenmuseum Meran (ed.): Women's Museum: Curatorial politics in feminism, education, history, and art. / Women's Museum: Politics of the Curatorial in Feminism, Education, History and Art. Löcker, Vienna 2013, p. 219. ISBN 9783854096245 .
  • Elisabeth Wieser Schiestl et al .: Gezeiten: Ceramic sculptures 1985–2001 (catalog on the occasion of the exhibition in the women's museum in Hittisau, May 4th – September 22nd, 2002, and in the Evelyn Ortner women's museum in Merano, September 28th – October 31st, 2002) . Hittisau Women's Museum 2002.

Web links

Commons : Frauenmuseum Hittisau  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Discussion about the Hittisau Women's Museum. In: vbgv1.orf.at. January 8, 2009. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Alton.at: eulogy for Elisabeth Stöckler for the Prix water Woman 2005
  3. ^ Hittisau Women's Museum. (No longer available online.) State of Vorarlberg, pp. 1, 4 , archived from the original on July 16, 2011 ; Retrieved May 13, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vorarlberg.at
  4. ^ The women's museum and its tasks. In: Frauenmuseum.at. Retrieved December 3, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Stefania Pitscheider Soraperra and the team at the Hittisau Women's Museum: The world stands still. In: Strong women. Strong stories. Hittisau Women's Museum, March 17, 2020, accessed on May 3, 2020 .
  6. ^ IAWM. In: Hittisau Women's Museum. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Central Association of Austrian Architects : Builders' Awards 1967 to 2007 ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zv-architekten.at
  8. ^ Architekturzentrum Wien : Presentation of works: Fire station and cultural center, Hittisau, 1998-2000, January 25, 2002
  9. ↑ Women's Museum. Building description. In: excursion.telesis.at. Retrieved April 13, 2019 (see Otto Kapfinger's comment on architecture ).
  10. ↑ Austrian State Prize for Adult Education 2009. (PDF; 291 kB) Innovation 2009. BMUKK with the Federal Institute for Adult Education, pp. 2–6 , accessed on November 1, 2012 .
  11. ^ BA art prize for the Hittisau Women's Museum. DiePresse.com, February 18, 2011, accessed November 1, 2012 .
  12. ↑ New brand issue January 18. Definitive "Women's Museum Hittisau". (No longer available online.) Österreichische Post AG, January 13, 2012, formerly in the original ; accessed on October 31, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.post.at  
  13. ^ Award for the Hittisau Women's Museum. ORF Vorarlberg, August 6, 2013, accessed on August 7, 2013 .
  14. ↑ Hittisau Women's Museum receives 2017 Museum Prize . ORF Vorarlberg, June 13, 2017, accessed June 13, 2017.
  15. ↑ Municipality of Hittisau, page on the women's museum, exhibitions since 2000

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