Archive Erzählen/Narrating Archives

The exhibition presents projects by students of the Expanded Museum Studies program, which explore four thematic strands from the archive of the Association of Women Artists in Austria (VBKÖ). This historical archive serves not only as a presentation space in which relevant documents and materials are made accessible, but also as a research object and a site of knowledge production itself. Research movements and searche for traces in the archive are revealed, occasionally forming speculative connections with gaps and absences. By “staging” and “performing” the research results, questions of memory and historiography, as well as the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion at work in the archive, are critically examined, and new interpretations are proposed.

With projects by Stephanie Bauer, Nadine Blaas, Elena Blum, Melanie Brandstetter, Nicole Dania Fölß, Timm Frech, Virág Garamvölgyi, Clara Grillmaier, Lilli Kainberger, Lisa Pairits, Aliza Cathleen Peisker, Vivien Maria Ranger, Marika Rechtacek, Bastian Rieker, Meira Savic, Ina-Marie Schröder, Katharina  Tamm, Sara Poropat Vesić, Ronja Wolf, Adriana Zafiris

As part of the project-based seminar Archive Erzählen/Narrating Archives, Expanded Museum Studies, University of Applied Arts; lecturer: Georgia Holz (PGS); in cooperation with the Vereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs – VBKÖ.

Opening: Thursday, June 17 2025, 17:00-19:00
Exhibition: June 17 –  June 28 2025
Opening hours: Fridays and sturdays 13:00-18:00

VBKÖ – Vereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs
Maysedergasse 2
1010 Vienna