The historical exhibitions are about:
Cecilia Grierson (1859-1934), an extraordinary women from Agrentina, the first South American woman which obtained the degree of surgeon doctor. She was the President of the First International Feminist Congress in Argentina and fundet the first Nursing School in Argentina, installed the First Aid Service of the Public Assistance in Bueno Aires City, established a Psycho pedagogical Surgery School for children with conduct, phonation and learning problems and so on. (Fact Pag: originals pohotographs, gigantographies and objects: clothes, books, documents. Curator: Canas Chaure, Zulema).
Women’s Works, photographing the invisible (1880-1970), an assembling of old photos. Gabriela Laperriére de Coni, Carolina Muzzilli, Juan Bialet Masse, among many others, have described women’s working conditions, whose lives and maternitiy were torn in inhuman factories. Pictures of these women had never appeared publicly. Photographic invisibility of femal work, mirror of the socials’, subsists within the domestic environemnt and is reflected in family albums, keys to unveil the interaction between soical and personal memories. (Adriana Palomo, Argentina)

The photographic contemporary expositions are:
Carro, Andrea Verónica (Argentina): From the “daily” to the depth in the fight (Technique: digital color photographs). The photo series shows the different “facades” that are imposed to women to assume the installation of femal stereotypes.
f image and word, fotographers group from Argentina: Karina Cicovin, Denise Labraga, Eugenia Guinazu and Leticia Sahagún Alejandra, with the coordination of Alejandra Niedermaier. (Technique: photographic portraits accompanied by a brief written interview)
In occasion of the 2nd International Feminist Congress, f image and word presents the project “Facing their looks”. The project is about a series of photographic portrais and interviews with thte aim of highlighting the performance and commitment of some of the most influential contemporary argentine women photographers. The thrust of this work comines the tribute and the desire to bring a new perspective on the relationship between women and photography.

In the meantime you could see the exhibitions in different places of the Hotel Bauen, such as the plastic, historical and photographic contemporary exhibitions:
Dowek, Diana (Argentina): A Day in the Life of Maria Rosario, one workwomen. (photos with pictorial intervention)
Candioti, Ana (USA): Art and Testimony - Wmen of the Earth Series. (oil painting and acrylic)
Maldonando, Ana (Argentina): Selección (mixed technique)

As member of ICOM the Women’s Museum in Denmark there will be free entrance at 18the May to celebrate the international museum day.

The museum show two temporary exhibitions:

- Women’s Museum - a cultural gender concept for Europe, women’s museums beyond borders (a travel exhibition produced in an EU-partnership between Frauenmuseum Bonn, Frauenmuseum Meran, muSIEum Wien and Women’s Museum in Denmark

- Royal inspirations - modern knitting design (an exhibition with unique models created on the occasion of the Danish Queen’s  70th birthday in 2010.

And two permanent exhibitions:
- Women’s lives from prehistoric to present time
- History of Childhood told as Girl’s and Boy’s Stories

The opening hours will be 10-16.

Merete Ipsen

Kvindemuseet i Danmark

Domkirkepladsen 5

DK-8000 Aarhus C

tlf. +45 86 1864 70

dir. +45 86 1864 84

www.kvindemuseet.dk

IDOLS - ROLE-MODELS - HEROINES – Exhibition of the women’s museums worldwide

For the first time women’s museums from all continents showed a common exhibition in German and English. In one part of the exhibition the women’s museums presented themselves. Beside cultural diversity they feature much similarity. They were all founded because of a lack of women’s issues in most museums and they have similar aims: making visible women’s history and culture on the one side and arousing consciousness about women’s and gender issues. The diversity of the women’s museums shows up as a wide range of themes. Many of them deal with history, some are ethnologically oriented or have a focal point in archaeology, others are pure art-museums and the museum in Bonn combines contemporary art with historical or political topics. Besides the women’s museums that exist already also a few initiatives are presented that plan to found a new museum – even in country without a women-friendly politic like Iran.

Additionally in the second part of the exhibition each museum chose one or more

women from their countries who might serve as a role model. It shows an interesting gallery of women, the heroines of everyday life, and this demonstrates the different perceptions about role-models and heroines. They range from the last Danish Viking queen Thyra to the first feminist prime-minister Gro Harlem Brundtland from Norway, from the first female writer in Ukraine and the most famous Spanish flamenco dancer to a flying pioneer from Australia and a female soldier in the Vietnamese Liberation Army. Besides single woman also groups are presented like the women of the Rosenstraße in Berlin, who demonstrated successfully against the deportation of their Jewish husbands in the Second World War.

Accompanying the exhibition a bilingual catalogue has been published which can be ordered for 20 Euro. For more information about the exhibition and loan-conditions please contact:

Frauenmuseum Bonn

Im Krausfeld 10

D-53111 Bonn

Email: frauenmuseum@bonn-online.com

Places of the exhibition:

Women’s Museum Bonn September to November 2009

Danish Women’s Museum Aarhus February to August 2010

Women’s Museum Wiesbaden

(without the part about heroines) June to August 2010

Wienbibliothek in the City Hall Wien September and Oktober 2010

Women’s Museum Meran March to June 2011

We thank the sponsors:

EU-Kulturprogramm 2007- 2013

Land NRW

Sparkassenstiftung internationale Begegnungen

Renate Waldmann Stiftung

Stadt Bonn

IDOLE - ROLE-MODELS - HELDINNEN - Weltausstellung der Frauenmuseen

Erstmalig zeigen Frauenmuseen aus allen Kontinenten eine gemeinsame Ausstellung in deutscher und englischer Sprache. Im ersten Teil stellen sich Frauenmuseen selbst in ihrer Vielfalt vor. Über Ländergrenzen hinweg haben sie viele Gemeinsamkeiten.

Alle entstanden aus einem Defizit und verfolgen ähnliche Ziele: einerseits wollen sie Frauengeschichte und –kultur sichtbar machen und andererseits ein Bewusstsein für Frauen- und Genderthemen wecken. Viele Museen legen ihren Schwerpunkt auf die Geschichte, manche sind mehr ethnologisch oder archäologisch ausgerichtet. Einige sind reine Kunstmuseen, andere kombinieren zeitgenössische Kunst mit historischen oder gesellschaftlichen Themen. Neben den bestehenden Museen werden eine Reihe von Initiativen vorgestellt, die ein neues Museum gründen möchten, und zwar auch in Ländern, die nicht unbedingt durch eine frauenfreundliche Politik glänzen, wie der Iran.

Darüber hinaus wählte jedes Frauenmuseum eine oder mehrere ‚Heldinnen’ seines Landes aus, deren Leben und Handeln in den Blickpunkt der Öffentlichkeit gerückt werden. Sie präsentieren Frauenpower rund um den Globus. Gleichzeitig verdeutlichen sie, wie unterschiedlich die Vorstellungen über eine Heldin oder ein Vorbild sind. Die Spannbreite reicht von der letzten dänischen Vikingerkönigin Thyra bis zur ersten feministischen Ministerpräsidentin, Gro Harlem Brundtland in Norwegen, von der ersten Schriftstellerin aus der Ukraine, einer schweizer Gipfelstürmerin und der berühmtesten Flamencotänzerin aus Spanien bis zur australischen Flugpionierin und vietnamesischen Widerstandskämpferin. Neben Einzelnen werden auch Frauengruppen dargestellt, wie die Frauen aus der Rosenstraße in Berlin, die während des Nazi-Regimes erfolgreich gegen die Deportation ihrer jüdischen Ehemänner protestierten.

Begleitend erschien ein zweisprachiger Katalog, der für 20 Euro zu bestellen ist. Weitere Informationen über die Ausstellung und Ausleihmöglichkeiten bekommen sie im Frauenmuseum Bonn:

Im Krausfeld 10

D-53111 Bonn

Email: frauenmuseum@bonn-online.com

Stationen der Ausstellung:

Frauenmuseum Bonn September bis November 2009

dänisches Frauenmuseum Aarhus Ende Januar bis August 2010

Frauenmuseum Wiesbaden

(ohne den Teil über die Heldinnen) Juni bis August 2010

Wienbibliothek im Rathaus September und Oktober 2010

Frauenmuseum Meran März bis Juni 2011

Wir danken den Geldgebern:

EU-Kulturprogramm 2007- 2013

Land NRW

Sparkassenstiftung internationale Begegnungen

Renate Waldmann Stiftung

Stadt Bonn