Summer 2008, Vienna: Irene Andessner presents posters of staged portrait photographs in 400 »City Light« display cases around the city. As a motif for the eleven-part series of photographs she has selected noteworthy, legendary or almost forgotten Viennese women of the 19th and 20th centuries from the fields of science, art, politics, business and society, sympathetically interpreting and presenting them in pictorial form in order to re-publish them in her own way:
Marianne Hainisch, Bertha von Suttner, Katharina Schratt, Bertha
Pappenheim, Alice Schalek, Emilie Flöge, Lise Meitner, Gina Kaus, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Irene Harand, Hedy Lamarr.

Accompanying program:
Talks and lectures at the KUNSTHALLE WIEN project space karlsplatz with curators and historians: Dr. Gerald Matt, Dr. Lisa Fischer, Dr. Irene Suchy, Elke Krasny, Dr. Gabriele Kohlbauer, Prof. Klaus Honnef, Petra Unger M.A.

Exhibitions:
July to September 2008 in 400 »City Light« display cases around the city (Opening at the KUNSTHALLE WIEN Project Space Karlsplatz)
Repetition in Novembre 2008 at European Month of Photography
2010: Permanent exhibition at the Hotel InterContinental Vienna

Public collections:
MUSA Museum auf Abruf/Stadt Wien, Wien-Bibliothek, Republik Österreich

Special Website: www.wienerfrauen.at

Main Sponsors:
Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur; Frauenabteilung der Stadt Wien; KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien; Wien Kultur; Gewista.

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