Being a Girl*!?
From Panel Painting to Social Media
What motivates girls today and what role models have been handed down to us from the past? Contemporary art often deals with images of girls in socially motivated themes: Coming of age, self-optimisation tendencies – often in interaction with social media – fluid genders, issues of diversity, interculturality and inclusion.
In addition to early representational portraits and images of saints, female children and adolescents appear throughout the ages as models of artists or as an expression of blossoming life in conflict with transience. In nine thematic circles, the exhibition moves towards the era of digital transformation along several intermediate
temporal stages.
With over 150 art works by international artists, the exhibition attempts to analyse and break up the current situation by referring back to modes of representation from earlier times. By taking the initiative, girls show the world who they really are!
Curator: Brigitte Reutner-Doneus
Exhibition Design: Margit Greinöcker & Tobias Hagleitner
Concept and Design of Das Zimmer: Cécile Belmont and the Lentos Art Education Team
Artists
Iris Andraschek, Markus Åkesson, Özlem Altin, Iris Christine Aue, Laila Bachtiar, Alfredo Barsuglia, Margret Bilger, Hans Böhler, Dietmar Brehm, Anna Breit, Eugenie Breithut-Munk, Maria Bussmann, Heinrich Campendonk, Emil Czech, Canan Dagdelen, Stephan Dakon, Albin Egger-Lienz, Josef Engelhart, Claire Fontaine, Lucian Freud, Gertrud Frey, Dwora Fried, Hans Fronius, Georgios Georgolios, Lucy Glendinning, Dorothee Golz, Nilbar Güreş, Marlene Haring, Anna Elisabeth Hausswolff , Julie Hayward, Nina Hollein, Bu Hua, Wolfgang Hutter, Isolde Jurina, Bernhard Keilhau, Demeter Koko, Jaroslav Král, Iris Legendre, Maximiliano León, Mike Mac Keldey, Matthias May, Jürgen Messensee, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Fernando Moleres, Kolo Moser, Muntean/Rosenblum, Rinke Nijburg, Felix Nussbaum, Monika Oechsler, Lorraine O’Grady, Margit Palme, Sergius Pauser, Karin Maria Pfeifer, Vanessa Jane Phaff , Pablo Picasso, Rory Pilgrim, Charmaine Poh, Teresa Präauer, Bernhard Prinz, Odilon Redon, Johann Baptist Reiter, Rosa Rendl, Anton Romako, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Isa Schieche, Egon Schiele, Martin Johann Schmidt, Rosa Schweninger, Jakob Seisenegger, Clara Siewert, Wu Shaoxiang, Anna Skladmann, Edith Stauber, Ceija Stojka, Annelies Štrba, Jutta Strohmaier, Sophia Süßmilch, Magda Tothova, Veronika Veit, Borjana Ventzislavova, Maja Vukoje, Bertha Wuilleumier, Amelie von Wulffen
The Room
The Room invited visitors to relax, read, write, draw, think, discuss, and get involved. On display were artistic works by young people and adults who had left their mark and shared their thoughts there.
On select Thursday evenings from discussions took place with guests from the fields of history, philosophy, activism, and art, as well as with young people. Together, they explored topics and questions related to “being a girl*,” the exhibition, and various personal perspectives. Visitors also had the opportunity to engage with the exhibition using the messages created for The Room.
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Messages from The Room in the exhibition 
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