Vienna, of all places, hasn’t hosted a major exhibition on the subject of Music, in any shape or form, in nearly twenty years. Now, in this most timely project, one of its great art-halls is to focus on the significant role that women have played in
the making of music throughout the centuries.
At first sight, you might not know these personalities, who contributed significantly to European music-life – however after visiting our exhibition the striking experience will let you know what you have missed. From five different perspectives, in five specially-designed rooms, this Exhibition will most artfully highlight the substantial contribution that women have made both in the fields of composition and music-making too. From Hildegard von Bingen to Olga Neuwirth, women’s hitherto unrecognised profile in the history of music will be seen in a wider political context now that efforts have been made, both in Europe and internationally, to create a more gender-balanced world. Indeed Austria’s Foreign Ministry, for its part, published a book focusing on women’s music for the first time in 2009.
Though the Exhibition will naturally enough focus on Austrian female composers it will properly look as well at all the great women composers from past ages and other countries. Designed in concept to astonish and fascinate, the Exhibition will have interactive features and altogether it will be highly approachable.
Following its opening in Vienna, our aim is for it to tour worldwide, both to music festivals and art institutions that present a feminine agenda.
The Exhibitions will provide a venue for female musical, artistic and political discussion. A concert series is planned for Vienna, a catalogue is prepared and discussions are on-going with music institutions interested in cooperating and a possible CD publisher, and with radio stations which are interested.
| October 4th – October 13th |
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| MusicaFemina @ 25th City of Women Festival in Ljubljana |
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| The exhibition featured the portraits of Austrian and Austrian-based women composers, ranging from film music to jazz, from contemporary music to experimental and electronic sounds. It also included video interviews with Slovenian experimental female musicians.
You can find a list of all composers and videos here:
For the opening Austrian director of Cultural Forum in Ljubljana, Andreas Pawlitschek, presented us with an opening speech.
The concert program was curated by partners from Germany, Hungary and Slovenia.
In the frame of the 25th City of Women Festival, a partner’s meeting took place for 2 days where our partners from Ljubljana, Hungary and Germany talked about upcoming activities for our Creative Europe project.
On October 6th representatives of our European team from Germany, Hungary, Slovenia and Austria presented papers on Feminism in Sonic Arts at the international conference.
During three days a Focus on composer and author Nina Dragičević was organized. |
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| December 10th |
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| MusicaFemina in Washington |
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| As a consequence of our successful EU Creative Europe project MusicaFemina is invited to the Austrian Cultural Forum in Washington We will celebrate Human Rights day on December 10th with a concert lecture and a panel. The exhibition selected for Washington is presenting female Austrian film music composers, NS-deported composers, music of contemporaries on pacifism and world hits by female composers. |
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| January 8th-9th |
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| MusicaFemina International Symposium Budapest “Gender and Creativity in Music Worlds” |
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As part of its Hungarian event series, MusicaFemina International is organizing a symposium and workshop in Budapest on January 8-9, 2020. The initiative, involving
The Budapest symposium will provide a public forum for researchers and music professionals — including musicians, educators, critics and industry personnel —interested in the causes and modalities of gender inequalities and gendered power dynamics present in the multiple genres and worlds of music. The symposium is co-supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. |
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