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FROM HER: FURNITURE BY WOMEN

Focus


It was not until the twentieth century that women in Austria gradually gained access to higher artistic and technical studies, opening up opportunities for independent employment as architects, craftswomen and designers.

2024/06/18 - 2025/01/05
Vienna Furniture Museum
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
included in museum admission

FROM HER: FURNITURE BY WOMEN

It was not until the twentieth century that women in Austria gradually gained access to higher artistic and technical studies, opening up opportunities for independent employment as architects, craftswomen and designers.

On the gallery of the Vienna Furniture Museum you can see exhibits by female designers from the interwar period to the present day.

The works are by:

  • Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897 - 2000)
  • Anna-Lülja Praun (1906 - 2004)
  • Eva Riedl (1931 - 1996)
  • Heidemarie Leitner (*1944)
  • Luisa Wammes (*1960)
  • Ursula Klingan (*1963)
  • Tina Lehner (*1968)
  • Nin Prantner (*1971)
  • POLKA Designstudio (Marie Rahm, *1975 und Monica Singer, *1975)
  • Kathrina Dankl (*1981) und Lisa Elena Hampel-Plasser (*1981)
  • Lisa Stolz (*1988)
  • Dóra Medveczky (*1990)

Supporting programme

FOR HER: ROOMS FOR WOMEN

Focus


Even in imperial times, women at court knew how to assert their personal preferences and set the style. At the same time, women's interior design reflected and reinforced, but also challenged, their social roles.

2024/06/18 - 2025/01/05
Vienna Furniture Museum
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
included in museum admission

The ceramic artist Gudrun Baudisch

Focus


Under the main theme "Women in Design", the Vienna Furniture Museum is showing works by Austrian ceramist Gudrun Baudisch.

2024/03/01 - 2024/09/08
Vienna Furniture Museum
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
included in museum admission

HERE WE ARE! Women in Design 1900 – Today

Special Exhibition


Women have made a crucial contribution, both creatively and commercially, in the world of design – whether in the field of furniture, fashion, industrial products or interiors.

2024/03/01 - 2024/09/01
Vienna Furniture Museum
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
included in museum admission