Dauer: 28.2.2025 — 25.5.2025
Ort: Museumsquartier
Eröffnung: 27. Februar 2025, 19 Uhr
Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991 ist die erste einer Reihe von forschungsbasierten Gruppenausstellungen. Die Werke von etwa fünfzig Künstlerinnen aus den Bereichen Malerei, Bildhauerei, Installation, Fotografie, Film sowie zahlreiche computergenerierte Zeichnungen und Texte werden präsentiert. Die Ausstellung betrachtet die Geschichte der künstlerischen Experimente in der Vor-Internet-Ära der Informatik aus einer feministischen Perspektive.
Die Ausstellung Radical Software: Women, Art and Computing 1960–1991 wird von Michelle Cotton kuratiert und durch die Kunsthalle Wien und Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean produziert.
Eine neue Publikation mit 27 Künstlerinneninterviews begleitet die Ausstellung.
Künstlerinnen:
Rebecca Allen (b. 1953, Detroit), Elena Asins (b. 1940, Madrid – d. 2015, Navarra, Spain), Colette Stuebe Bangert (b. 1934, Columbus, Ohio) & Charles Jeffries Bangert (b. 1938, Fargo, North Dakota – d. 2019, Lawrence, Kansas), Gretchen Bender (b. 1951, Seaford, Delaware – d. 2004, New York), Gudrun Bielz (b. 1954, Linz, Austria) & Ruth Schnell (b. 1956, Feldkirch, Austria), Dara Birnbaum (b. 1946, New York), Inge Borchardt (b. 1935, Szczecin, Poland, formerly Stettin, Germany), Barbara Buckner (b. 1950, Chicago), Doris Chase (b. 1923 – d. 2008, Seattle, Washington), Analívia Cordeiro (b. 1954, São Paulo), Betty Danon (b. 1927, Istanbul – d. 2002, Milan), Hanne Darboven (b. 1941, Munich – d. 2009, Hamburg), Bia Davou (b. 1932 – d. 1996, Athens), Agnes Denes (b. 1938, Budapest), VALIE EXPORT (b. 1940, Linz, Austria), Anna Bella Geiger (1933, Rio de Janeiro), Isa Genzken (b. 1948, Bad Oldesloe, Germany), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (b. 1965, Strasbourg, France), Lily Greenham (b. 1924, Vienna – d. 2001, London), Samia Halaby (b. 1936, Jerusalem), Barbara Hammer (b. 1939, Los Angeles – d. 2019, New York), Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941, Cleveland, Ohio), Grace C. Hertlein (b. 1924, Chicago – d. 2015, Chico, California), Channa Horwitz (b. 1932 – d. 2013, Los Angeles), Irma Hünerfauth (b. 1907, Donaueschingen, Germany – d. 1998, Kreuth, Germany), Charlotte Johannesson (b. 1943, Malmö), Alison Knowles (b. 1933, New York), Beryl Korot (b. 1945, New York), Katalin Ladik (b. 1942, Novi Sad, Serbia), Ruth Leavitt (b. 1944, St. Paul, Minnesota), Liliane Lijn (b. 1939, New York), Vera Molnár (b. 1924, Budapest – d. 2023, Paris), Monique Nahas (b. 1940, Paris) & Hervé Huitric (b. 1945, Paris), Katherine Nash (b. 1910 – 1982, Minneapolis), Sonya Rapoport (b. 1923, Brookline – d. 2015, Berkeley), Deborah Remington (b. 1930, Haddonfield, New Jersey – d. 2010, Moorestown, New Jersey), Sylvia Roubaud (b. 1941, Munich), Miriam Schapiro (b. 1923, Toronto – d. 2015, Hampton Bays, New York), Lillian Schwartz (b. 1927, Cincinnati, Ohio), Sonia Sheridan (b. 1925, Newark, Ohio – d. 2021, Hanover, Main), Nina Sobell (b. 1947, Patchogue, New York), Barbara T. Smith (b. 1931, Pasadena, California), Tamiko Thiel (b. 1957, Oakland, California), Rosemarie Trockel (b. 1952, Schwerte, Germany), Joan Truckenbrod (b. 1945, Greensboro, North Carolina), Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (b. 1951, Antwerp), Ulla Wiggen (b. 1942, Stockholm)
