Ladies first! Künstlerinnen in und aus der Steiermark 1850-1950

The stated goal of the exhibition Ladies First! is to counteract this general suppression of women?s art. Presenting the works of around 60 female artists, the show informs us of their life-stories, of the conditions under which they worked. In this way, the Neue Galerie Graz continues its tradition of correcting our view of history and of rehabilitating forgotten positions. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue offer for the first time a survey of women?s art in Styria from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. They invite us to revisit already familiar female artists such as Marie Egner, Friederike Koch-Langentreu, Ida Maly or Vevean Oviette, and to discover previously unknown ones such as Anna Lynker, Marianne Stokes or Mara Schrötter-Malliczky. 00The project was developed in the awareness that it is absurd to place one sex above the other hierarchically, and in the hope that it may thus contribute to true equality between women and men. The theme will be continued in May 2021 with an exhibition drawing on the international holdings in the Neue Galerie Graz collection, which will cover the period spanning the 1970s to the present day.