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Vereinigung bildender Künstler*innen Österreichs (Austrian Association of Wom*n Artists), invites you to send in a proposal for our annual program running from March 2027 to February 2028.
Across the world we are witnessing the resurgence of authoritarianism, fascism, militarization, colonial violence, and the intensification of extractive capitalism. At the same time, care is increasingly privatized, solidarity criminalized, and difference turned into a threat. We are told there are no alternatives.
As María Galindo reminds us, feminism is not a project about women's rights alone but a project of social transformation, while Sara Ahmed suggests that feminist work often begins with refusal: refusing the world as it is.
Following these feminist, queer, anti-racist, anti-colonial, and anti-authoritarian traditions, we believe that another way of living and practicing is not something waiting ahead of us. It is something we rehearse together through the ways we organize, create, care, listen, remember, and struggle. At a moment when inequalities deepen through the ongoing extraction of land, bodies and labor, feminist practice becomes a way of exposing these structures while imagining how practices could be otherwise.
We aim to put together a program of different practices that nurture communal care and build a platform for collective rehearsals that imagine alternative futures and other ways of living together.
We are looking for proposals that allow for tenderness, that are not afraid of ugly feelings, and different truths. We welcome projects that explore how contemporary queer and feminist perspectives resonate across artistic, social, and political movements. We welcome proposals for exhibition formats that bring together multiple artists, collectives, or collaborative practices. We encourage proposals that activate the exhibition through public programming, including screenings, performances, workshops, lectures, and other events. Please note that we do not support solo exhibitions, individual presentations, or projects centered on the work of a single artist.
Although VBKÖ started as a feminist association in 1910, its history is also marked by violence, exclusion, and discrimination towards individuals and communities based on religion, class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. Acknowledging the weight of our own histories, VBKÖ has been transforming and actively fighting against any form of discrimination, including trans-exclusionary radical feminism. Therefore, we stand together with our artistic communities to mutually exchange different ways of knowledge and practice.
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