Women in art. In Vienna, for a woman from 2025 – World

World – For centuries their contribution to the development of art has been underestimated or even removed, but for female artists of each era the time has come for revenge. In recent years, the great Italian painters from the past – from Artemisia Gentilesschi to Lavinia Fontana and Sofonisba Anguisissola, to the surrealist Leonor Fini – have overcome the importance of the audience, collectors and large museums, while on the contemporary scene are finally protagonists. For those who want to explore it, the panorama of female art is really limitless. Where to start? From Vienna, for example, where the 2025 exhibition calendar is full of artists to discover or know better: a “in pink” journey from the Baroque to the present, with the Albertina only presents those six exhibitions that are dedicated to the same number of Ladies of Art.

Jenny Saville, Blik, 2021-2024. Private collection. Photo Prudence Cuming, Gagosian

It starts with a celebrity of contemporary as Jenny SavilleTo his first personal in Austria. The protagonist of the movement of young British artists with Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, will be Saville from March 21 to June 29Albertine con StareOverview of the research of the last 20 years between well -known works and non -published jobs. In the center of the exhibition there is of course the human body, the most important interest of the artist, in addition to his several sources of inspiration, from the old master such as Leonardo and Raffaello to the twentieth century of Egon Schiele, Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.

In 2025 from the Albertina there is also room for women behind the goal: in the fall the museum will pay tribute to a complete retrospective to the famous photographer Lisette ModelViennese Jew emigrated to New York, after the exhibitions dedicated Francesca Woodman (from April 4) E Jitka Hanzlová (from July 11), while we admire the clear works of admiring from July 18 Brigitte Kowanz and the sculptures and paintings of Leiko ikemura.

Lisette Model, singer at the Metropole Cafe, New York City I Courtesy Lebon-parislit

All Lower BelvedereOn the other hand, the exhibition from 18 June to 12 October Radical! Women’s artist and modernism 1910-1950 He will concentrate on the spotlight on the avant -garde women: more than 60 artists who have left a unique and original sign in more than 20 countries around the world in the history of modernism with their works, but also through their own identity. By Tamara de Lempicka A Blessedalso Sonia Delaunay A Sophie Taeuber-Arpalso Hannah Höch A Claude CahunA 360 degree research in the modern galaxy, to look at it with new eyes and to embrace its infinite variety.

Fahrelissa Zeid, Untitled (composition), c. 1949. Taimur Hassan Collection, Photo: Justin Piperger © Raad Zeid al-Hussein

And the most expected exhibition of the year is devoted to a woman at Art History Museum: It is the Flemish painter Michaelina Wautier (1613/18-1689), one of the most important “rediscovered” of the last decades. The appointment is for the next fall, when almost all his remaining works are brought together in Vienna. In an era in which the artists mainly related to death or the painting of genre, Wautier also scored in refined historical topics. For a long time no one wanted to believe his monumental Bacchanal Was painted by a woman!

Michaelina Wautier (1613/18–1689), Bacchanal, before 1659. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Picture Gallery © KHM Museum Ver context

Author of paintings of considerable originality, subtle humor and considerable courage in the representation of male nudes, Michaelina actually remains an enigmatic character. For example, it is not exactly known when it was born or where it was formed. It was probably his brother Charles, also a painter, who was a teacher. A large collector of that time, the Archduke of Austria Leopoldo Guglielmo, has bought some of his works and it is thanks to him that the Kunsthistorisches Museum today has the largest collection of paintings of Wautier, including the notorious Bacchanalconsidered his masterpiece. The Viennese exhibition emphasizes Michaelina’s exceptional skill and the artistic quality of its paintings, similar to those of contemporaries such as Pieter Paul Rubens or Antoon van Dyck.

Angelika Kauffmann Museum. Photo © Günter König

Another important protagonist of painting awaits us outside of Vienna and exactly in Schwarzenberg, a village surrounded by greenery on the border with Switzerland (and close to the Italian border). It is Angelika KauffmannCosmopolitan Painter who enchanted the courts of half of Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century, active between London, Paris, Rome and Naples. From 1 May to 2 November the Museo Angelika Kauffman di Schwarzenberg He will tell the artist’s link with fashion, an important element in his portraits. Very competent to catch the essence of the person for him, Kauffmann also distinguished himself for the attention for clothing, accessories and hairstyles: with her the customers certainly came to the last cry! Paintings, drawings, prints and elegant eighteenth -century outfits will illustrate how Angelika not only left their goal in the history of painting, but also in those of fashion, just as the Rococo style made way for neo -classics.

Angelika Kauffmann, Anne Loudoun Lady Henderson of Secret1771i Courtesy Angelika Kauffmann Museum/Adolf Beeuter