MAGNA. Feminismus: Kunst und Kreativität. Plus an enclosed original artist invitation. Vienna: Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, 1975. 4to. Stapled wraps as issued. 54 pages including covers. Illustrated. Texts in German. Only minor edgewear else clean and overall very well preserved copy of this very rare item (s)

First edition. – Very rare

“EXPORT stellt die Ausstellung „MAGNA. Feminismus: Kunst und Kreativität. Ein Überblick über die weibliche Sensibilität, Imagination, Projektion und Problematik, suggeriert durch ein Tableau von Bildern, Objekten, Fotos, Vorträgen, Diskussionen, Lesungen, Filmen, Videobändern und Aktionen“ in der Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Wien, und das erste Symposion zu diesem Thema im Rahmen der 21. Internationalen Kunstgespräche der Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Wien, zusammen”

Artists (Exhibition): Hilde Absalon, Renate Bertlmann, Friedl Bondy, VALIE EXPORT, Birgit Jürgenssen, Maria Lassnig, Friederike Pezold, Cora Pongracz, Meina Schellander, Karin Schöffauer, Dorothy Iannone, Franca Sacchi, Rebecca Horn, Muriel Olesen, Ulrike Rosenbach, and Katharina Sieverding. The exhibition Magna Feminismus: Kunst und Kreativität took place at Galerie nächst St. Stephan in Vienna. Additionally the invitation presents the 21st International Art Talk, marking the end of the exhibition. The four-day program included discussion groups, lectures and film screenings. Both the exhibition and the conference were intended to provide “an overview of female sensitivity, imagination, projection, and problems, suggested by a tableau of pictures, objects, photos, lectures, discussions, readings, films, video tapes and actions.”The video artist VALIE EXPORT, who initiated both the exhibition and the conference, explains in the catalogue’s introduction that the women movement in the US had inspired her to prepare the international conference in Austria. In 1972 she contacted the director of Galerie nächst St. Stephan, who vaguely agreed to host the conference. After postponing the show several times, it was first in 1974 the new director of the gallery Prof. Oberhuber agreed to realize the project. The initial idea was compromised, as the exhibition focused on works by Austrian artists , such as Hilde Absalon, Renate Bertlmann, Friedl Bondy (Kubelka), Birgit Jürgenssen, Maria Lassnig, Friederike Pezold, Cora Pongracz, Meina Schellander and Karin Schöffauer. Additionally, music was played by Dorothy Iannone und Franca Sacchi, as well as video works by VALIE EPXORT, Rebecca Horn, Muriel Olesen, Friederike Pezold, Ulrike Rosenbach and Katharina Sieverding were being screened.. The conference added an international perspective.Conference Program: 21. Internationales Kunstgespräch MAGNA FEMINISMUS April 2, 1975, 8 p.m. Claudine Eizykman (Film), Friederike Mayröcker (Lecture), VALIE EXPORT (Lecture, Feminism and Art), Gislind Nabakowski (Lecture, Feminism and Art), Carolee Schneemann (Film, Fuses), Katharina Sieverding (Film, Life-Death) April 3, 1975, 5 p.m. Liberation Films (Film, A Woman’s Place, 1971), Barbara Frischmuth (Reading from Haschen nach Wind), Therese Panoutsopoulos-Schulmeister (Lecture, Die Frau in der AA Kommune), Dr. Christian Feest (Lecture, Frauen in Stammesgesellschaften), Dr. Alfred Bader (Lecture, Über weibliche Leitbilder im 20. Jahrhundert), Agnes Varda (Film, Opera Mouffe, 1958), Valie Export (Film, Remote…Remote, 1973; Mann&Frau&Animal, 1973) April 4, 1975, 5 p.m. Dr. Erika Runge (Film, Warum ist Frau B. glücklich?, 1968), Meret Oppenheim (Film, Ein Filmportrait), Elfriede Jelinek (Reading), Gerda Diddens (Film, Sprookje; Manneke Maan), Rebecca Horn (Film, Berlin. Übungen in 9 Stücken), Dorothy Iannone (Lecture, Aus Sicht der Künstlerin), Dr. Peter Gorsen (Lecture, Frauen in der Kunst), Barbara Meter (Film, From the Exterior; Songs for four hands), Kirsten Justesen, Jytte Rex (Film, Sleeping Beauty) April 5, 1975, 4 p.m. Christina Perincioli (Film, Für Frauen – 1. Kapitel), Collettivo femminista di Cinema (Film, La lotta non e finita), Elfriede Gerstl (Lecture), Waltraud Seidlhofel (Lecture), Newsreel (Film, Miss America), Alice Schwarzer (Film, Simone de Beauvoir – ein Filmportrait 1974), Rose Richter (Lecture, Die Proletarische Frauenbewegung im Spiegel der Literatur), Dr. Elisabeth Dessai (Lecture, Wörter mit Widerhaken-Anmerkungen zum patriarchalischen Sprachgebrauch), Dore O. (Film, Kaldalon), Antje Kunstmann (Lecture, Frauenemanzipation und Erziehung, einige Äußerungen zur Ideologie), Heidi Pataki (Reading), Vibeke Petersen (Film, Femø)