SO BEAUTIFUL

Who cleans? Women*, the poor, people of colour? The situation is precarious: What is a labour of love for some, means hard, underpaid, un-paid work for others. Why are those who generate waste held in higher esteem than those who clear it away?

SO CIVILISED

Does cleanliness equal culture? We consider cleanliness as civilising nature. Doesn’t our cleanness come at the price of disregarding nature and the environment? Why is gold dust viewed as precious and house dust as dirty?

German only

We'll wipe through the history of cleanliness with you!
SPICK-AND-SPAN for Kids

Our exhibition has a lot to offer for the whole family. How and what did people clean in the past? Is a pig dirty? And what is dirt anyway? In a playful way you can learn more about dirt and cleanliness.

We look forward to seeing you! 

SO SAFE

Are we safe, when it smells lovely? Too small, too taste-less, too odourless to be cleaned away? Light pollution at night and noise pollution near the motorway, nuclear radiation post-Fukushima, viruses, germs, bacteria – all odourless but nevertheless so dirty.

SO TIDY

The history of humankind – utter chaos? Myths, religion, philosophy, art, science – many have been looking for ways of bringing order to chaos. Why do we always feel the need to divide the world into pairs? Right and wrong, to be and not to be, life and death?

Art Positions 

ONA B., Sevda Chkoutova, DIE DAMEN, VALIE EXPORT, Melanie Greußing, Swaantje Güntzel, Paul Hazelton, honey & bunny (Sonja Stummerer & Martin Hablesreiter), Sarah Jackel & Lisa Jakob, A.M. Jehle, Friederike Klotz, Christine Lederer, Ina Loitzl, Gabriele Maria Lulay, Karin Mack, Irmgard Mellinghaus, Jelena Micić, Zanele Muholi, Kateřina Šedá, Roland Stecher, Franziska Stiegholzer, Maria Stockner, Viktoria Tremmel, Maria Walcher, Andreas Wegner, Tina van de Weyer 

SO PURE 

Privileges always depend on power.Sexism and racism are expressed in words and actions. Do purification rituals serve as catharsis or are they instruments of social control? What makes women* pure?

SO INVISIBLE

A village gets buffed up. For its guests everything has to shine. As if by magic: The efforts of “chambermaids”, room service, and cleaning personnel happen discreetly behind the scene. Are hospitality and homeliness possible without the invisible?

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LECHMUSEUM
Dorf 26, 6764 Lech am Arlberg, Vorarlberg, Austria 

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BLITZBLANK! Exhibition

CURATORS Stefania Pitscheider Soraperra & Lisa Noggler-Gürtler 
EXHIBITION DESIGN  Sabrina Summer 
EXHIBITION GRAPHICS  Katharina Rohner
ANIMATIONS  Simone Knecht
FILM Pia Berchtold & Luca Martina Huber
EDUCATIONAL WORK  Andrea Schwarzmann
TECHNICAL SUPPORT  Martin Beck
TRANSLATION  Laura Ruth Gaffron

FMH Frauenmuseum Hittisau

DIRECTOR 
Stefania Pitscheider Soraperra 

MUSEUM TEAM 
Nawres Al Anbagi, Houda Alrhawan, Wilma Bilgeri, Barbara Capri, Norah Drissner, Cornelia Ellensohn, Katharina Felder, Danielle Fend-Strahm, Barbara Frey, Bernadette Fritz, Lydia Hagspiel, Sabine Heinzle, Lucia Keck, Annelies Mätzler, Alexandra Natter, Elke Obmann-Eder, Katharina Rohner, Andrea Schwarzmann, Elena Schertler, Nadine Schütz, Dagmar Steurer, Stefanie Vogel