Residence: march 8 till 30th of april, 2026. Elisa Vladilo

Title: Queer-feminist Lines (LINK of the text collection)

Queer-feminist Lines is a relational art project by Elisa Vladilo,based on the Rhyme of Origin project, which is open to people from different cultures living in the same place. The project has already been implemented several times in various countries, both in public spaces and in art spaces.
On the occasion of Women's Day on March 8, 2026, the project will be realized in Villach with a queer-feminist focus: In the run-up to the event, people who are active in the queer-feminist context will be invited to participate.
The poems or texts submitted by the participants should be written by female authors and address themes such as gender, identity, desire, and feminism. 
In a joint action, the texts will be transferred onto the prepared tarpaulins, leaving some spaces free for visitors to add to the installation during the exhibition.

Opening of the installation on March 8 at 11 am, schau.Räume, Draupromenade 6, Villach. 
Opening hours: Tuesdays, 10 am - 2 pm and Thursdays, 2 pm - 6 pm. Exhibition duration 30th of April.
ACCOMPANYING EVENTS: 
BIOGRAPHY WORKSHOP on Tuesday, March 17, 6 p.m. “Empowering Lines by Women*”
GUIDED TOURS BY THE CURATOR Friday, March 27, 5 p.m. and Wednesday, April 8, 11 a.m. 
SALON on Saturday, April 18, 7 p.m. “Participation”
AND on April 30, Thursday, 6 PM “Skin Manifesto”

Artistic Director: Katrin Ackerl Konstantin | Artist: Elisa Vladilo | Curatorial Support: Barbara Ambrusch-Rapp | Biographical Storytelling: Rosalia Kopeinig | Salon: Carla Küffner | Skin Manifesto: Simone Dueller
People involved in the project who are active in the queer-feminist context: 
Martin Dueller | Theater.Text.Drama
Simone Dueller | Artist, cultural mediator & cultural worker at theater a.c.m.e,-
Juckl Entner | Active at GemSe
Alina Filip | Social worker at Frauenhaus Klagenfurt
Enis Husić | Psychologist at Checkpoint Carinthia
Utta Isop | Philosopher and gender researcher aktiv at Bündnis für eine Welt – Eva Aichholzer und Walther Schütz
Angelika Kavas | Equal opportunities officer, AMS Service Line
Sarah Rebecca Kühl | Actress and director at theater Waltzwerk
Maria Leeb | Applied theater and theater education at schau.Räume
Ute Liepold | Theater maker and philosopher at theater Wolkenflug
Mitch Noah Münzer | Diversity, education, and public relations at schau.Räume
Menata Njie | Politician and author
Johanna Sadounig | Artist, cultural mediator, and author at soroptimist international
Alexandra Schmidt | Historian at Verein Erinnern
Sara Zambrano | Actress, director, and theater maker at teatro zumbayllu
Alina Zeichen | Theater maker and cultural worker at KD Barba
 

As part of show.Rooms, a residency is awarded once a year, where a performative installation with participatory elements is created by regional and national artists in and around the show.Rooms Lab. The installation or setting remains on-site for one to two months.

Resicence: September 12 till October 7, 2025. Kerstin Bennier

Title: 51.100

In 2023, around 85,000 women and girls were murdered worldwide, more than half by their close family members. That's an average of 140 femicides per day. Kerstin Bennier is making these shocking statistics visible as part of a multi-day residency at schau.Räume in Villach. With her participatory installation 51.100, she creates a fragile and expansive visual approach to the topic and invites the public to participate in the subsequent exhibition.

Opening of the installation on Friday, September 12 at 7 pm, schau.Räume, Draupromenade 6, Villach. 
Opening hours: Tuesdays, 10 am - 2 pm and Thursdays, 2 pm - 6 pm. Exhibition duration until Tuesday, October 7.
Invitation to a discussion: Femicide – what role does this issue play in our society?
Tuesday, September 30, 2025, at 6 p.m., with: Christina Kraker-Kölbl (Villach Women's Shelter), Anita Ottacher (EqualiZ Villach, Demo StoP – Neighborhoods without Domestic Violence), Barbara Ambrusch-Rapp (curator of the installation), moderator: Rosalia Kopeinig (schau.Räume)
The StopDemo against violence against women and girls, organized by Equaliz, will take place on Monday, October 6, at approximately 4:30 p.m. at schau.Räume.
www.schau.raeume.cc

Residence 27. September 2024 till 10. November 2024. Barbara Ambrusch-Rapp

Titel: „Liebe Grüße aus Villach ein fempath_global in New York City“

The 2nd residency by Barbara Ambrusch-Rapp entitled “Liebe Grüße aus Villach - a fempath_global in New York City" took place in fall 2024. The project was shown and realized in two parts in the lab of show.Rooms: On the one hand, as a performative installation entitled “guerrilla art exhibition”.  On the other hand, a performance was realized as a performative intervention in public space at the finissage. In the run-up to the performance, visitors of the exhibition were able to name places in Villach that were then used by Barbara Ambrusch-Rapp as performance locations. The concern and interest of the exhibition and performance was the lack of representation of historical women in public space. Carddesign: Sheida Samyi, Guerilla Art Exhibition und Performance: Barbara Ambrusch-Rapp, Costume: Michaela Wuggenig

Residence 2. February bis 1. March 2024. Marco Lipuš

Titel: „Obdach/Shelter”

Photographer Marco Lipuš started the first Resindency 2024 with an award-winning project by the Carinthian Cultural Foundation entitled “Obdach/Shelter”. He used window spaces for this video installation that highlighted homelessness and “draws attention to the widespread disregard for people living on the streets”.

show.Rooms is funded by: BMWKMS - Federal Ministry of Living, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport of the Republic of Austria; Province of Carinthia - Department of Art and Culture; City of Villach - Department of Culture and Diversity.