Here We Are!
Women in Design 1900 – Today
Be it in furniture design, industrial design, or interior design, women have contributed crucially to the development of modern design, both creatively and commercially. And yet books about the history of design tend to concentrate on their male counterparts. The exhibition »Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today« now seeks to redress the balance by giving women designers the visibility their multifaceted work has long deserved.
Around eighty women designers are show-cased in the exhibition, including well-known protagonists of modernism, but also contemporary practitioners and several figures not previously considered under the rubric of design. The collection of the Vitra Design Museum forms the point of departure for this narrative. All the venue partners have the opportunity to add local content and pieces from their own collections to continue research in this field.
Today, we take it for granted that women have successful careers in design. While the exhibition shows how far we have come, it also reminds us that we still have some negotiating to do before equal opportunities truly become a reality. This raises a number of fundamental questions: What are the decisive factors of success in design? Who defines what »good design« entails? What is authorship, anyway? Beyond addressing the role of women in design, therefore, the exhibition also examines where we stand on design – how design was defined in the past, and how we want to define it today. By opening up new perspectives, »Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today« invites us to reflect on the story we have heard so far, and how we want it to continue.
Supported by Cartier and funded by the Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States
Space
600 – 1,200 m² / 6,000 – 12,000 sq ft
Curators
Viviane Stappmanns
Nina Steinmüller
Susanne Graner
Exhibition Design
Nathalie Opris
René Herzogenrath
Stefani Fricker
Graphic Design
Judith Brugger
Detailed information
Illustrated Concept
Exhibition Film
Exhibition Tour
23.09.2021 – 06.03.2022, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
18.06.2022 – 30.10.2022, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
25.11.2022 – 14.05.2023, Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
04.10.2023 – 07.01.2024, Museu del Disseny, Barcelona, Spain
01.03.2024 – 01.09.2024, Furniture Museum Vienna, Austria
16.10.2024 – 09.03.2025, Design Museum Brussels, Belgium
12.04.2025 – 10.08.2025, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
For further information please contact Cora.Harris@design-museum.de.
