Romanian, Austrian artists united in major feminist art exhibition

The exhibition “Why We Should All Be Feminists,” curated by Sabine Fellner and Alex Ion Radu, bringing together works by 44 prominent artists from Romania and Austria, will open on Thursday at 7:00 p.m. at /SAC @ Malmaison, located at 137C Calea Plevnei.

The exhibition is a plea—inevitably incomplete, yet democratic and depolarizing—for a change in the way we have grown accustomed to responding to long-standing social dynamics and for building new ones (individual, collective, governance-related, human–non-human, etc.), CE Report quotes AGERPRES.

The artists featured in the exhibition include Elisa Andessner, Iris Andraschek, Simona Andrioletti, Suzanne Anker, Stella Bach, Liliana Basarab, Renate Bertlmann, Irina Botea Bucan, Geta Brătescu, Julia Bugram, Codruța Cernea, Sevda Chkoutova, Katharina Cibulka, Alexandra Croitoru, Simona Deaconescu, Andreea Grigoraș, Lăcră Grozăvescu, Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller, Edgar Honetschlager, Nona Inescu, Aurora Kiraly, Claudia Larcher, Maria Legat, Lea Liebl, Monica C. LoCascio, Carola Mair, Marta Mattioli, Mihai Mihalcea, Mihaela Moldovan, Anca Munteanu Rimnic, Monika Pichler, Margot Pilz Beamer, Charmaine Poh, Bogdan Rața, Ness Rubey, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Oana Stanciu, Starsky, Lisa Strasser, Mircea Suciu, Tăietzel Ticălos, Mara Verhoogt, and Nives Widauer.

Artists from the two countries seek to propose solutions and ideas for more equitable and sustainable communities—communities that embrace diversity and difference and show greater care for their members—qualities that are more necessary today than ever. Their works, all highly impactful, span a wide range of media, from drawing and painting to multimedia art and installation, representing contemporary art projects from the 20th and 21st centuries.

The exhibition is part of the international project “Why We Should All Be Feminists,” conceived by Sabine Fellner and developed in numerous countries around the world in collaboration with the network of Austrian Cultural Forums. Bucharest was chosen as the project’s second stop, given the prestige of /SAC – the Contemporary Art Space and the gallery team’s performance in organizing the exhibition “Touch Nature” (Bucharest, April–May 2024). The Bucharest edition of “Why We Should All Be Feminists” is conceived exclusively for Romania by curators Sabine Fellner and Alex Ion Radu.

As reported by CE Report, the exhibition can be visited from December 18, 2025, to February 14, 2026.

“Why We Should All Be Feminists” is organized by /SAC – Contemporary Art Space and the Austrian Cultural Forum, with the support of the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, as part of the “Calliope. Join the Dots” program.