Vaginamuseum

[5] The curated gallery shows selected artworks which stimulate new thinking about the female genital and lead to new perspectives.

Rajnar's vision is that the museum can help improve people's negative attitudes about the vagina which are shaped through culture and media.

Reflections in dealing with the term vagina are based on ideas, expectations, attributions, associations and emotions by means of art.

[7] The artistic inputs range from earlier depictions of vulva symbols in different civilizations and times to the life and work on social media platforms and sex-positive feminism in cyberspace.

[11] Artists (alphabetical order): Zara Alexandrova (DE), Teresa Ascencao (CA), Rachelle Beaudoin (US), Yvonne Beelen (NL), Ada Kobusiewicz (AT/POL), Renate Kordon (AT), Bernhard Krähenmann (CH), Gertrude Moser-Wagner (AT), Boryana Rossa (US), Barbara Schmid / Ulla Sladek (AT), Maja Smekar (SI)[12] This contribution was developed by the art historian Sara Buchbauer.

[13] The texts about different periods serve as an introduction to offer information on the political and cultural events of the time, on the women's role and stylistic characteristics relating to art.

[16] The newly created term Vaginalogy doesn't yet exist in the general language and consists of the word Vagina and the suffix -logy.

[8][16] In 2014, the Jetzt-Magazin of the Süddeutsche Zeitung published an interview with Kerstin Rajnar and with Hjortur Gisli Sigurdsson, director of the Icelandic Phallological Museum in Reykjavík.

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