Exhibitions

“GIRL MEETS MANGA”-Exhibition in MAK Vienna

Termin:
2025 04 01 - 2025 09 17
Museum für angewandte Kunst Stubenring 5, 1010 Wien, Österreich

On April 1, the exhibition GIRL MEETS MANGA: A Manga Biography from Tokyo (1985–1992) opens at the MAK Vienna. The exhibition will be on view from April 2 to August 17, 2025, in the MAK Works on Paper Room and is dedicated to the special role of manga in female identity formation.

Announcement Text:

“With the exhibition GIRL MEETS MANGA, the MAK is tracing the special role of mangas for the formation of female identity.
2.4.2025—17.8.2025, MAK Works on Paper Room

Since the middle of the 20th century, mangas–Japanese comics–have become a significant phenomenon of contemporary Japanese culture and are gaining importance worldwide. Mio Wakita-Elis, Curator of the MAK Asia Collection, lets her personal biography and perspective flow into the exhibition and gives insights into her manga-influenced teenage years in the Greater Tokyo area during the 1980s and early 1990s. As an integral part of her daily life, mangas contributed to the development of her personality and enabled reflection on social issues such as feminism, consumerism, and globalization. A wide selection of mangas as well as images, music, and everyday objects, illustrate the way Japanese comics are fascinatingly intertwined with social topics and real-life concerns of their readers. The epilogue draws a connection to the year 2025 with short stories by Viennese women who tell us how mangas influence their biographies in today’s globalized world.

CURATOR:
Mio Wakita-Elis, Curator, MAK Asia Collection”

Exhibition Page

Exhibition Poster and Program Flyers for ComFor 2018

Termin:
2018 07 11 12uhr - 2018 09 20
Foyer des Philosophikums, Universität zu Köln
„SuperQueeroes. Unsere LGBTI*-Comic-Held_innen“

In less than two and a half months, ComFor’s Annual Conference 2018 will take place at the University of Cologne on the topic “Spaces Between – Gender, Diversity and Identity in Comics”. At the same time one can visit the exhibition “SuperQueeroes. Unsere LGBTI*-Comic-Held_innen”, which was designed in 2016 by the Schwules Museum Berlin and shown with great success. For the first time, queer comic heroes of various kinds were thematized in the German museum world. As part of the ComFor annual conference, the exhibition was brought to Cologne under the organization of Christine Gundermann and reworked for the university by students as part of a seminar.
The exhibition can be visited from 11 July to September 20 in the foyer of the Philosophikum of the University of Cologne. Vernissage is on the 11th of July from 12 o’clock, opening with a talk by and about comic artist Ralf König . Subsequently, the exhibition will be opened by Dr. Kevin Clarke, curator of the Schwules Museum Berlin.

The organizers of the conference, Véronique Sina and Nina Heindl, have now also published digital program flyers in German and English (design: Julia Eckel), which not only provide quick overviews of the topics and the schedule of the conference, but – with motifs by artist Aisha Franz – also turned out to be very appealing:

Program flyer in German
Program flyer in English

Continue to the conference’s page with information on the registration process