Exhibition Role Models 

Exhibition for International Women’s Day

The project "Role Models – In the Mirror with Myself" invited five strong women to share their stories in in-depth interviews. They speak about their personal and professional paths, reflect on gender stereotypes, and share moments of both success and failure. Across the conversations, striking commonalities emerge—clues to what can be seen as guiding factors in women’s lives.

Five female artists transformed their impressions from the interview texts—each with a woman they had never met—into artistic portraits. These portraits were created without facial likenesses, free from visual assumptions and stereotypical traps.

The exhibition panels of "Role Models" act as mirrors in which each viewer can discover reflections and parallels to her own life journey.
A companion book presents not only the interviews and artworks, but also introduces all 18 women who took part in the project.At its heart, this project is about empowerment—from women, for women.

Styrian Summer Art presents the exhibition by the Vereins FELIN in cooperation with the Bündnis 0803 and the PTS and NMS Pöllau, in the lead-up to International Women’s Day on March 8.

As part of the exhibition, a talk with participating women and a local role model from Pöllau will take place on March 2 at 11:00 AM.
Artist Feli Fröhlich will also lead a creative workshop on the topic with students from the PTS.