KosmosTheater
KosmosTheater (previously known as Kosmos Frauenraum) was established in 2000 as a center dedicated to women artists.
KosmosTheater presents contemporary theater, performance, dance, music, visual arts – usually in interdisciplinary form –, comedy, cabaret and clowning as in-house productions, co-productions or guest performances.
KosmosTheater coproduces the bienniale Clownin – International Women’s Clown Festival.
The productions at KosmoTheater often deal with role models from the present day and from the past, with utopias, gender troubles as well as feminist worldviews. In all original productions and co-productions of the KosmosTheater the goal is to enable a woman artist to be part of the leading team.
Information
(Objekt ID 48688)| Object type | Organization |
| Organization type | Programming, Producing, National institution, Network organisation, Interest organisation |
| Main focus | Theatre, Performance, Dance, Circus, Music, Visual art, Multidisciplinary art |
| Established | May 15, 2000 |
| office@kosmostheater.at | |
| Website | KosmosTheater |
Contact information
| Address | Siebensterngasse 42, 1070 Wien, Austria |
| office@kosmostheater.at |
Other information
| Legal entity | Other |
At the webpage of KosmosTheater the following, among other things, is written about KosmosTheater:
"In 1998, one year after the first Austrian referendum on women’s issues, women artists founded the association LINK.* Verein für weiblichen Spielraum. Taking up an idea and strategy developed by Barbara Klein, LINK.* called for the creation of a center for art and politics dedicated explicitly to women artists – their works, life plans, utopia and visions – so as to enhance their public visibility. The motto “Women Need Space” summed up their aspirations in a popular way. Within a short time this idea found active support in all social strata – which clearly showed how strong the need for a women’s space was in the late 1990s!
A struggle waged by hundreds of activists over a period of four years, backed by a petition with several thousand signatures, resulted in a number of art initiatives, demonstrations and interventions in public space. The wave of civil disobedience culminated in the former porno cinema Rondell being occupied by artists for ten days and nights. Police put an end to this protest but the activities that followed contributed to an alternative building being found – the former Kosmos cinema, centrally located in one of Vienna’s liveliest districts."
Source:
KosmosTheater, kosmostheater.at, 01.06.2015, http://www.kosmostheater.at/