regards the spreading of female-connotated images of disease such as anorexia, bulimia or the syndrome of multiple personalities. The idea of the disappearance of the body is therefore not only found in the media communities of the internet, but also on the female body, which as a ‘virtual me’ describes the materialization of the non-body. Thus the central question of the exhibition asks whether culturally handed-down establishments can be understood as outstripped, or whether gender attributes are merely appearing in a new guise, in this place a ‘real’ radicalization. A culmination of the cross-gender debate, which reflects the hybrid relationship between discourse and materiality in an especially striking way, is, in our opinion, the topic of transgender/transsex. While, on the one hand, in the field of transgender masquerade, travesty, or parody can be discussed as potential queer life-forms beyond and between the poles of ‘male’ and ‘female’, law and medicine insist upon an unambiguous gender identification within the framework of a binary matrix. Thus, precisely in transgender and transsex contexts, handed-down ‘images of femininity’ are called up and cemented through processes often painfully tied back to the body. The exhibition "cross female" discusses both the shifts and the