The Idea The exhibition "cross female" – metaphors of the female in the art of the 90s assembles more than 30 heterogeneous artistic strategies and positions which discuss the interconnectedness of art, advertizing, lifestyle and new media with regard to the production of images of femaleness. The performativeness of femininity, the coincidence of representation and production in various social discourses of the ‘90’s are all at the center of the artistic works. "Cross female" questions – in a discussion with the current representations of femaleness –  the somewhat euphorically celebrated dissolving of the boundaries between the sexes, the talk of a post-gender world, in which the logic of gender identities constructed in a binary way has come to an end. The exhibition thus enters into the cross-gender debate, which is currently not only being led in the field of gender studies, but also to great extent in the context of new bio- and communication technology.   The digital, virtual world of the internet offers its services, for example, as the ideal surface upon which diverse fantasies of disembodiment and liberation are projected. In these fantasies the user can change fluidly