The Women House Project was founded in 2024, under the name Casa de Mulheres, in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, by Brazilian visual artist Neyde Lantyer together with Uruguayan architect, scholar and curator Alejandra Muñoz. The exhibition was held at Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia in connection with the seminar Female Protagonisms in Arts Architecture & Design, both initiatives of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) through the School of Fine Arts (EBA/UFBA), the Faculty of Architecture (FAUFBA) and the Pro-Rectory of Extension (PROEXT/UFBA), and the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia. The initiatives, wich aimed at reshaping the narrative around women’s contributions to the arts, had the participation of 51 local and international women artists and 29 women scholars. The Casa de Mulheres 2024 was estabilished with the aspiration to reimagine the future by fostering dialogue and creating opportunities for underrepresented female voices, while honouring the legacy of feminist art.

It paid tribute to the groundbreaking Womanhouse (1972) project, led by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, wich famously transformed lived experience into a radical artistic statement/discourse, deconstructing stereotypes about women’s roles in domestic spaces.  Feminist art emerged as a transformative and critical force within the art world, challenging entrenched gender norms and the patriarchal structures that dominated artistic production and reception.

Rooted in the political activism of the 1960s and 1970s, feminist artists sought to deconstruct the male gaze and interrogate the ways in which women's bodies, voices, and narratives had been historically objectified and marginalized. Using a range of media—from performance, installation, and photography to painting and sculpture—artists like Judy Chicago, Cindy Sherman, and Barbara Kruger reframed women's lives, making visible the often-silenced dimensions of female experience and power. Feminist art continues to provoke critical conversations around intersectionality, social justice, and the evolving definition of what art can be and who it serves.