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Future of Melancholia,

On Kawara, Reading One Million Years,

Caroline Mesquita, Verdet Bath,

Lisa Le Feuvre
Great Women Sculptors

Video

The extensive publication Great Women Sculptors, co-edited by Le Feuvre was recently published by Phaidon in collaboration with the Holt/​Smithson Foundation. It gathers more than 300 female artists who have been excluded from institutions and the canon based on their gender.

Lisa Le Feuvre

Exhibition Tour
Caroline Mesquita: Verdet Bath

Slide show

As the title of her exhibition Verdet Bath suggests, Caroline Mesquita has transformed HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark into a bathhouse-like landscape, where her patinated sculptures converge across three distinct areas: the pool, the cabins, and the source.

Slideshow Mesquita

Leon Höllhumer, The Feast,

Mathias Poledna, ,

Diedrich Diederichsen
Vortrag 

Video

On the basis of his contribution to the publication, conceived against the backdrop of Poledna’s film produced in Los Angeles in the summer of 2024 especially for the exhibition at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Diederichsen will discuss and present Mathias Poledna’s artistic career with references to music and art history as well as pop culture.

Diedrich Diederichsen

Karel Císař
Lecture 

Video

In this lecture, Císař will explore Mathias Poledna’s career and artistic practice against the backdrop of the current exhibition, which can also be understood as a kind of retrospective. 

Karel Císař – Lecture

Mathias Poledna
Exhibition Tour 

Slide show

Mathias Poledna has created a complex, multi-layered body of work in which films, expansive installations and architectural interventions are in constant dialog with each other, where independent series of works, found objects and ephemeral materials all condense to form a singular artistic language. Central to his practice are questions of modernity, cultural memory and the visual imaginary in art and popular culture.

Ausstellungsrundgang Mathias Poledna

Ever/Repair,

Franz Kapfer, Atlanten – Ich oder das Chaos,

Katherine Bradford, American Odyssey,

RIDICULOUSLY YOURS! Art, Awkwardness and Enthusiasm,

Gender and Humor 
Mario Huber 

Gender and Humor – a complicated field of stereotypes, clichés and exaggerations that we will try to master. A lecture based on the title of the exhibition, with some exclamation marks, but most of all many many question marks.

Mario Huber

Give Rise To Marta Navaridas, Alex Deutinger & Manuel Riegler,

Fantastic Surrealists,

TARWUK, Бољи живоt,

Give Rise To Julius Pristauz,

on affairs,

Heinrich Dunst, sink,

Music for Drums — Jörg Mikula 

Video

Graz-born drummer Jörg Mikula presents his program of solo pieces from the concept album Music For Drums in the large exhibition hall of the HALLE FÜR KUNST. Mikula cultivates an innovative approach to his instrument and creates sound atmospheres that lead through different musical worlds. 

Music for Drums - Jörg Mikula

Systems of Belief,

Give Rise To Sunny Pfalzer & Marshall Vincent,

Yalda Afsah, Every word was once an animal,

Give Rise To Omsk Social Club & Alexander Iezzi,

Stano Filko, A Retrospective,

Give Rise To Colin Self,

Domestic Drama,

Give Rise To Billy Bultheel & Viviana Abelson,

Doreen Garner, Steal, Kill and Destroy: A Thief Who Intended Them Maximum Harm,

Kevin Jerome Everson, Recover,

Give Rise To Armin Lorenz Gerold,

Europe: Ancient Future,

John Rawls
Lesekreis 

Video

The video presents an introduction to the basic ideas of Rawls’ theory of justice, taking up important concepts such as equality as well as Rawl’s central concept of the primordial state.

Lesekreis Rawls