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Diego Bianchi, Errores Irreales,

Diego Bianchi
Errores Irreales

Slide show

Diego Bianchi (*1969 Buenos Aires, lives in Buenos Aires) is considered one of Argentina’s leading artists and has, in particular, updated the concept of sculpture. For his installative and performative exhibition Errores Irreales at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Bianchi has assembled a selection of his sculptures that play with the concept of the body.

Slide show Diego Bianchi

Abaseh Mirvali
Artistic Director, viennacontemporary 

Video

The conversation between Abaseh Mirvali, director of viennacontemporary, and Sandro Droschl spans Diego Bianchi’s current exhibition and Celina Eceiza’s work in the context of Argentine art history to Mirvali’s many years of expertise and her international career. At the same time, her central role in the dynamic and innovative viennacontemporary 2025 was highlighted.

Abaseh Mirvali Talk

Celina Eceiza, Ofrenda,

Exhibition Tour
Celina Eceiza: Ofrenda

Video

A metabolic force governs the growth of Celina Eceiza’s work, which involves textile collages, sculptures, paintings and drawings — both tiny and colossal in scale — as laborious as they are elementary. The artist combines handcrafted textile techniques and processes such as patchwork, found object collages and, more recently, chalk pastels, which give her images a new sense of fluidity. 

Ausstellungsrundgang Celina Eceiza

Celina Eceiza
Ofrenda

Slide show

Ofrenda [Offering] presents a way of inhabiting a space as if the architecture were a body, breathing erratically, changing states as you pass from one room to the next. The rigidity of the building collapses as the walls are draped in thousands of metres of fabric joined together through the collective and timeless action of sewing, until they form a single smooth surface, sensitive to the slightest change.

Slide show Celina Eceiza

Morning Séance
alias Simone Borghi 

Video

Italian composer and sound artist Simone Borghi, alias Morning Séance, expands Celina Eceiza’s soft museum” in her exhibition Ofrenda at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark with his atmospheric, constantly changing music, using his musical performance to enable visitors to experience physicality, space, and perception in new ways. 

Morning Séance alias Simone Borghi

Annemarie Arzberger, dreamed awake,

Annemarie Arzberger
dreamed awake

Slide show

For HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark the artist has developed her first own performative presentation, with a setting for her puppets with three scenes set in an imaginary spaceship, an exhibition, and the spaces that the scenes depict: the Schlouflaboar, the Houloudecks, and the Space Grotto Disco. The piece is a combination of physical theater and puppetry, performed by the artist together with her sister Katharina Arzberger and accompanied by musical interludes arranged by Manuel Obriejtan.

Slide Show Annemarie Arzberger

Annemarie Arzberger
dreamed awake

Video

Annemarie Arzberger has developed her first original piece for HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, combining her lush, detailed, and often bizarre imagery into a multi-layered stage work that combines physical and puppet theater, dance, lipsync, music, and language. In a three-part, dreamlike theatrical spaceship setting, she brings psychological states, childlike imagination, and social issues to life through characters such as Dolores and the Angst sisters in a performative, poetic, playful, yet disturbing scenario.

Annemarie Arzberger dreamt awake

Evelyn Plaschg, Viscous City,

Vanessa Joan Müller, Evelyn Plaschg
Conversation 

Video

The book presentation accompanying Evelyn Plaschg’s exhibition Viscous City features a conversation between Vanessa Joan Müller, Sandro Droschl, and the artist herself. Müller’s essay Ansichten des Unbestimmten (Views of the Indefinite) describes Plaschg’s painting as a poetic-analytical reflection on the body, pictorial space, and urban experience, inviting an in-depth exchange on image, text, and perception.

Viscous City: Evelyn Plaschg, Vanessa Joan Müller

Evelyn Plaschg
Concert

Video

The video shows an excerpt from Evelyn Plaschg’s concert, which she presented as part of her exhibition Viscous City at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark. The artist’s sound performance enters into dialogue with her paintings on display.

Evelyn Plaschg concert

Evelyn Plaschg
Viscous City

Slide show

Evelyn Plaschg combines sophisticated technique and her own idiosyncratic imagery to produce a kind of painting that is figurative in ways that transcend all standard approaches.

Viscous City

Evelyn Plaschg
Artist Talk 

Video

Together, artist Evelyn Plaschg and curator Jan Tappe will speak about the process of painting, shifts within the artist’s practice, the role of photography as a point of departure, the presence of the body in the image, and a growing interest in urban spaces and infrastructures.

Evelyn Plaschg

Louise Giovanelli, A Song of Ascents,

Louise Giovanelli
A Song of Ascents

Slide show

Louise Giovanelli paints striking hypnotic works that emit light both on a visual and metaphorical level. Her works often show mysterious objects, such as a closed curtain, a glimmering shock of hair, or the reflecting surface of a cocktail glass. There are also human figures, often women, seemingly caught in moments between awe and desperation, or about to cross over a border of experience and knowledge.

A Song of Ascents

Louise Giovanelli and Marie-Charlotte Carrier
Artist Talk and Book Launch 

Video

On the occasion of her recently opened exhibition A Song of Ascents at the HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Louise Giovanelli will be in conversation with curator Marie-Charlotte Carrier. Carrier is a curator at the exhibition’s initiating partner organization, The Hepworth Wakefield (Yorkshire), where the exhibition was shown in advance. She is also the editor of the accompanying publication with texts, conversations and visual material on all the works on display. 

Louise Giovanelli, Marie-Charlotte Carrier

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