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Exhibition Tour
Caroline Mesquita: Verdet Bath

Video

Curated by Jan Tappe

Text: Caroline Mesquita, Caro Feistritzer & Jan Tappe 

Translation: Bryony Dawson, Caro Feistritzer

Camera & Sound:
kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com, Manuel Carreon Lopez

Editing: Fabian Edelbacher 

Artists

Participating artists

Caroline Mesquita

*1989, Brest, lives in Marseille

Solo exhibitions (selection): T293, Rom (2024, 2022, 2017), HAB Gallery, Nantes (2024), Bourse du travail Centre d’art, Valence (2023), Villa Medicis, Rome (2023), Le Parvis Centre d’Art contemporain, Tarbes (2022), CAN, Centre d’art Neuchâtel (2022), Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (2021), Statement, Art Basel, with Union Pacific (2021), Pivô, São Paulo (2020), Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain, Brest (2020), carlier / gebauer, Berlin (2019, 2015), Fondazione Arnoldo Pomodoro, Milan (2019), Galeria Municipal de Porto (2019), Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2018), Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Centre Pompidou, MAM, Paris (2018), SALTS, Basel (2017), 221A, Vancouver (2017), Kunstverein Langenhagen (2016), MOT International, Brussels (2016), SpazioA, Pistoia (2015), Union Pacific, London (2015).

Group exhibitions (selection): Contemporaine de Nîmes (with Laure Prouvost) (2024), Mucem, Marseille (2022), Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence (2022), Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara (2021), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019, 2012), Folkwang Museum, Essen (2019), Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2019), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main (2019), Parcours Art Basel (2018), La Loge, Brussels (2018), Fondation Ricard, Paris (2017, 2015, 2013), Sans Titre, Paris (2017), The Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2014).

More contributions

STAGES — Hanna Besenhard 

Slide show

Hanna Besenhard_Starry Hours_,2025

The recurring format of STAGES is as radical as it is simple: young artists from Graz and Styria are offered a stage for the duration of an evening – or ocasionally longer. HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark… 

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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

STAGES
Jakob Kolb aka On Bells

Video

The STAGES format is as radical as it is simple. HALLE FÜRKUNST Steiermark offers a platform for artists from the immediate vicinity for the duration of an evening. The exhibition hall is intended to… 

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