Exhibition Tour
Diego Bianchi: Errores Irreales
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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 in order to activate them performatively in a specially created architectural setting. For the elaborate and detailed production of his mysterious yet sensitive sculptures, Bianchi uses not only conventional materials but also discarded objects found in the urban spaces of Buenos Aires, Paris, and Graz: these can be inconspicuous, small things that supposedly have no particular value or meaning, or car parts, metals, plastics, and fashion items. The result is a stage-like landscape of sculptures and installation interventions that play with the physical and the quasi-organic-inner in a dystopic and stylish way. In various overlapping settings — sometimes also activated by performers — it becomes a “nebulous whole” that is paradigmatic for the time in which we live. Bianchi uses humor as a subversive strategy to counteract the tragedy of existence and all the current crises by means of a utopian disturbing space.
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Diego Bianchi
Solo exhibitions (selection): Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Romainville (2025), New Performance Turku Biennale, Turku (2023), Museo abandonado, Dakar (2023), Marres, Maastricht (2023), Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid (2022), Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Romainville (2020), 11th Liverpool Biennial (2020), BIENALSUR, Córdoba (2019), BIENALSUR, Valparaíso (2017), Centro de creación contemporain, Madrid (2017), Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires (2017), Barro Gallery, Buenos Aires (2016), Wiener Festwochen (2015), Centro de Arte Experimental, Buenos Aires (2015), Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires (2010), Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires (2009), Centro Uno de Arte Contemporáneo, Rio Negro (2007).
Group exhibitions (selection): ARCOmadrid (2025), MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine (2024), Pivô, São Paulo (2024), macLYON, Lyon (2024), Bienal de Coimbra, Portugal (2024), Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Romainville (2024, 2023), Marres, Maastricht (2023), CAPC, Bordeaux (2023), Centre Pompidou, Metz (2022), Musée de la Haute Vienne Château de Rochechouart (2023), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires (2021), Centre d’art contemporaine de Normandie (2018), Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires (2017), MALBA, Buenos Aires (2015), Museo Arte Moderno Cuenca (2015), 13th Istanbul Biennial (2013), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Niteroi, Río de Janeiro (2007), 11th Biennale de Lyon (2012), X. Bienal de la Habana, Havanna (2009).
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A.rtificial I.ntrospection O.
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Slide show
The exhibition A.rtificial I.ntrospection O. (A.I.O.) explores questions of thought, perception, and subjectivity at the intersection of introspection, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence. Its point of departure is the work of the Austrian writer, cognitive psychologist, and cybernetician Oswald Wiener (1935 – 2021), whose genuine thinking since the 1950s critically navigated between these fields while systematically resisting institutional appropriation.
Slide Show A.rtificial I.ntrospection O. Dr. Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer
Susanne Wenger’s painting between Africa and Europe
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In her lecture, art historian and curator Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer examines Susanne Wenger’s work as a transcultural Gesamtkunstwerk that bridges European modernism and Yorùbá ritual practice, creating a new sacred aesthetic that merges art, ritual, and cultural boundaries.
Brigitte Borchardt Kathy Rae Huffman
FROM CYBERFEMINISM
UNTIL NOW
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Kathy Rae Huffman’s lecture traces the evolution of cyberfeminism since the 1990s: it connected women in the digital sphere, challenged existing power structures, and presented examples — from VNS Matrix to contemporary digital activism — that highlight critiques of platform corporations, AI cultures, and global inequalities.
Kathy Rae Huffman Xol Meissner
Concert
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New York-based artist Xol Meissner — the alter ego of composer Mauro Hertig — has transformed the HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark into a hypnotic soundscape of extraordinary intensity with his haunting music, which oscillates between contemporary classical and avant-garde rock.
Xol Meissner Karin M. Schmidlechner
Styrian women during and after National Socialism
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In her research and in the volume Aus dem Blickfeld (Out of Sight), co-edited with Heimo Halbrainer, Karin Maria Schmidlechner demonstrates that the lived realities of Styrian women during the Nazi era and the postwar period were diverse and ambivalent. Hence, she broadens the scholarly discourse on their daily lives while simultaneously deconstructing common narratives such as that of the conformist woman or the so-called “rubble woman.”
Karin M. Schmidlechner Eva Ursprung
The Art of Surfacing
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With the exhibition The Art of Surfacing, HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark presents the multifaceted work of Austrian artist, musician, and curator Eva Ursprung, who was awarded the Honorary Prize of the Province of Styria in 2024. Her cross-media, feminist, and socially critical approaches revolve around the element of water as a metaphor for change and political and ecological processes.
Slide show Eva Ursprung Susanne Wenger
Àdùnní Olórìṣà
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Susanne Wenger gilt als eine zentrale Künstlerin Österreichs nach 1945 und als frühe Wegbereiterin des Surrealismus. Ihr Œuvre, das Skulpturen, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Drucke und Batiken umfasst, überschreitet ästhetische Kategorien und verbindet Kunst, Spiritualität und Mythos.
Slide Show Susanne Wenger Tobias Boos
Chainsaws, crypto, corruption.
Argentina between populism and the radical right
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Tobias Boos is political scientist at the University of Vienna who specializes in Latin America, populism, and economic developments, such as Argentina’s crisis since the 2000s and current right-wing populist movements like that led by Javier Milei.
Tobias Boos