Context

Exhibition Tour
TARWUK: Бољи живоt

Video

Curator:
Cathrin Mayer 

Texts:
Cathrin Mayer

Translation:
Greg Bond

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

Editor:
Kevin Ferdinandus

Artists

Participating artists

TARWUK

(*2014 founded in New York): Ivana Vukšić (*1981 Dubrovnik, lives in New York), Bruno Pogaćnik Tremow (*1981 Zagreb, lives in New York)

Solo (et al.): White Cube, London (2023), Maramotti Collection, Emilia Romagana (2021), Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2021), Martos Gallery, New York (2020), Lauba, Zagreb (2020), Taito Ryokan, Tokyo (2019), Team Gallery, New York (2018), Museum of Fine Art, Osijek (2017), Ethnographical Museum of Istria, Pazin (2017), Essex Flowers, New York (2017), Museum of Fine Arts, Split (2017), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka (2016), Lauba, Zagreb (2015)
Shows (et al.): Drava Art Biennale, Lauba Zagbreb (2020), MLU, Osijek (2020), Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad (2018), Museum of Modern Art, Dubrovnik (2018), Art-O-Rama Marseille (2018), JTT, New York (2018), Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad (2018), Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing (2014), NARS Foundation Gallery, New York (2014)

More contributions

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

Performance Total Romance: Partial Repair
Isabel Lewis, Dirk Bell with vocalist, performer and artist Rupert Enticknap and performer and pole dancer Yann Slattery 

Video

The performance Total Romance: Partial Repair is the centerpiece of Isabel Lewis and Dirk Bell’s joint exhibition Ever/​Repair at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, and is performed by four performers. In… 

Performance Total Romance: Partial Repair Isabel Lewis, Dirk Bell with vocalist, performer and artist Rupert Enticknap and performer and pole dancer Yann Slattery