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Exhibition Tour
Katherine Bradford: American Odyssey 

Video

Curated by Sandro Droschl

Texts: Sandro Droschl, Caro Feistritzer

Translation: Bryony Dawson, Caro Feistritzer

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

Editing: Fabian Edelbacher 

Artists

Participating artists

Katherine Bradford

*1942 New York, lives in Brooklyn and Maine

Solo (selection): kaufmann repetto, Milan (20242021),Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo (20242022), Kunsthalle Emden (2024), Frye Art Museum, Seattle (2023), Canada, New York (2023202120182016), Campoli Presti, Paris/​London (202320212019), Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg (2023), Portland Museum of Art (2022), Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2022, with Sedrick Chisom), Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT (2021), Carpenter Center for Visual Art, Harvard University, Cambridge (2021), Adams and Ollman, Portland (2020201820162014), Galerie Haverkampf, Berlin (20182017), Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Mailand (2017), Sperone Westwater, New York (2017), The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2017)

Shows (selection): Musée d‘Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2023), Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland (20232021), Kunsthaus Nürnberg (2023), Anton Kern Gallery, New York (20232022), Le Consortium, Dijon (2022), Bowdoin College Museum, Brunswick (202220192004), Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam/​New York (20212019), RISD Museum, Brown University, Providence (2021), Transcend, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile (2021), Pace Gallery, New York (2019), Prospect 4, U.S. Biennial, New Orleans (2017)

Her works are amongst others in the collections of Musée d‘Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Brooklyn Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Menil Collection, Houston and the Portland Museum of Art.

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 

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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 

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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