Context

Exhibition Tour: Steal, Kill and Destroy: A Thief Who Intended Them Maximum Harm
Doreen Garner 

Video

Please note that this video is available in English.

Besides the exhibition of Kevin Jerome Everson there are on the second exhibition level sculptural works by Doreen Garner, a young New York artist of African origin. The works are visually very expressive, Garner combines countless different materials such as silicone, beads, crystals, hair and fluorescent tubes. The artist’s works are reminiscent of injured bodies and pieces of flesh and address a dark chapter in American history. Garner points to traumatic events and injustices done to black bodies in the medical field. Especially in the 18th and 19th centuries, the bodies of African slaves were violated and abused by medicine in the name of progress. Garner makes us painfully aware of the effects of colonialism and racism and shows how they are evident in American history. 

Curator:
Cathrin Mayer

Texts:
Cathrin Mayer

Translation:
Gregory Bond

Voice:
Howard Curtis

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

Editor:
Kevin Ferdinandus

Artists

Participating artists

Doreen Garner

*1986 Philadelphia, lives in New York

studied at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.

Garner’s work has been presented at MoMA PS1, New York; The National Museum of African American History, Washington; and Pioneer Works, New York, among others. Garner has held residencies and fellowships at Recess Art, New York; the International Studio and Curatorial Program, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York; Pioneer Works, New York and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison. She is a licensed tattoo artist.
 

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

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… 

Stages Jakob Kolb

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