Louise Giovanelli and Marie-Charlotte Carrier
Artist Talk and Book Launch
Video
The joint discussion between Louise Giovanelli and Marie-Charlotte Carrier leads through the conception of the exhibition and the motivation and realization of the individual works of art. In particular, the central thematic issues of the project will be discussed, which focus on spirituality and ecstasy, not least youthfulness, music and other spheres that can be reached through these.
Giovanelli’s working method is characterized by the precise layering of highly pigmented oil paints, from which the plasticity and luminosity of her paintings derive. The representation of the ephemeral, the transitional and the exaggerated are at the heart of her art, which is a play on ambiguity that invites the viewer to cross thresholds between reality and fantasy.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an 80-page English-language publication of the same title, edited by The Hepworth Wakefield, and available via HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark as project partner. It will include a text by Phoebe Cripps, a conversation with Louise Giovanelli and Marie-Charlotte Carrier, a pop quiz by Charlie Fox, and poems by Helenskià Collett, with reproductions and illustrations of all the works shown in the exhibition.
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Louise Giovanelli
Solo exhibitions (selection): Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2025), TANK Shanghai (2025), GRIMM, New York (2025, 2023, 2021, 2020), Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire (2024), He Art Museum, Foshan (2024), White Cube, Hong Kong (2024), Moon Grove, Manchester (2023), GRIMM, Amsterdam (2020), Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool (2022, 2016), White Cube Bermondsey, London (2022), Frutta Gallery, Rome (2019), Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (2019), Workplace Foundation, Gateshead (2019), Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Warrington (2019).
Group exhibitions (selection): AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (2025, 2024, 2021), Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas (2025, 2022), Hastings Contemporary, Hastings (2024), Nasjonal Museet, Oslo (2024), The Courtauld Gallery, London (2024), Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2024), Hill Art Foundation, New York (2023), FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2023), CICA, Vancouver (2023), White Cube, Seoul (2023), Kasmin, New York (2022), Marlborough, London (2022), Hayward Gallery, London (2021), CLEARING, New York (2020), Air de Paris, Romainville (2020), Pablos Birthday Gallery, New York (2019), Arcade Gallery, London (2019).
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Eva Ursprung
The Art of Surfacing
Slide show
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 Exhibition Tour
Diego Bianchi: Errores Irreales
Video
Diego Bianchi’s immersive sculptural installations reinterpret the concepts of sculpture and of the torso, taking seriously the sensitivity and distress of the human body as subjected to manifold pressures, and expanding and updating its forms of expression.
Exhibition Tour Diego Bianchi Exhibition Tour
Celina Eceiza: Ofrenda
Video
A metabolic force governs the growth of Celina Eceiza’s work, which involves textile collages, sculptures, paintings and drawings — both tiny and colossal in scale — as laborious as they are elementary. The artist combines handcrafted textile techniques and processes such as patchwork, found object collages and, more recently, chalk pastels, which give her images a new sense of fluidity.
Ausstellungsrundgang Celina Eceiza Annemarie Arzberger
dreamed awake
Slide show
For HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark the artist has developed her first own performative presentation, with a setting for her puppets with three scenes set in an imaginary spaceship, an exhibition, and the spaces that the scenes depict: the Schlouflaboar, the Houloudecks, and the Space Grotto Disco. The piece is a combination of physical theater and puppetry, performed by the artist together with her sister Katharina Arzberger and accompanied by musical interludes arranged by Manuel Obriejtan.
Slide Show Annemarie Arzberger Diego Bianchi
Errores Irreales
Slide show
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.
Slide show Diego Bianchi Diego Bianchi
Errores Irreales
Performance
Slide show
Errores Irreales is only truly activated by the performance staged by Diego Bianchi himself in order to complete his theatrical installation, which takes physicality and its limits to a new level.
Diego Bianchi, Performance Celina Eceiza
Ofrenda
Slide show
Ofrenda [Offering] presents a way of inhabiting a space as if the architecture were a body, breathing erratically, changing states as you pass from one room to the next. The rigidity of the building collapses as the walls are draped in thousands of metres of fabric joined together through the collective and timeless action of sewing, until they form a single smooth surface, sensitive to the slightest change.
Slide show Celina Eceiza