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In Balance: Museum Ballett
Ann-Kathrin Adam & Lucie Horná 

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HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark has organized a dance performance as part of the exhibition Europe: Ancient Future. 

Ann-Kathrin Adam and Lucie Horná, both dancers of the Opera Graz, will use the exhibition space for an improvised, dance commentary and will make the works, as well as the architecture of the space, appear once again in a different and dynamic way. The space will be rethought: How can we perceive art through our bodies? How do visual positions interact with the medium of dance?

Music recording: Balanescu Quartet.
Text: ​“If” by Rudyard Kipling.

Ann-Kathrin Adam was born in Germany and trained at the John Cranko School in Stuttgart. In 2005 she was engaged in the ballet of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where she danced first under the direction of Youri Vamos and then under Martin Schläpfer as a soloist. In 2017, she was awarded the Förderpreis für darstellende Künste of the city of Düsseldorf. Since summer 2019 she dances at the Opera Graz.

Lucie Horná comes from the Czech Republic, where she already started her ballet training. From 2006 she moved to the Vienna State Opera Ballet School, where she graduated in 2016. In the 2016/2017 season, she was part of the Vienna State Opera Youth Company and participated in performances with the State Ballet. The following season she was engaged in the ensemble of the South Bohemian Theatre in Budweis. From the 2018/19 season Lucie Horná is a member of the Graz Opera Ballet.

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