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Eva Ursprung
The Art of Surfacing

Slide show

Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Performance exhibition opening

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Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Performance exhibition opening

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Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Performance exhibition opening

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Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Performance exhibition opening

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Eva Ursprung, Was Werbung, 1977/1994

Super‑8 Film, digitized, 2 min.

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Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Exhibition view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz

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Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Exhibition view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz

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Eva Ursprung, Eva Never Left Eden, 2013

Digital print with text

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Eva Ursprung, Garbage Patch Les Plages de Saint-Nazaire”, 2013 – 2026

Aquarium

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Eva Ursprung, Garbage Patch Les Plages de Saint-Nazaire”, 2013 – 2026

Aquarium

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Eva Ursprung, Garbage Patch Saraiki pludmales”, 2013 – 2026

Aquarium

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Eva Ursprung, Garbage Patch Saraiki pludmales”, 2013 – 2026

Aquarium

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Eva Ursprung, Garbage Patch Saraiki pludmales”, 2013 – 2026

Aquarium

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Eva Ursprung, Garbage Patch Plaže u Brsecû”, 2013 – 2026

Aquarium

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Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Exhibition view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz

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Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Exhibition view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz

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Eva Ursprung, Indigo Haven, 2023

Video, sound, 5:11 min.

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Eva Ursprung, Lighthouse, 2025

Lifebuoys with light

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Eva Ursprung, Lighthouse, 2025

Lifebuoys with light

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Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Exhibition view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz

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Eva Ursprung, Dock, 2026

6 plastic bales, 4 digital picture frames

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Eva Ursprung, Dock, 2026

6 plastic bales, 4 digital picture frames

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Eva Ursprung, Dock, 2026

6 plastic bales, 4 digital picture frames

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Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Exhibition view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz

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Eva Ursprung, Survive, 2024

Video, silent, 9 min.

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Eva Ursprung, Lead Lifebuoy, 2013

Lead ring on pedestal of Verde Danubia serpentinite

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Eva Ursprung, Lead Lifebuoy, 2013

Lead ring on pedestal of Verde Danubia serpentinite

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Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Exhibition view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz

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Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Exhibition view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz

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Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Exhibition view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz

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Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Exhibition view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz

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Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Exhibition view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz

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Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Exhibition view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz

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Eva Ursprung, 365 Days in the Earth Bunker, 2015

Video, silent with subtitles, 10:56 min.

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Eva Ursprung, 365 Days in the Earth Bunker, 2015

9 photographs of the NS-resistance fighters Johanna Grimming and Anna Winkler

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Eva Ursprung, Sign on the wall, 2022

Digital print

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Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Poem, photografs, riso prints, timeline, list of names of residents, map of subsidiary camps of Dachau

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Eva Ursprung, Feldafing to Next Moves, 2025

Poem, photografs, riso prints, timeline, list of names of residents, map of subsidiary camps of Dachau

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Eva Ursprung, Doors, 2022

Digital print

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Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Exhibition view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz

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Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Exhibition view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz

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Eva Ursprung, The Art of Surfacing, 2026

Exhibition view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz

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Artists

Participating artists

Eva Ursprung

*1959 Köflach, lives in Vienna

Solo and Group exhibitions, projects (selection):

Steirische Kulturinitiative (2025, 2024), kunstGarten, Graz (2025, 2021, 2016, 2011), Kunsthaus Graz (2025, 2021, 2012, 2007), prison wall Justizanstalt Karlau, XENOS & Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark, Graz (2024), Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta (2023), BACC (Bangkok Art and Culture Center) (2023), La Terminal Zawp, MEM Festical, Bilbao (2023), IMA Institut für Medienarchäologie, St. Pölten (2022), Künstlerhaus München, Munich (2022), Schaumbad Freies Atelierhaus Graz (2021, 2018, 2008), Steirischer Herbst, Graz (2020, 2014, 2013, 2006, 1999), <rotor>, Graz (2019), Gakerija ALU, Sarajewo (2018), Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt (2017), POST, Los Angeles (2016), Flux Factory, New York (2016), Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania (2015), Les Kurbas National Theatre Arts Center, Kiew (2014), APO33, La Plateforme Intermédia, La Fabrique, Nantes (2014), MAD Emerging Art Center, Eindhoven (2013), Literaturhaus Graz (2011), Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina / Institut für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Novi Sad (2011), Stadtmuseum Graz (2010), galerie wildwechsel, Frankfurt am Main (2008), Freiraum Transeuropa / PiroschkaREV, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna (2004), Cornerhouse, Manchester (2002), Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk (2002), The Substation, Singapore (2002), Ottis Gallery, Los Angeles (1998).

More contributions

Susanne Wenger
Àdùnní Olórìṣà

Slide show

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
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

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

Abaseh Mirvali
Artistic Director, viennacontemporary 

Video

The conversation between Abaseh Mirvali, director of viennacontemporary, and Sandro Droschl spans Diego Bianchi’s current exhibition and Celina Eceiza’s work in the context of Argentine art history to Mirvali’s many years of expertise and her international career. At the same time, her central role in the dynamic and innovative viennacontemporary 2025 was highlighted.

Abaseh Mirvali Talk