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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, 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

A.rtificial I.ntrospection O.
Exhibition Tour 

Slide show

The exhibition A.rtificial I.ntrospection O. (A.I.O.) explores questions of thought, perception, and subjectivity at the intersection of introspection, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence. Its point of departure is the work of the Austrian writer, cognitive psychologist, and cybernetician Oswald Wiener (1935 – 2021), whose genuine thinking since the 1950s critically navigated between these fields while systematically resisting institutional appropriation.

Slide Show A.rtificial I.ntrospection O.

Kathy Rae Huffman
FROM CYBERFEMINISM 
UNTIL NOW

Video

Kathy Rae Huffman’s lecture traces the evolution of cyberfeminism since the 1990s: it connected women in the digital sphere, challenged existing power structures, and presented examples — from VNS Matrix to contemporary digital activism — that highlight critiques of platform corporations, AI cultures, and global inequalities.

Kathy Rae Huffman 

Xol Meissner
Concert 

Video

New York-based artist Xol Meissner — the alter ego of composer Mauro Hertig — has transformed the HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark into a hypnotic soundscape of extraordinary intensity with his haunting music, which oscillates between contemporary classical and avant-garde rock.

Xol Meissner

Karin M. Schmidlechner 
Styrian women during and after National Socialism

Video

In her research and in the volume Aus dem Blickfeld (Out of Sight), co-edited with Heimo Halbrainer, Karin Maria Schmidlechner demonstrates that the lived realities of Styrian women during the Nazi era and the postwar period were diverse and ambivalent. Hence, she broadens the scholarly discourse on their daily lives while simultaneously deconstructing common narratives such as that of the conformist woman or the so-called rubble woman.”

Karin M. Schmidlechner 

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