Susanne Wenger
Àdùnní Olórìṣà

Slide show

6.2.2026

Susanne Wenger, *Dream Visions*, 1943 – 44
Colored pencil on paper
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Susanne Wenger, *Àdùnní Olórìṣà*, 2026
Exhibition view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz
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Susanne Wenger, *The Returnees*, 1947
Oil on canvas
92 × 71 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *The Birds are not Invited*, 1947
Oil on canvas
62 × 76 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *The Lovers*, 1947
Oil on canvas
65 × 79 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *Encounter*, 1950
Oil on canvas
59 × 46 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *Odùduwà and Ẹ̀là*, 1979/82
Oil on plywood
122 × 61 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *The Great Festival of Ajagẹmọ*, 1958
àdìrẹ cassava-starch batik
200 × 391 cm
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Susanne Wenger, _Ọbàtálá Catches Ṣàngó’s Horse, 1958
àdìrẹ cassava-starch batik
Diptychon, each 216 × 84 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *Leopard, the Magical Earth Dimension*, 1959
àdìrẹ cassava-starch batik
262 × 257 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *Mọrèmi, Odùduwà Descends from Heaven*, 1959
àdìrẹ cassava-starch batik
142 × 160 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *Ọbàtálá, Alájere and the Antelope Àgbáńréré*, 1973
Wax batik, textile painting
195 × 240 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *The Python Snake and Odùduwà, Creation Myth*, 1977
Wax batik, textile painting
130 × 85 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *The Rooster of Odùduwà — Creation Myth*, 1975
Wax batik, textile painting
200 × 85 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *The Apocalyptic Rooster*, 1975
Wax batik, textile painting
60 × 60 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *Nàná Bùùkún, Ọbàtálá and Alájere Solar Power*, 1983
Wax batik, textile painting
235 × 247 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *The Blind Priest Ajagẹmọ*, 1989
Wax batik, textile painting
100 × 72 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *Gods in Exile*, 1998
Frame by Ajibike Ogunniyi (*New Sacred Art Movement*), 1998
Oil on plywood with metal frame
138 × 122 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *Ọbàtálá’s Violation of Taboo*, 1993
Frame by Ajibike Ogunniyi (*New Sacred Art Movement*), 1993
Oil on plywood with metal frame
122 × 81 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *Alájere Leopard*, 2001
Wax batik, textile painting
122 × 190 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *Ọ̀ṣun Àdùnní*, 1998
Wax batik, textile painting
39 × 29 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *Ọ̀ṣun Àdùnní*, 1998
Wax batik, textile painting
39 × 29 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *The Mutual Worship of the Orisha Alájere and Ọbàtálá*, 1998
Wax batik, textile painting
96 × 92 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *Palm Wine Taboo for Ọbàtálá*, 1996
Wax batik, textile painting
115 × 75 cm
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Susanne Wenger, *Ọbàtálá, Ìyá Mọòpó and the Wild Boar*, 1994
Wax batik, textile painting
105 × 55 cm
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Artists

Participating artists

Solo exhibitions (selection): Susanne Wenger Foundation, Krems (2020, 2015), Le Michael C. Carlos Museum à l’Université d’Emory, Atlanta (2016), Deutschvilla Strobl (2015), Museum der Völker, Schwaz (2015), Iwalewa House, Bayreuth (2009), Stadtmuseum Graz (2006, 1985), Kunsthalle Krems (2004, 1995), Universalmuseum Joanneum / Künstlerhaus Graz (2004), Galerie 422, Gmunden (2001), Künstlerhaus Wien (1985).

Group exhibitions (selection): Tate Modern, London (2025), Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade (2025), 60th Venice Biennale (2024), MUMOK, Vienna (2022), Landesgalerie Niederösterreich, Krems (2021), Galerie 422, Gmunden (2008, 2004), Neue Galerie Graz (2005, 2001), Kunsthalle Krems (2003), MoMA, New York (2002, 1979), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2001), Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2001), National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (2000), Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum, Mainz (1980), Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles (1969).

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Exhibition Tour

Slide show

9.6.2026

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.

Dr. Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer
Susanne Wenger’s painting between Africa and Europe

Video

19.3.2026

In her lecture, art historian and curator Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer examines Susanne Wenger’s work as a transcultural Gesamtkunstwerk that bridges European modernism and Yorùbá ritual practice, creating a new sacred aesthetic that merges art, ritual, and cultural boundaries.

Brigitte Borchardt

Kathy Rae Huffman
FROM CYBERFEMINISM
UNTIL NOW

Video

12.3.2026

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

7.3.2026

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

26.2.2026

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

Eva Ursprung
The Art of Surfacing

Slide show

6.2.2026

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

Tobias Boos
Chainsaws, crypto, corruption.
Argentina between populism and the radical right

Video

10.12.2025

Tobias Boos is political scientist at the University of Vienna who specializes in Latin America, populism, and economic developments, such as Argentina’s crisis since the 2000s and current right-wing populist movements like that led by Javier Milei.

Tobias Boos

Exhibition Tour
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Video

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Exhibition Tour Diego Bianchi