Context

Statements on affairs II.
Lorenza Longhi 

Video

The video is available in English

The new online series provides all who are interested with exciting insights into topics and questions about the artistic positions of the exhibitions. For the Artist-Statement, the artists are each asked five short questions, whereby new insights into their work emerge and a current reference to conceptual art is established. 

Lorenza Longhi (*1991 Lecco, lives in Zurich) appropriates graphic image materials from advertising and marketing industries, among others, through various artistic processes. By isolating and re-integrating them into art, the power structures hidden behind the imagery are made visible. For the HALLE FÜR KUNST, Longhi combines images of luxury consumer goods with echoes of modernist formal language and incorporates these elements into pavilion-like arrangements.

Artists

Participating artists

Lorenza Longhi

*1991 Lecco, lives in Zurich

Solo (et al.): Fanta, Milan (2022, 2019, 2016), Ordet, Milan (2022), Kunsthalle Zurich (2021), Weiss Falk, Basel (2021), Bungalow, Berlin (2020), La Plage, Paris (2019), Playmouth Rock, Zurich (2019); Shows (et al.): Layr, Vienna (2022), Swiss Art Awards, Messe Basel (2022), PART, Rimini (2022), Bonner Kunstverein (2022), MACRO, Museum of Contemporarty Art of Rome, Rome (2022), Kunstverein Bielefeld (2021), Fondazione Prada, Venice (2021), Stadtgalerie, Bern (2021), Le Commun, Geneva (2021), Deborah Schamoni, Munich (2021), 17.Quadriennale d’arte, Rom, Rome (2020), Grand Palais, Bern (2020), Hyphen, Milan (2019), Kunst Halle St.Gallen (2019)

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 

Video

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

STAGES
Jakob Kolb aka On Bells

Video

The STAGES format is as radical as it is simple. HALLE FÜRKUNST Steiermark offers a platform for artists from the immediate vicinity for the duration of an evening. The exhibition hall is intended to… 

Stages Jakob Kolb

Performance Total Romance: Partial Repair
Isabel Lewis, Dirk Bell with vocalist, performer and artist Rupert Enticknap and performer and pole dancer Yann Slattery 

Video

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