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Statements on affairs III.
Studio For Propositional Cinema 

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. 

The collective Studio For Propositional Cinema (founded 2013 in Berlin) works in different media and forms. In photographs, texts, installations, settings, and performances, Studio for Propositional Cinema develops very diverse groups of works that might address the history of collective work, or might also further develop various formats in the cultural context, or test out their limits. The work shown in this exhibition, by contrast, is rather an exploration of the artistic medium itself — photography. 

Artists

Participating artists

Studio For Propositional Cinema

*founded 2013 in Berlin

Solo (et al.): Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (2022), Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2022, 2015, 2014), Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf (2022), Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples (2019), Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen (2018), Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2017), Swiss Institute, New York (2017), Taylor Macklin, Zurich (2017), Bonner Kunstverein (2016), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2016), mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (2015); Shows (et al.): Galeria Wschód, Warschau (2022), km Kunstverein Munich (2021), Material, Zurich (2021), Layr, Vienna (2021), ML Fine Art, Milan (2020), Akademie-Galerie, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2019), Projektsrom Normanns, Stavanger (2019), Bielefelder Kunstverein (2018), Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2015), Leeschenhof, Quadriennale, Düsseldorf (2014)

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

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