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As part of the exhibition A.rtificial I.ntrospection O., Michael Krebber speaks with Sandro Droschl about his artistic practice and his engagement with the writings and conceptual models of Oswald Wiener.
Michael Krebber in conversation with Sandro DroschlVideo
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 BorchardtVideo
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 HuffmanVideo
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 MeissnerVideo
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. SchmidlechnerVideo
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 BoosVideo
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 EceizaVideo
Diego Bianchi’s immersive sculptural installations reinterpret the concepts of sculpture and of the torso, taking seriously the sensitivity and distress of the human body as subjected to manifold pressures, and expanding and updating its forms of expression.
Exhibition Tour Diego BianchiVideo
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 TalkVideo
Italian composer and sound artist Simone Borghi, alias Morning Séance, expands Celina Eceiza’s “soft museum” in her exhibition Ofrenda at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark with his atmospheric, constantly changing music, using his musical performance to enable visitors to experience physicality, space, and perception in new ways.
Morning Séance alias Simone BorghiVideo
Annemarie Arzberger has developed her first original piece for HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, combining her lush, detailed, and often bizarre imagery into a multi-layered stage work that combines physical and puppet theater, dance, lipsync, music, and language. In a three-part, dreamlike theatrical spaceship setting, she brings psychological states, childlike imagination, and social issues to life through characters such as Dolores and the Angst sisters in a performative, poetic, playful, yet disturbing scenario.
Annemarie Arzberger dreamt awakeVideo
The book presentation accompanying Evelyn Plaschg’s exhibition Viscous City features a conversation between Vanessa Joan Müller, Sandro Droschl, and the artist herself. Müller’s essay Ansichten des Unbestimmten (Views of the Indefinite) describes Plaschg’s painting as a poetic-analytical reflection on the body, pictorial space, and urban experience, inviting an in-depth exchange on image, text, and perception.
Viscous City: Evelyn Plaschg, Vanessa Joan MüllerVideo
In her exhibition, A Song of Ascents, Louise Giovanelli explores the expansion of consciousness through spirituality and sensuality. Her colorful, hyperrealistic paintings blend classical techniques with fantastical motifs to depict emotional experiences in hedonistic scenes from theaters and working-class clubs.
Exhibition Tour Louise GiovanelliVideo
The video shows an excerpt from Evelyn Plaschg’s concert, which she presented as part of her exhibition Viscous City at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark. The artist’s sound performance enters into dialogue with her paintings on display.
Evelyn Plaschg concertVideo
In his lecture, Dr. Stefan Albl discusses Titian’s art and its influence on the development of Renaissance painting, drawing parallels with the work of the artist Louise Giovanelli.
Stefan Albl The Renaissance of Sensuality. Titian around 1520Video
The exhibition Viscous City shows around twenty-five works by Evelyn Plaschg and provides a comprehensive insight into her painting practice, which moves between figuration and abstraction.
Exhibition Tour Evelyn PlaschgVideo
Together, artist Evelyn Plaschg and curator Jan Tappe will speak about the process of painting, shifts within the artist’s practice, the role of photography as a point of departure, the presence of the body in the image, and a growing interest in urban spaces and infrastructures.
Evelyn PlaschgVideo
On the occasion of her recently opened exhibition A Song of Ascents at the HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Louise Giovanelli will be in conversation with curator Marie-Charlotte Carrier. Carrier is a curator at the exhibition’s initiating partner organization, The Hepworth Wakefield (Yorkshire), where the exhibition was shown in advance. She is also the editor of the accompanying publication with texts, conversations and visual material on all the works on display.
Louise Giovanelli, Marie-Charlotte CarrierVideo
Rose-Anne Gush’s lecture analyzes the political aesthetics of Surrealism and its anti-colonial and anti-fascist orientations through artistic practices in Paris and Martinique between 1920 and 1960.
Rose-Anne Gush Surrealismus aus einer globalen PerspektiveVideo
A video by kunst-dokumentation.com offers a tour of 100 years of melancholic, surreal Belgrade: From the Serbian Surrealists to the individualistic “Neo-Surrealists” to contemporary art.
Exhibition Tour: Future of MelancholiaVideo
In his lecture, Prof. Dr. Florian Bieber explained that the authoritarian structures in Serbia can still be traced back to Milošević’s rule and were further consolidated under President Vučić.
Florian Bieber Society in motion? Protest movements in SerbiaVideo
In a joint discussion with Sandro Droschl, Katharina Höglinger and Anna Schachinger discussed their practices and their specific contexts to Future of Melancholia in more detail.
Future of Melancholia in Belgrade: Katharina Höglinger, Anna SchachingerVideo
Robert Musil’s novel The Man Without Qualities is considered an interdiscursive work that raises questions and tensions that are still valid today. In a conversation with Sandro Droschl, Musil expert Nicole Streitler-Kastberger has taken a precise approach to the monumental work and discussed these questions in more detail.
Nicole Streitler-Kastberger Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften: Wirklichkeitssinn und MöglichkeitssinnVideo
A comprehensive video by kunst-dokumentation.com provides an insight into the performative reading of On Kawara’s One Million Years.
Ausstellungsrundgang On KawaraVideo
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Ausstellungsrundgang Caroline MesquitaVideo
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Ausstellungsrundgang HöllhumerVideo
The extensive publication Great Women Sculptors, co-edited by Le Feuvre was recently published by Phaidon in collaboration with the Holt/Smithson Foundation. It gathers more than 300 female artists who have been excluded from institutions and the canon based on their gender.
Lisa Le FeuvreVideo
In her lecture, Julia Hoydis will explore how fictional narratives deal with hope, loss and end-time scenarios against the backdrop of endings and finiteness, which manifest itself through hope and acceptance, but also through resilience and solutions.
Julia HoydisVideo
For his most recent project, Evening Standards, Erwin Polanc spent twelve weeks in London, where he approached various urban communities and their stories through portrait photography and the documentation of urban situations.
Erwin Polanc, Oliver Klimpel - Evening StandardsVideo
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 DiederichsenVideo
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 – LectureVideo
The STAGES format is as radical as it is simple. HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark offers a platform for artists from the immediate vicinity for the duration of an evening.
Stages Jakob KolbVideo
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Exhibition tour Franz Kapfer:Video
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exhibition tour katherine bradfordVideo
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.
Performance Total Romance: Partial Repair Isabel Lewis, Dirk Bell with vocalist, performer and artist Rupert Enticknap and performer and pole dancer Yann SlatteryVideo
It is now more than five years ago, since Thomas D. Trummer and Franz Kapfer last worked together: reason enough for them to come together again as part of the exhibition at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, to pick up the threads of their shared dialogues, to see how their work has developed — and, above all, to let the audience participate in this reunion.
Artist talk with Thomas D. Trummer and Franz KapferVideo
In this lecture, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist August Ruhs will examine notions of the uncanny within visual arts.
The Uncanny within Visual Arts - August RuhsVideo
Katherine Bradford’s painting can be located in the tradition of abstract expressionism, particularly in colour field painting. During her very personal American Odyssey, she developed her very own style: interweaving abstraction and the figurative she creates very special bodies. The bodies’ faces often lack facial expressions.
Silvia StollerVideo
Drawing on examples of US-American monuments, Prof. Dr. Nassim W. Ballestrini’s lecture will discuss collective memory in terms of contemporary debates in the US. Monuments, memorials as well as art in public space contribute significantly to a nation’s culture of remembrance, reflecting political currents and are therefore highly political.
BalestriniVideo
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ausstellungsrundgang ERNSTHAFT?!Video
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ausstellungsrundgang tarwukVideo
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ausstellungsrundgang fantastic surrealistsVideo
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An elaborately produced video shows impressions of the premiere of the play PROPAGANDA (2023) by Julius Pristauz at HALLE FÜR KUNST.
Give Rise to Julius PristauzVideo
The new online series statements provides all who are interested with exciting insights into topics and questions about the artistic positions of the exhibitions.
Statements - Heinrich DunstVideo
The new online series statements provides all who are interested with exciting insights into topics and questions about the artistic positions of the exhibition on affairs.
Statements - Studio For Propositional CinemaVideo
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Exhibition Tour - sink / on affairsVideo
Graz-born drummer Jörg Mikula presents his program of solo pieces from the concept album Music For Drums in the large exhibition hall of the HALLE FÜR KUNST. Mikula cultivates an innovative approach to his instrument and creates sound atmospheres that lead through different musical worlds.
Music for Drums - Jörg MikulaVideo
A lecture by Marina Vishmidt (Goldsmiths, University of London) on conceptual work and its production.
Marina Vishmidt - On ConditionsVideo
An exciting lecture by Robert Fleck, art historian and professor at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, provides insights into the development of conceptual art in Austria.
Robert Fleck - Konzeptkunst in ÖsterreichVideo
The new online series statements provides all who are interested with exciting insights into topics and questions about the artistic positions of the exhibition on affairs.
Statements - Lorenza LonghiVideo
The new online series statements provides all who are interested with exciting insights into topics and questions about the artistic positions of the exhibition on affairs.
Statements - Noah BarkerVideo
In his talk, Siegel lectures on the queer concept of gossip in relation to the American underground film scene of the 1960s.
Lensable Belief - Marc SiegelVideo
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Exhibition Tour - Systems of BeliefVideo
Mark von Schlegell reflects on artistic production from different temporal levels and relates it to the cultural mainstream.
Exile on Mainstream – Mark von SchlegellVideo
The lecture is intended for artists and other groups of people interested in an in-depth introduction to the world of NFTs.
NFT Lecture - Anikó van NieVideo
The 2022 issue of profil Talk is devoted to the relationship between technology and society and art in connection with the Systems of Belief exhibition.
profil Talk - Systems of BeliefVideo
The video shows footage from the performative installation by Sunny Pfalzer and Marshall Vincent.
Give Rise to Sunny Pfalzer & Marshall VincentVideo
With her contribution ANIMAL PAIN philosophy lecturer and writer Mara-Daria Cojocaru ties in with themes from Yalda Afsah’s exhibition.
TIERLEID - Mara-Daria CojocaruVideo
With her contribution ANIMAL LOVE philosophy lecturer and writer Mara-Daria Cojocaru ties in with themes from Yalda Afsah’s exhibition.
TIERLIEBE - Mara-Daria CojocaruVideo
With her contribution ANIMAL philosophy lecturer and writer Mara-Daria Cojocaru ties in with themes from Yalda Afsah’s exhibition.
TIER - Mara-Daria CojocaruVideo
In the 4th performance from the series Give Rise To, Omsk Social Club and Alexander Iezzi collaborate. The video presents high-quality footage of the performance.
Give Rise to Omsk Social Club & Alex IezziVideo
The article shows the 12 Colors of Reality (Balloons) by Stano Filko in its full glory in the Stadtpark in Graz.
12 Colors of Reality - Stano FilkoVideo
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Tour - Stano Filko: A RetrospectiveVideo
A lecture by Lucia Gregorová Stach, Chief Curator of the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava, on the idea of the archive in the work of Stano Filko.
Über Multiplizität (System der Systeme) – Lucia Gregorová StachVideo
In an extensive interview between Stano Filko and Hans Ulrich Obrist central notions of artistic access are elaborated. A current statement by the well known curator introduces the historical talk.
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Interview & StatementVideo
Slovak curator Mira Keratová examines Filko’s oeuvre in its tension between East and West.
Space is the Place - Mira KeratováVideo
An interesting opener into Filko’s work with artist, curator and companion Boris Ondreička.
House-Studio-Object-Cenotaph of Stano Filko Boris OndreickaVideo
An introductory lecture on astrophysics, exoplanet research, and the Institute for Space Research by Christiane Helling.
Von fernen, fremden Welten - Christiane HellingVideo
Swiss art and architecture theorist Patricia Grzonka provides a fascinating insight into Filko’s work, fokusing on local and eastern art history.
Stano Filko und die Kunst der Avantgarden - Patricia GrzonkaVideo
Conventionally, the big city is celebrated as the birthplace of modern art. Filko‘s life and work, however, cross the divide between the rural and urban.
Jan Verwoert - Modern Soul Born from Double Death in Country and FactoryVideo
An elaborately produced video shows impressions of the premiere of the experimental Opera Tip the Ivy (2022) by Colin Self at HALLE FÜR KUNST.
Give Rise to Colin SelfVideo
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Exhibition Tour - Domestic DramaVideo
In the contribution, the art historian Stefanie Kitzberger and the artist Jenni Tischer address the different meanings of the two conceptual pairs of privacy and public sphere and discuss them on the basis of selected works.
Private Matter - Stefanie Kitzberger, Jenni TischerVideo
The video clip shows scenes from the performance UNTER KAMMERMUSIK (2021), which premiered at the Landeszeughaus by Billy Bultheel and Viviana Abelson.
Give Rise to Billy Bultheel & Viviana AbelsonVideo
In this contribution, Kevin Jerome Everson introduces important cornerstones of his cinematic oeuvre and talks about the influences of his diverse art practice.
Artist Talk - Kevin Jerome EversonVideo
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Exhibition Tour: Steal, Kill and Destroy: A Thief Who Intended Them Maximum HarmVideo
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Exhibition Tour: RecoverVideo
In the Context Art series, the focus is on the discourses surrounding the exhibitions. The article discusses the publication Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington and demonstrates the importance of the themes for the exhibition of Doreen Garner.
Kontext Kunst - Harriet A. WashingtonVideo
In the Context Art series, the focus is on the discourses around the exhibitions. The article discusses perspectives on Black Film based on the publication Film Blackness by Michael Boyce Gillespie.
Kontext Kunst - Michael Boyce GillespieVideo
The contribution offers insights into Armin Lorenz Gerold’s performance Verstärkung (Amplification), which took place in the context of the performance series Give Rise to.. initiated by Cathrin Mayer at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark.
Give Rise to Armin Lorenz Gerold - Verstärkung (Amplification)Video
Two performers from Graz Opera create a dance commentary on the works and architecture of the exhibition Europe: Ancient Future.
MuseumsballettVideo
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Exhibition Tour: Europe: Ancient FutureVideo
The video shows a Music & Poetry evening as part of TGIF, with the three Graz-based singer/songwriters Precious Nnebedum, Nancy Okeke and LEA.
TGIF IVideo
The video presents an introduction to the basic ideas of Rawls’ theory of justice, taking up important concepts such as equality as well as Rawl’s central concept of the primordial state.
Lesekreis RawlsVideo
The contribution presents a text excerpt from Aristotele’s Politics and explains his views on the concepts of freedom and equality.
Lesekreis AristotelesVideo
Turkish artist Cevdet Erek presents his work Bergama Stereo (2019), which deals with the appropriation, form and migration history of the famous Pergamon Altar.
Was bleibt - Cevdet ErekVideo
Franz Kapfer performs together with his installation In the back the ruins of Europe (2019 — 2021) and thus addresses the slogans of right-wing extremist ideologues.
Die Sprache des Hasses - Franz KapferVideo
Dr. Markus Prutsch, in his role as a researcher for the European Parliament, speaks about European identity in the interplay between politics and culture.
Politik oder Kultur - PrutschVideo
Two acting students from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz present a scene from Euripides’ Medea.
Medea - Max Rehberg & Alicia PeckelsenVideo
The contribution shows a performance by Rose-Anne Gush and her students at the Institute of Contemporary Art at TU Graz, which deals with different ideologies within Europe.
The European Dream - Rose-Anne GushVideo
Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt talk from different perspectives about strategies of appropriation of ancient concepts and motifs by contemporary artists.
Der Mythos Europa - Annetta Alexandridis und Verity PlattVideo
In her online lecture, Marina Fokidis talks about essential aspects of her curatorial practice, contemporary art in Athens, and her projects related to documenta 14.
South as a State of Mind - Marina FokidisVideo
Sandro Droschl talks with Jörg Heiser about Europe: Ancient Future and provides interesting insights into the concept of the exhibition and its reflections on the cultural understanding of Europe.
IN CONVERSATION: Jörg Heiser and Sandro DroschlVideo
During a tasting, wine specialist Gus Gluck will provide insights into the wine region of Noussa, the characteristics of Greek grape varieties and, in addition, Greek pottery.
Winetasting - Gus GluckVideo
In this article, Sandro Droschl gives a short introduction on the exhibition Europe: Ancient Future.
Intro - Europe: Ancient FutureVideo
In the video contribution, Barbara Kapusta stages a performance that further explores the themes of her series of works The Leaking Bodies (2020).
The Leaking Bodies - Barbara Kapusta
