Context

Vanessa Joan Müller, Evelyn Plaschg
Conversation 

Video

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.

Evelyn Plaschg
Concert

Video

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.

Exhibition Tour
Louise Giovanelli: A Song of Ascents

Video

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.

Stefan Albl
The Renaissance of Sensuality. Titian around 1520

Video

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.

Exhibition Tour
Evelyn Plaschg: Viscous City

Video

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.

Evelyn Plaschg
Artist Talk 

Video

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.

Louise Giovanelli and Marie-Charlotte Carrier
Artist Talk and Book Launch 

Video

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. 

Rose-Anne Gush
Surrealism from a Global Perspective

Video

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.

Future of Melancholia
Exhibition Tour 

Video

A video by kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com offers a tour of 100 years of melancholic, surreal Belgrade: From the Serbian Surrealists to the individualistic ​“Neo-Surrealists” to contemporary art.

Florian Bieber
Society in motion? Protest movements in Serbia

Video

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.

Future of Melancholia in Belgrade
Katharina Höglinger, Anna Schachinger 

Video

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.

Nicole Streitler-Kastberger
The Man Without Qualities

Video

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.

Performance
On Kawara
Reading One Million Years

Video

A comprehensive video by kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com provides an insight into the performative reading of On Kawara’s One Million Years.

Exhibition Tour
Caroline Mesquita: Verdet Bath

Video

A comprehensive video by kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com enables a digital exhibition tour through the show. 

Exhibition Tour
Leon Höllhumer: The Feast 

Video

A comprehensive video by kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com enables a digital exhibition tour through the show. 

Lisa Le Feuvre
Great Women Sculptors

Video

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.

Julia Hoydis
Extinction Narratives – Narratives of the (Im)possible Ends of our World

Video

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.

Erwin Polanc, Oliver Klimpel — Evening Standards

Video

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.

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.

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. 

STAGES
Jakob Kolb aka On Bells

Video

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.

Exhibition Tour
Franz Kapfer: Atlanten — Ich oder das Chaos [Me or the Chaos]

Video

A comprehensive video by kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com enables a digital exhibition tour through the show. 

Exhibition Tour
Katherine Bradford: American Odyssey 

Video

A comprehensive video by kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com enables a digital exhibition tour through the show. 

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.

Artist talk with
Thomas D. Trummer and Franz Kapfer 

Video

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. 

The Uncanny within Visual Arts — August Ruhs

Video

In this lecture, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist August Ruhs will examine notions of the uncanny within visual arts.

Definite or indefinite or…? Debates on gender in art and politics 
Silvia Stoller 

Video

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.

Collective Memory and the Public Realm in the United States
Nassim W. Balestrini 

Video

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.

Exhibition Tour
RIDICULOUSLY YOURS! Art, Awkwardness and Enthusiasm

Video

A comprehensive video by kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com enables a digital exhibition tour through the show. 

Exhibition Tour
TARWUK: Бољи живоt

Video

A comprehensive video by kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com enables a digital exhibition tour through the show. 

Exhibition Tour
Fantastic Surrealists

Video

A comprehensive video by kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com enables a digital exhibition tour through the show. 

Give Rise To Marta Navaridas, Alex Deutinger & Manuel Riegler
MOTORA This Day is not Promised 

Video

Give Rise to Julius Pristauz
PROPAGANDA 

Video

An elaborately produced video shows impressions of the premiere of the play PROPAGANDA (2023) by Julius Pristauz at HALLE FÜR KUNST.

Statements IV.
Heinrich Dunst 

Video

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 on affairs III.
Studio For Propositional Cinema 

Video

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.

Exhibition Tour:
sink 
on affairs 

Video

A comprehensive video by kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com enables a digital exhibition tour through the show. 

Music for Drums — Jörg Mikula 

Video

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. 

On Conditions
Marina Vishmidt 

Video

A lecture by Marina Vishmidt (Goldsmiths, University of London) on conceptual work and its production.

Conceptual Art in Austria
Robert Fleck 

Video

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.

Statements on affairs II.
Lorenza Longhi 

Video

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 on affairs I.
Noah Barker 

Video

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.

Lensable Belief
Marc Siegel 

Video

In his talk, Siegel lectures on the queer concept of gossip in relation to the American underground film scene of the 1960s.

Exhibition Tour:
Systems of Belief

Video

A comprehensive video by kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com enables a digital exhibition tour through the show. 

Exile on Mainstream
Mark von Schlegell 

Video

Mark von Schlegell reflects on artistic production from different temporal levels and relates it to the cultural mainstream.

NFT Lecture
Anikó van Nie 

Video

The lecture is intended for artists and other groups of people interested in an in-depth introduction to the world of NFTs.

profil Talk
Systems of Belief

Video

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.

Give Rise To Sunny Pfalzer & Marshall Vincent
Rub your face onto a shoulder
10. – 11.9.2022

Video

The video shows footage from the performative installation by Sunny Pfalzer and Marshall Vincent.

ANIMAL PAIN
Mara-Daria Cojocaru 

Video

With her contribution ANIMAL PAIN philosophy lecturer and writer Mara-Daria Cojocaru ties in with themes from Yalda Afsah’s exhibition.

ANIMAL LOVE
Mara-Daria Cojocaru 

Video

With her contribution ANIMAL LOVE philosophy lecturer and writer Mara-Daria Cojocaru ties in with themes from Yalda Afsah’s exhibition.

ANIMAL
Mara-Daria Cojocaru 

Video

With her contribution ANIMAL philosophy lecturer and writer Mara-Daria Cojocaru ties in with themes from Yalda Afsah’s exhibition.

Give Rise To Omsk Social Club & Alexander Iezzi
Fucking Hardcore Self-Divinization Weekender
11. – 12.6.2022

Video

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.

12 Colors of Reality (Balloons), 1978 – 2011
Stano Filko 

Video

The article shows the 12 Colors of Reality (Balloons) by Stano Filko in its full glory in the Stadtpark in Graz.

Exhibition Tour:
A Retrospective
Stano Filko 

Video

A comprehensive video by kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com enables a digital exhibition tour through the show. 

About Multiplicity (System of Systems)
Lucia Gregorová Stach 

Video

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.

Stano Filko – Statement & Interview 
Hans Ulrich Obrist
with Roman Ondák & Koo Jeong A 

Video

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. 

Space is the Place
Mira Keratová 

Video

Slovak curator Mira Keratová examines Filko’s oeuvre in its tension between East and West.

House-Studio-Object-Cenotaph of Stano Filko
Boris Ondreička 

Video

An interesting opener into Filko’s work with artist, curator and companion Boris Ondreička.

Von fernen, fremden Welten
Christiane Helling 

Video

An introductory lecture on astrophysics, exoplanet research, and the Institute for Space Research by Christiane Helling.

A Ladder to the Universe:
Stano Filko and the Art of the Avant-Garde
Patricia Grzonka 

Video

Swiss art and architecture theorist Patricia Grzonka provides a fascinating insight into Filko’s work, fokusing on local and eastern art history.

The Modern Soul – Born from Double Death in Country and Factory
Jan Verwoert 

Video

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.

Give Rise to Colin Self
Typ the Ivy 

Video

An elaborately produced video shows impressions of the premiere of the experimental Opera Tip the Ivy (2022) by Colin Self at HALLE FÜR KUNST.

Exhibition Tour:
Domestic Drama

Video

A comprehensive video by kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com enables a digital exhibition tour through the show. 

Private Matter
Stefanie Kitzberger, Jenni Tischer 

Video

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.

Give Rise to Billy Bultheel & Viviana Abelson
UNTER KAMMERMUSIK 

Video

The video clip shows scenes from the performance UNTER KAMMERMUSIK (2021), which premiered at the Landeszeughaus by Billy Bultheel and Viviana Abelson.

Artist Talk
Kevin Jerome Everson 

Video

In this contribution, Kevin Jerome Everson introduces important cornerstones of his cinematic oeuvre and talks about the influences of his diverse art practice.

Exhibition Tour: Steal, Kill and Destroy: A Thief Who Intended Them Maximum Harm
Doreen Garner 

Video

A comprehensive video by kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com enables a digital exhibition tour through the show. 

Exhibition Tour: Recover
Kevin Jerome Everson 

Video

A comprehensive video by kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com enables a digital exhibition tour through the show. 

Context Art: Medical Apartheid
Harriet A. Washington 

Video

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.

Film Blackness
Michael Boyce Gillespie 

Video

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.

Give Rise to Armin Lorenz Gerold
Verstärkung (Amplification)

Video

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.

In Balance: Museum Ballett
Ann-Kathrin Adam & Lucie Horná 

Video

Two performers from Graz Opera create a dance commentary on the works and architecture of the exhibition Europe: Ancient Future.

Exhibition Tour: Europe: Ancient Future

Video

A comprehensive video by kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com enables a digital exhibition tour through the show. 

TGIF — Thank God it is Friday
Precious Nnebedum, Nancy Okeke & LEA 

Video

The video shows a Music & Poetry evening as part of TGIF, with the three Graz-based singer/​songwriters Precious Nnebedum, Nancy Okeke and LEA.

John Rawls
Lesekreis 

Video

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.

Aristoteles
Lesekreis 

Video

The contribution presents a text excerpt from Aristotele’s Politics and explains his views on the concepts of freedom and equality.

What remains?
Cevdet Erek 

Video

Turkish artist Cevdet Erek presents his work Bergama Stereo (2019), which deals with the appropriation, form and migration history of the famous Pergamon Altar.

Hatespeech
Franz Kapfer 

Video

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.

Politics and/​or Culture — What forms Europe?
Markus Prutsch 

Video

Dr. Markus Prutsch, in his role as a researcher for the European Parliament, speaks about European identity in the interplay between politics and culture.

Medea
Max Rehberg & Alicia Peckelsen 

Video

Two acting students from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz present a scene from Euripides’ Medea.

The European Dream
Rose-Anne Gush 

Video

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 Myth of Europe and its Appropriation
Annetta Alexandridis & Verity Platt 

Video

Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt talk from different perspectives about strategies of appropriation of ancient concepts and motifs by contemporary artists.

South as a State of Mind 
Marina Fokidis 

Video

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.

In Conversation
Jörg Heiser and Sandro Droschl 

Video

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.

Winetasting & Anthropologic Walkabout
Gus Gluck 

Video

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.

Intro
Europe: Ancient Future

Video

In this article, Sandro Droschl gives a short introduction on the exhibition Europe: Ancient Future.

The Leaking Bodies
Barbara Kapusta 

Video

In the video contribution, Barbara Kapusta stages a performance that further explores the themes of her series of works The Leaking Bodies (2020).