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Evelyn Plaschg: Viscous City
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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. Plaschg explores the medium of painting by depicting bodies, objects, and urban spaces without resorting to classical notions of representation or portraiture. Her fragmentary, faceless figures and recurring objects appear anonymous, vulnerable, and at the same time depersonalized, representing collective states or inner tensions rather than individuals. In an age of digital image production, in which bodies are constantly staged and standardized, Plaschg addresses these social issues and combines them with a painterly formal language that oscillates between presence and dissolution. Her more recent works increasingly shift the focus to urban structures, monotony, and serially repeated objects, which are transformed into atmospheres, emotions, and abstract forms through her painterly treatment. In doing so, she creates a peculiar dynamic in which repetition and alienation, physicality and dissolution, figuration and abstraction are equally present.
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Evelyn Plaschg
Solo exhibitions (selection): Paulina Caspari, Munich (2024), Scherben, Berlin (2024), Layr, Vienna (2023), Galerie Kirchgasse, Steckborn (2021), Canopy, Malmoe (2021), Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg (2021), Pina, Vienna (2020), Parallel Vienna, Vienna (2019), Zeller van Almsick, Vienna (2017).
Group exhibitions (selection): Esther II, New York (2025), Leopold Museum, Vienna (2024), Hard Scent Salon, Copenhagen (2024), Belvedere 21, Vienna (2023), The Grand Chelsea, New York (2023), Kunstverein Eisenstadt (2022), Basel Social Club, Basel (2022), Kunstverein Bremerhaven (2022), Smolka Contemporary, Vienna (2021), Belvedere 21, Vienna (2019), Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg (2018), Acappella, Naples (2018), Forum Stadtpark, Graz (2017), Glovebox, Auckland (2016), ENSBA, Paris (2016), Neuer Kunstverein, Vienna (2016), MUMOK, Vienna (2015).
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Eva Ursprung
The Art of Surfacing
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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 Susanne Wenger
Àdùnní Olórìṣà
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Susanne Wenger gilt als eine zentrale Künstlerin Österreichs nach 1945 und als frühe Wegbereiterin des Surrealismus. Ihr Œuvre, das Skulpturen, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Drucke und Batiken umfasst, überschreitet ästhetische Kategorien und verbindet Kunst, Spiritualität und Mythos.
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Diego Bianchi: Errores Irreales
Video
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 Bianchi Exhibition Tour
Celina Eceiza: Ofrenda
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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 Eceiza Annemarie Arzberger
dreamed awake
Slide show
For HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark the artist has developed her first own performative presentation, with a setting for her puppets with three scenes set in an imaginary spaceship, an exhibition, and the spaces that the scenes depict: the Schlouflaboar, the Houloudecks, and the Space Grotto Disco. The piece is a combination of physical theater and puppetry, performed by the artist together with her sister Katharina Arzberger and accompanied by musical interludes arranged by Manuel Obriejtan.
Slide Show Annemarie Arzberger Diego Bianchi
Errores Irreales
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Diego Bianchi (*1969 Buenos Aires, lives in Buenos Aires) is considered one of Argentina’s leading artists and has, in particular, updated the concept of sculpture. For his installative and performative exhibition Errores Irreales at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Bianchi has assembled a selection of his sculptures that play with the concept of the body.
Slide show Diego Bianchi Diego Bianchi
Errores Irreales
Performance
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Errores Irreales is only truly activated by the performance staged by Diego Bianchi himself in order to complete his theatrical installation, which takes physicality and its limits to a new level.
Diego Bianchi, Performance Celina Eceiza
Ofrenda
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Ofrenda [Offering] presents a way of inhabiting a space as if the architecture were a body, breathing erratically, changing states as you pass from one room to the next. The rigidity of the building collapses as the walls are draped in thousands of metres of fabric joined together through the collective and timeless action of sewing, until they form a single smooth surface, sensitive to the slightest change.
Slide show Celina Eceiza