Context

Winetasting & Anthropologic Walkabout
Gus Gluck 

Video

Please note that this video is available in English.

The London based wine specialist Gus Gluck conducts a wine tasting of the Greek wine Thymiopoulos Vineyards Naoussa Alta 2017. Gluck begins his lecture with the peculiarities of the selected wine, of the grape and the producer to follow up with an anthropological walkabout in Greeks northern region of Noussa, from which the wine derives. The wine serves Gluck as an event to give historical insights into the wine culture, the drinking habits, as well as into the wine-trade and the transport of wine in Greek Antiquity, at which the amphora and the Greek pottery culture plays an important role.

Gus Gluck (*London, lives in London) is a wine specialist based in London, as well as founder and owner of GB Wine Shippers, a british speciality store for wine from all over the world. In the year of 2018 he founded the international and award-winning winebar and restaurant Quality Wines Farringdon in London.

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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