Art Education

In order to encourage visitors to see and approach art on various levels, the mediation department of HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark offers formats designed specifically to address different target groups. Concieved as programs to provide information, while offering dialogue and exchange, the focus is also to present art in an enjoyable way. 

In addition to special guided tours for school and university students, we offer tours for visitors in the Walk & Talk series.

Within the context of the exhibitions, we regularly offer tours through the exhibition. Dates and further information can be found on our program site.

Coole Schule Tour for Students 
Free Entry to the exhibition
Tour: 1 Euro per person 

Academy Tour for university students 
Free Entry to the exhibition
Exhibition ticket: 1 Euro per person

Inquiries:
cf@​halle-​fuer-​kunst.​at; 0316 740084 11

If you are interested in any of the formats, please do not hesitate to contact Caro Feistritzer (cf@​halle-​fuer-​kunst.​at; +43 316 740084 11).

In addition to individual appointments for groups, there is a public tour through the exhibition every Saturday at 11 am, which can be attended without prior registration.

The exhibition Future of Melancholia considers melancholy as a state of mind that matches the complex times in which we are living. This is a phenomenon and a reaction to the challenges of populist developments around the world, in the form of a withdrawal from political and public life and a turn to the private realm. The exhibition particularly looks at how artists explore this heavy-heartedness and introspection that also reflect an inner conflict between tradition and progress. Often, they turn to the surreal and dream-like, which offer opportunities to address the interplay between inner sentiment and the state of the outside world.

The exhibition at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark (HK Styria) in Graz presents three generations of artists from Serbia, exploring the continuities of surrealist imagery from the 1920s to the present, with historical positions from the surrealist group around Marko Ristić, Vane Bor, Radojica Živanović Noe, and others, who were the founders of surrealism in Serbia and who interacted internationally with other surrealist artists. From the 1950s to 1990s various positions emerged with profoundly individual approaches and poetics presented in the practices of artists such as Ilija Bašičević, Ljiljana Blaževska, Olga Jevrić, Bogoljub Jovanović, Radomir Reljić, Leonid Šejka, Sava Sekulić, and Milica Zorić. Through figuration or abstract forms, a metaphysical view, elements of the surreal, manifestations steeped in allegory, or the exploration of the relationship between spirit and matter, these artists produced unique renderings of immediate reality and the experiences of the world. The exhibition also presents contemporary Serbian artists, who, like their Austrian contemporaries whose works are shown in Belgrade, use allegories of the surreal and nostalgia that envision fantastic, atmospheric, and sometimes bleak worlds. Like their predecessors, this generation, represented here by Lidija Delić, Biljana Đurđević, Milena Dragicevic, Marko Obradović, and Saša Tkačenko, can also be described as idiosyncratic – a generation that, in new contexts, connects with other artists across borders in order to enter into a supranational and multilateral dialogue.