Kevin Jerome Everson Recover 
Doreen Garner Steal, Kill and Destroy: A Thief Who Intended Them Maximum Harm
Opening 

HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark is delighted to present the fall program 2021 with two large solo exhibitions of the work of the Afro-American artists Kevin Jerome Everson and Doreen Garner. These two exhibitions mark a further highlight for the new institution in its inaugural year 2021. The artistic positions of Everson and Garner draw attention to political discourses in the USA, and in particular to the lives of Afro-Americans past and present.

While Kevin Jerome Everson accompanies various black communities in the USA, documenting their lives and places of work with his camera, the young artist Doreen Garner uses a specific approach to sculpture to address the fates of Afro-American women who in the second half of the nineteenth century were victims of operations in the name of medical research. Although both artists work very differently, their works each offer intimate insights into the social and cultural conditions of black lives in the USA.