Dialogrundgang - Jan Tappe & Anita Leisz — HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark

Exhibition Tour

Anita Leisz, 2017
Gypsum fibreboard, wax, wood
Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Anita Leisz’s works are characterized by a subtle formal language in which works made of industrial materials such as sheet metal, rubber, and fiberboard make new connections to the architecture of the exhibition space. On the works, various traces refer to human interventions and open up questions about transience and the evolution of form.

In a tour, Jan Tappe (HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark) enters into conversation with Anita Leisz to trace important guidelines within her oeuvre: How do her works interact with the surrounding architecture and spaces? What role does the artist play within the process of form-finding? What expectations do visitors have of art and how does Leisz deal with these expectations? Personal exchange reveals direct insights into what art can, does, and should do.

Artists

Participating artists

studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Solo exhibitions have been held at Belvedere 21, Vienna; mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Kunstverein Ludwigsburg; Salzburger Kunstverein; and Secession, Vienna; among others. Her works have been shown at the Kunsthaus Bregenz; Haus der Kunst Munich; Kunstverein Nürnberg and Kunstverein Hamburg, among others. In 2019, she was awarded the Kapsch Contemporary Art Prize. The artist is represented by Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna; Norma Mangione, Turin; and Lars Friedrich, Berlin.

is assistant curator at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark. He co-curated the group exhibition on affairs together with director Sandro Droschl and developed the performance and exhibition project PROPAGANDA with Julius Pristauz. Until 2020, he was program coordinator at Galerie Wedding – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin. Prior to that, he worked at Hamburger Bahnhof — Museum für Gegenwart and Kunsthalle Wien, among others. After studying cultural studies in Hildesheim, he completed the master’s program Curatorial Studies – History – Theory – Criticism at the Städelschule and Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.