Curator's Tour — HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark

Exhibition Tour

Anita Leisz, 2017
Steel stanchion, galvanized, corroded
350 cm, Ø 8 cm
Courtesy Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna

On the occasion of the Styrian State Prize in Recognition of Fine Art 2020, the HALLE FÜR KUNST shows an – eponymous – exhibition of the artist Anita Leisz, who comes from Styria and lives in Vienna. The placement of Leisz works in the large exhibition hall stands out due to its close connection with the architecture of the building and raises questions about the spatial conditions of art, as well as its limits and potentials.

On today’s date, Sandro Droschl (Director, HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark) will provide insights into the artist’s work by means of a guided tour and talk about the concept of the exhibition, which is surprising to some. How can Leisz’s interventions be understood as autonomous works and what relationship do they have to the spaces?

Artists

Participating artists

is founding director and curator of the institution HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark. From 2012 to 2020 he directed the Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien. Since 2000 he worked as curator, then also as director for the Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, besides as guest curator at other institutions. He curated numerous exhibitions of contemporary art and edited over 30 publications. Droschl made a study iregulare, “Body. Media. Art,” with art (Isabelle Graw, Free Class), philosophy, journalism and medicine at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, University of Vienna and London Guildhall University.