Director’s tour with Sandro Droschl — HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark

Exhibition Tour

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Katherine Bradford, Pop Corn, 2023
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On the occasion of Galerientage Graz, Sandro Droschl, Director of the HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, will give a guided tour through the current exhibition Katherine Bradford: American Odyssey. Central aspects will be Katherine Bradford’s localization in the field of US-American modern and contemporary painting, but also the artist’s own and personal American Odyssey.

Since the 1970s, Katherine Bradford has managed to make her own way in the art world by painting daily and by co-creating a community of like-minded artists in both Maine and New York. Starting with color field painting, she’s been merging abstraction with the figurative, telling stories of diverse communities and their individuals, including superheroes and lovers, families and couples, isolated individuals and groups. Her mostly colorful scenes, composed of a multitude of acrylic layers, offer a range of metaphorical projection possibilities that invite viewers to identify, as Bradford often depicts everyday situations.

Artists

Participating artists

Solo (selection): kaufmann repetto, Milan (2024, 2021),Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo (2024, 2022), Kunsthalle Emden (2024), Frye Art Museum, Seattle (2023), Canada, New York (2023, 2021, 2018, 2016), Campoli Presti, Paris/London (2023, 2021, 2019), Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg (2023), Portland Museum of Art (2022), Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2022, with Sedrick Chisom), Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT (2021), Carpenter Center for Visual Art, Harvard University, Cambridge (2021), Adams and Ollman, Portland (2020, 2018, 2016, 2014), Galerie Haverkampf, Berlin (2018, 2017), Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Mailand (2017), Sperone Westwater, New York (2017), The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2017)

Shows (selection): Musée d‘Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2023), Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland (2023, 2021), Kunsthaus Nürnberg (2023), Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2023, 2022), Le Consortium, Dijon (2022), Bowdoin College Museum, Brunswick (2022, 2019, 2004), Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam/New York (2021, 2019), RISD Museum, Brown University, Providence (2021), Transcend, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile (2021), Pace Gallery, New York (2019), Prospect 4, U.S. Biennial, New Orleans (2017)

Her works are amongst others in the collections of Musée d‘Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Brooklyn Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Menil Collection, Houston and the Portland Museum of Art.

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.