Curator’s tour with Sandro Droschl
aktuelle kunst in graz 

On the occasion of aktuelle kunst in graz, Sandro Droschl, director of HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark and curator of Future of Melancholia, will give a guided tour of the exhibition. The group exhibition, which is a cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, and presents three generations of Serbian artists from the 1920s to the present day, starting with the Belgrade Surrealists of the 1920s and 1930s, who represent a central but unfortunately often overlooked group of artists within international Surrealism, then moving to the so-called Serbian ​“Neo-Surrealists”, who worked independently between the 1950s and the 1990s often using dreamlike visual language reminiscent of Surrealism, and finally to the so-called Serbian ​“Neo-Surrealists”, who worked independently between the 1950s and the 1990s, often using a surreal, dreamlike visual language reminiscent of Surrealism, and finally to the work of contemporary artists using melancholy as a productive force to reflect on political grievances or, like their predecessors, create fantastic, post-surreal visual worlds.

Sandro Droschl will guide visitors through the exhibition, not only providing insights into Serbian art history and a selection of works, but will also discuss current events and their historical references. In particular, he will also discuss melancholy and visualized introspection in emotional worlds as a regional and international phenomenon of contemporary art.