Diego Bianchi Errores Irreales
Celina Eceiza Ofrenda

The current exhibitions focus on the vibrant Argentinian art scene. Diego Bianchi and Celina Eceiza each deal specifically with their environment in Buenos Aires and modified traditions of Argentinian art history. Starting from reinterpretations of sculpture and the subtlety of craftsmanship, their works have now developed into large-scale, space-consuming installations. Bianchi will transform the upper floor of the HALLE FÜR KUNST into a performative stage for sculptures characterized by both subtle irony and dystopian tension. With her ​“soft museum,” Eceiza has opened up a walk-in, sensually charged space in which her paintings, batiks, and textile collages combine visual, haptic, and multisensory experiences.

Diego Bianchi (born 1969 in Buenos Aires, lives in Buenos Aires) is one of Argentina’s most important contemporary artists. In his exhibition Errores Irreales, Bianchi has created an expansive stage-like installation, in which sculptures made partly from found everyday objects and waste materials play out in the space. Human and non-human bodies are the central motifs of his exhibition: vulnerable, malleable, and socially and technologically influenced. Bianchi develops hybrid, cyborg-like figures and landscapes that can be activated performatively. He uses humor as a means of responding to crises, consumer excesses, and transience. On the opening day and on other dates, the setting of the exhibition will be activated by a performance.

In cooperation with the Museo de Arte de Buenos Aires, HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark is presenting the first solo exhibition in Europe by Argentine artist Celina Eceiza (born 1988 in Tandil, lives in Buenos Aires). Her exhibition, titled Ofrenda, transforms the architecture of the institution into a color-intensive, organic ​“soft museum.” Hundreds of meters of fabric, collages, and sculptural elements cover the space, turning it into an immersive, haptically experiential Gesamtkunstwerk. Eceiza combines body images, natural motifs, and mythical references with alternative readings of South American modernism, drawing on countercultural artistic practices in Argentina since the 1960s. With Ofrenda, she gives the audience a poetic yet powerful experience that conveys confidence, joie de vivre, and a new awareness of the social dimension of the body.

The artists will be present during the opening. Diego Bianchi will give a performance.

Performers: Shiva Abossedgh, Sam Beukeboom, Barbara Eglseer, Gea Gračner, Reina Harriet Gujer, Anna Mayor, Jonas Meiberg, Mariella Müller, Laci Sárkány, Emilie Willner