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HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark 

Once again, we’d like to get together to explore the exhibitions, chat about them in a relaxed atmosphere, and turn our discussions into a radio show! With the exhibitions Diego Bianchi: Errores Irreales and Celina Eceiza: Ofrenda (the latter created in collaboration with the Museo Moderno de Buenos Aires) HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark presents two distinctive voices from Argentina’s contemporary art scene. Both artists engage directly with the architecture in their own ways, transforming the galleries into multisensory immersive spaces.

Diego Bianchi creates sculptural installations from everyday objects, consumer goods, and mannequins. The results resemble illusionistic stage sets animated by all kinds of possible and impossible bodies. His hybrid figures — sometimes unsettling, sometimes humorous — reflect on cycles of material, consumer culture, and social norms. By questioning the line between humans and objects, he invites us to think critically yet playfully about what it means to have a body.

Celina Eceiza responds with what she calls a ​“soft museum”—hundreds of meters of hand-dyed textiles woven together with painting, collage, and sculpture to form an immersive environment. Her installation draws on Argentine art history as well as ideas of spirituality, New Age thinking, and cosmology. Like Bianchi, she creates an experience that goes beyond just looking — visitors physically become part of the artwork. Together, their works open up a world where the everyday and the mythical, critical and poetic, fragile and abundant all come together — art as encounter, ritual, and sensory experience.

In this special way of experiencing art, we’ll think together about how our bodies feel in these spaces and what kinds of questions come up — about our physical presence, our relationships with objects and machines, and ideas of care and hospitality.

Please register for the workshop by November 10, 2025, with Caro Feistritzer: cf@​halle-​fuer-​kunst.​at