Past. Full of meaning. Experienced.

The doors of the church are wide open. Come in, everyone is welcome. In the middle of the room or to the side, you will sense that history resonates here. Now your eyes and ears open. Luminous sounds and immaterial words of light are omnipresent. And so an all too easily forgotten past is linked to the present.

KLANGLICHT 2018

Born in Feldkirch in 1956, Ruth Schnell now lives and works in Vienna. She currently teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, heads the Digital Art department and works as an artist herself. With her project, the artist responds to the history of the Graz parish church in Herrengasse, which dates back to a small church on the site of the former Jewish ghetto. The subtle installation only reveals itself to those who look at it from a distance. An independent Klanglicht in this context is the light cube, which was designed by the Norwegian artist Vibeke Andersen and can currently be experienced as a stage set in the play “Judas” by Lot Vekemans in Styrian churches. Vita Peterlin on violoncello and Žan Trobas, both students at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, will be playing atmospheric music in this very sound cube.

“This special cooperation between church and stage corresponds to my constant efforts to open up the church to the world. The art installation by Ruth Schnell, together with the live music from the light cube, creates extraordinary visual and auditory experiences.”

– Provost Christian Leibnitz

Curators: Gertraud Schaller-Pressler / Alois Kölbl

In cooperation with
Kirchen Kultur Graz