UNTITLED (QUESTION PROJECTION)
UNTITLED (QUESTION PROJECTION) People tend to use their minds to categorize and classify the world and thus make sense of it. In reality, however, all our knowledge provides no answers to many existential, burning and banal questions: Why does nothing ever happen? Have I never been fully awake? Should I get drunk? Or: Will happiness […]
MUSEUM OF THE MOON
MUSEUM OF THE MOON It is a powerful sight that opens up as you enter the Graz parish church: the moon. Luke Jerram’s light sculpture “Museum of the Moon” shows a replica of the moon with a diameter of six meters. Each centimeter replicates around five kilometers of the moon’s surface, whose craters, mountains and […]
INCREDIBLE
INCREDIBLE Is it sleep or the dream of reason that gives birth to monsters? Inspired by a Spanish artwork with an ambiguous title, the artists Detlef Hartung and Georg Trenz pose the question of whether the presence or absence of our reason creates monsters, thereby focusing their project on the polarity of statements. The associative […]
OM
OM Surrounded by the massive dolomite rock of Graz’s Schloßberg, the “Dom im Berg” becomes a powerful place of inspiration. In a world that is increasingly dominated by virtual experiences, “OM” deliberately sets a counterpoint. Created using state-of-the-art digital tools and following classic design principles, it opens up an analog space of experience that directly […]
YOUNG MASTERS EXHIBITION
YOUNG MASTERS EXHIBITION Bodies inside each other – Jazmin Rojas Forero A plant grows in the mountains of Colombia that absorbs moisture from the fog through its leaves and releases it again through its roots. “Bodies inside each other” is an art installation that explores the plant’s relationship with its environment. The illuminated sculpture is […]
POI PANDORA’S BOX PARTY
PANDORA’S BOX PARTY In cooperation with KLANGLICHT, the HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark presents a commissioned work by Norbert Pfaffenbichler. Pfaffenbichler is a conceptual artist and a key protagonist of Austrian experimental film. With his often opulent works, which oscillate between horror and humor, he opens up new perspectives on the world. The surrealistic video installation […]
POI CHOIR OF KIN – Lichenography
CHOIR OF KIN – Lichenography Choir of Kin is an ongoing, multi-part intermedia project by the collective Transformative Narratives, which explores experimental composition and sound production processes through multispecies encounters. At Neue Galerie Graz, the collective presents its music notation technique Lichenography as an audiovisual installation. This technique was originally developed during a research residency […]
POI NOT IN THE PRESENT CASE
NOT IN THE PRESENT CASE Johannes Kepler, a historical great in mathematics and astronomy, was forced to leave Graz as a Protestant during the Counter-Reformation. 200 years later, a monument was erected to him in this place: The founding of the Joanneum was a political statement to make knowledge accessible to everyone – regardless of […]
POI ESTHER STOCKER & DAVID REUMÜLLER
ESTHER STOCKER & DAVID REUMÜLLER Galerie Grill is presenting works by Esther Stocker and David Reumüller for KLANGLICHT 2024. Stocker expresses herself through lines, grids, right angles and the non-colors black and white. For KLANGLICHT 2022, she explored the medium of light for the first time. Various illuminated objects were subsequently created, and works from […]
The blue planet
The installation The Blue Planet on the Schlossbergbühne Kasematten stage showed our planet in all its glory. Scientists from the German Aerospace Center combined and visualized real data and images of the Earth. The result was a symbiosis of science and art, a total work of art that literally showed us the uniqueness of the […]