Spring at Grazer Kunstverein
10 Mar - 09 Jun 2017
View of exterior, Spring 2017, Grazer Kunstverein. Photography by Christine Winkler.
View of interior, Spring 2017, Grazer Kunstverein. Photography by Christine Winkler.
Céline Condorelli, Things That Go Without Saying, 2013, extended commission for Spring 2017, Grazer Kunstverein.
Photography by Christine Winkler.
Photography by Christine Winkler.
Chris Evans with Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Jingle, new commission for Spring 2017, Grazer Kunstverein. Photography by
Christine Winkler.
Christine Winkler.
Fiona Hallinan, Fink’s, new commission for Spring 2017, Grazer Kunstverein. Photography by Christine Winkler.
Fiona Hallinan, detail of Fink’s, new commission for Spring 2017, Grazer Kunstverein. Photography by Christine Winkler.
Isabel Nolan, The Provisory Rug, adaptable for past, present and future. (For Marie Lieb), 2012, on display for Spring 2017,
Grazer Kunstverein. Kindly on loan from Ernst Siegel Collection, Vermont, USA. Photography by Christine Winkler.
Grazer Kunstverein. Kindly on loan from Ernst Siegel Collection, Vermont, USA. Photography by Christine Winkler.
Isabel Nolan, detail from The Provisory Rug, adaptable for past, present and future. (For Marie Lieb), 2012, on display for
Spring 2017, Grazer Kunstverein. Photography by Christine Winkler.
Spring 2017, Grazer Kunstverein. Photography by Christine Winkler.
Isabella Kohlhuber, Space for an Agreement, 2016, on display for Spring 2017, Grazer Kunstverein.
Photography by Christine Winkler.
Photography by Christine Winkler.
Isabella Kohlhuber, untitled (table), detail from Space for an Agreement, 2016, on display for Spring 2017, Grazer Kunstverein.
Photography by Christine Winkler.
Photography by Christine Winkler.
SPRING AT GRAZER KUNSTVEREIN
10 March – 9 June 2017
New and Extended Commissions:
Céline Condorelli
Chris Evans with Morten Norbye Halvorsen
Fiona Hallinan
On Display:
Isabella Kohlhuber
Isabel Nolan
Adam Zagajewski
On Reflection:
Ernst Fischer
Spring at the Grazer Kunstverein is a season inspired by the agency of art in the context of world-building and the lived environment. In the spirit of Austrian café-culture, and the Irish tradition of the public-house, the season looks at how art can enrich and confound our thinking processes, as with the work of Isabel Nolan; support, enable and empower, through the work of Isabella Kohlhuber; and reflect on what it means to be alive together, through a series of new research initiatives and collaborations. In addition, a poem of profound beauty, by Adam Zagajewski, will accompany us through our year-long cycle of activities. It will be recited, upon request, in both English and German, by staff of the Grazer Kunstverein.
As part of new commissions, Chris Evans, in collaboration with Morten Norbye Halvorsen, has produced a jingle for the six entrance doors of the Grazer Kunstverein, set to cumulatively proclaim and broadcast the arrival of each visitor. Evans will also develop a public sculpture for the exterior of the building, which will be realised in the summer of 2018. Fiona Hallinan will launch the first iteration of Fink’s – a newly commissioned ‘library of tastes’, designed in collaboration with local producers, set to create a welcoming threshold for conversation and exchange at the Grazer Kunstverein.
Our guiding leitmotif for 2017 is ‘The Necessity of Art’ – inspired by Ernst Fischer’s 1959 publication titled ‘The Necessity of Art – A Marxist Approach’. The year-long programme of new commissions and artistic research is guided by Fischer’s claim that art is not only necessary in order to make it possible for humanity to recognise and change the world, but that art is also necessary by virtue of the magic inherent within it. Under the new direction of Kate Strain, the artistic programme is conceived as an evolving process of changing seasons. New commissions will be realised in the spirit of Fischer’s philosophy, responding to the Grazer Kunstverein as a living entity. Each newly commissioned body of work overlaps, feeds into, informs and shapes the development of the others.
The presentation of work by Isabel Nolan and Fiona Hallinan is kindly supported by Culture Ireland.
10 March – 9 June 2017
New and Extended Commissions:
Céline Condorelli
Chris Evans with Morten Norbye Halvorsen
Fiona Hallinan
On Display:
Isabella Kohlhuber
Isabel Nolan
Adam Zagajewski
On Reflection:
Ernst Fischer
Spring at the Grazer Kunstverein is a season inspired by the agency of art in the context of world-building and the lived environment. In the spirit of Austrian café-culture, and the Irish tradition of the public-house, the season looks at how art can enrich and confound our thinking processes, as with the work of Isabel Nolan; support, enable and empower, through the work of Isabella Kohlhuber; and reflect on what it means to be alive together, through a series of new research initiatives and collaborations. In addition, a poem of profound beauty, by Adam Zagajewski, will accompany us through our year-long cycle of activities. It will be recited, upon request, in both English and German, by staff of the Grazer Kunstverein.
As part of new commissions, Chris Evans, in collaboration with Morten Norbye Halvorsen, has produced a jingle for the six entrance doors of the Grazer Kunstverein, set to cumulatively proclaim and broadcast the arrival of each visitor. Evans will also develop a public sculpture for the exterior of the building, which will be realised in the summer of 2018. Fiona Hallinan will launch the first iteration of Fink’s – a newly commissioned ‘library of tastes’, designed in collaboration with local producers, set to create a welcoming threshold for conversation and exchange at the Grazer Kunstverein.
Our guiding leitmotif for 2017 is ‘The Necessity of Art’ – inspired by Ernst Fischer’s 1959 publication titled ‘The Necessity of Art – A Marxist Approach’. The year-long programme of new commissions and artistic research is guided by Fischer’s claim that art is not only necessary in order to make it possible for humanity to recognise and change the world, but that art is also necessary by virtue of the magic inherent within it. Under the new direction of Kate Strain, the artistic programme is conceived as an evolving process of changing seasons. New commissions will be realised in the spirit of Fischer’s philosophy, responding to the Grazer Kunstverein as a living entity. Each newly commissioned body of work overlaps, feeds into, informs and shapes the development of the others.
The presentation of work by Isabel Nolan and Fiona Hallinan is kindly supported by Culture Ireland.