Margarita Maximova presents a reading of her first book You have within you something stronger and more numinous (2021). Throughout her practice, Maximova considers the many ways in which our contemporary image-making technologies and their indivisible link to communication, sociability, and memory-making operate. You have within you something stronger and more numinous is a continuation of that process with a focus on the written word. The book discloses a collection of excerpts from letters sent to her by her mother over the previous decade. The selection of translated texts describes her mother’s venturesome relocation from Russia to Belgium, her childhood in the Russian dachas, close observations of the landscape, and her pursuit to retrieve the connection with her ancestors. Set amongst the political landscape and cultural fabric of the Soviet Union, the telling of her experience reveals the nuances of intimacy, displacement, motherhood, and the psychic traumas that are so often inherited from previous family generations.

Language: English
Duration: 75 minutes

Due to limited capacity, it is required to reserve a seat by writing to office@grazerkunstverein.org

Margarita Maximova (b. 1990, Russia; lives in Brussels and Berlin) is an artist with an audio-visual-based practice. Her work has recently been exhibited at Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels (2021), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2021), Science Gallery, Venice (2021), Courtisane Festival, Ghent (2021), S.M.A.K, Ghent (2020), and Beursschouwburg, Brussels (2018).

The presentation of You have within you something stronger and more numinous at Grazer Kunstverein is made possible with the support of Flanders State of the Art.

In Submission Submission (unplugged), Bryana Fritz takes on the role of an ‘amateur hagiographer’. The amateur being both a beginner and a lover; the hagiographer, as in the medieval literary genre of hagiography, the writing of saints’ lives. In a series of performative portraits, Fritz embodies the corporal, rhetorical, and performative strategies that medieval women saints used to subvert their restricted lives, deaths, and passions. Submitting her physical and digital body to holy echoes from the past, she dissects and harnesses the tools that give body. Submission Submission is a growing codex of performative portraits of medieval women saints. For each iteration of the performance, different saints are chosen to share the space. At Grazer Kunstverein, Fritz will perform her portraits of Christina of Bolsena, Hildegard of Bingen, Cathrine of Siena, and Joan of Arc.

Language: English
Duration: 30 minutes

Bryana Fritz (b. 1989, USA; lives in Brussels and Paris) is a choreographer, dancer, and writer. She works at the intersection between poetry and performance often in duet with the user interface of OS X. Her work is fed by a continued interest in medieval literature, fanfiction, media studies, and histories of illiteracy. She also collaborates with Henry Andersen under the moniker Slow Reading Club. As a performer, Fritz worked with Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Xavier le Roy, Boris Charmatz, Michiel Vandevelde and Femke Gyselinck. 

The presentation of Submission Submission (unplugged) at Grazer Kunstverein is made possible with the support of Flanders State of the Art.

This publication appeared in conjunction with the exhibition we sat rigid except for the parts of our bodies that were needed for production by Sandra Lahire and Celeste Burlina. It is the first in a series of small volumes of correspondence, responses, and conversations, which accompanies the exhibition program of Grazer Kunstverein.

Editor: Tom Engels
Contributions: Celeste Burlina, Tom Engels, Laura Guy, Calla Henkel, Sandra Lahire, Julie Peeters, Charlotte Procter, Kerstin Schroedinger, Miriam Stoney
Graphic Design: Julie Peeters
Editorial Assistance: Verena Borecky
Copyediting: Tom Engels, Verena Borecky
Printing and binding: Benedict Press, Münsterschwarzach
Edition: 350
Typeface: Kleisch GK by Chiachi Chao
63 pages, b&w, English
Softcover
ISBN: 978-3-9505230-0-3
Price: 7,– Euro, 4,– Euro for members

Leporello, 22 pages, limited edition
11.5 x 17 cm
De Hallen Haarlem, Grazer Kunstverein, 2016
Price: 50,– Euro (out of print)

Edited with an introduction by Joseph Grigely
Design: Marc Hollenstein
224 pages, 27 b/w, 38 color illustr., 24 x 17 cm, English
Grazer Kunstverein, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Printed Matter, Koenig Books, 2016
ISBN 978-3-86335-933-1
Price: 25,– Euro (out of print)

Revised and reprinted with German translation
Translation: Victoria Dejaco
Proofreading: Tanja Gurke
Designer: Astrid Seme
Curator: Kate Strain
Mark Pezinger Verlag, 2018
ISBN: 978-3-9504525-2-5
Price: 10,– Euro

Chris Evans, Morten Norbye Halvorsen
Jingles (Grazer Kunstverein, spring, summer, autumn, winter)
2017–2020
12” Vinyl LP
Sets of 6 Limited Editions

Each hand-printed silkscreened sleeve is produced in an edition of 25 and signed by the artists. Digital download link included.
Colors available: Green, Pink, Dark Blue, Red, Grey, Light Blue

Single price: 30,– Euro
Price for a set of six: 150,– Euro

Editors: Triple Candie, Kate Strain
Concept: Triple Candie
Text: Kate Strain, Triple Candie, Maggie Armstrong
Copyediting: Maggie Armstrong
Translation: Dörte Eliass
Proofreading: Tanja Gurke, Maggie Armstrong
Design, Layout: Marc Hollenstein, Triple Candie
104 pages, 29 b/w, 49 color illustr., 30,5 x 21,5 cm, German/English
Mark Pezinger Books; 2019
ISBN: 978-3-9504525-8-7; Price: 25,– Euro

In the frame of Diagonale’22 – Festival of Austrian Film, the Grazer Kunstverein and Kunsthaus Graz join forces. In Rensonance, a joint film program, connects their exhibitions by Sandra Lahire and The Golden Pixel Cooperative, a Vienna-based feminist association for moving images. Drawing from their back catalog, The Golden Pixel Cooperative members respond to Terminals (1986), one of Lahire’s films. The program includes films by Christiana Perschon, Lydia Nsiah, and Enar de Dios Rodríguez, and examines practices of (self-)observation and the vulnerability of images, bodies, and environments. Together, they resound in a cinematic and intergenerational encounter. 

The program includes:

Christiana Perschon, Double 8, 2016. 3 min. 
Lydia Nsiah, distortion, 2016. 5 min.
Sandra Lahire, Terminals, 1986. 20 min.
Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Liquid Ground, 2021. 32 min. 

The screening will be followed by a discussion between Katrin Bucher Trantow (Interim Director and Chief Curator Kunsthaus Graz), Enar de Dios Rodríguez (artist, GPC), Tom Engels (Artistic Director Grazer Kunstverein), and Antonia Rahofer (curator, GPC). The conversation will be moderated by Daniella Shreir (Another Gaze).

You can book tickets via the website of Diagonale’22.

In Resonance is realized in cooperation with Kunsthaus Graz and Diagonale’22. 

The Golden Pixel Cooperative (GPC) is an association for moving image, art, and media founded in 2014. Located at the interface between exhibition space and cinema, its goal is to develop sustainable structures for the distribution, production, and mediation of moving image works by contemporary artists and to promote exchange and mutual support between them. Indizien, The Golden Pixel Cooperative’s exhibition is on display at Kunsthaus Graz between 05/04 and 18/04/2022.

As part of the opening of we sat rigid except for the parts of our bodies that were needed for production by Sandra Lahire and Celeste Burlina, the German artist Rosa Anschütz presents Soft Resource, a performative concert. Inspired by Lahire’s experimental films, Anschütz draws from her musical and lyrical archive and reassembles its elements into a one-off sonic journey.

Rosa Anschütz (b. 1997, Germany; lives in Berlin and Vienna) is an artist, composer, and vocalist. Working through different media, she investigates the relationship between sound, object, scenography, photography, and film, while creating collages within and beyond her music. As a performer, Anschütz embeds her reverberated voice—oscillating between singing and spoken words—in delicately constructed sound compositions drawing from the guitar, bass, drum machine, and modular synthesizers. Her debut record Rigid, came out on Quiet Love Records in 2019 and was soon followed by Votive, her first full-length album. In May 2022 she will release her second album Goldener Strom on the Berlin-based label B-Pitch Control.