Maruša Sagadin. Speak More Truth, Eat More Fruit

Press release

21.03.2025

© Maruša Sagadin, Christine König Galerie, Wien, Bildrecht, Wien 2025

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Duration

27.03.2025 - 29.03.2026

Opening

27.03.2025 4pm

Press event

21.03.2025 10am - 11am

Place of the press event

Kunsthaus Graz, Foyer, Vorplatz

Curators

Katrin Bucher Trantow

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Vienna-based artist Maruša Sagadin, known for her quirky sculptural interventions, was invited by Kunsthaus Graz to design a site-specific intervention for the forecourt of the building. The design for a multi-part, expansive sculpture was created in response to the surroundings and the building. It consists of granite stones with wooden seats, offers space and humour and is invitingly painted in bright colours. For the urban space, the temporary project combines sculptural elements that, on the one hand, mark the building and its contents and, on the other, offer passers-by and people waiting to sit down and engage with the location.

The centrepiece of the work is a sculptural, tubular hanging device with an oversized, approx. 1 m high, yellow-painted pear. Speak more truth, eat more fruit quotes a song by rapper Speech Debelle and is both an invitation and a reference to the artist's roots, which combine elements of street art, pop, comic and hip-hop culture. Sagadin's work breaks with established codes with relish, sensitively revealing social mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in urban space.

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Photo: Simon Veres

Andreja Hribernik (Leiterin des Kunsthauses), Chefkuratorin Katrin Bucher Trantow, Künstlerin Maruša Sagadin und Verena Lam (Direktorin Kai 36, Marko Hotels)

Foto: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek © Bildrecht, Wien 2025

Maruša Sagadin

Foto: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek © Bildrecht, Wien 2025

Andreja Hribernik (Leiterin des Kunsthauses), Chefkuratorin Katrin Bucher Trantow, Künstlerin Maruša Sagadin und Verena Lam (Direktorin Kai 36, Marko Hotels)

Foto: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek © Bildrecht, Wien 2025

Maruša Sagadin. Speak More Truth, Eat More Fruit

Foto: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek © Bildrecht, Wien 2025

Maruša Sagadin. Speak More Truth, Eat More Fruit

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Maruša​ Sagadin. Speak More Truth, Eat More Fruit

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Maruša Sagadin. Speak More Truth, Eat More Fruit