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How do we live in these times when we are confronted with apocalyptic scenarios ranging from ecological crisis to the threat of mass destruction daily, and how do we make sense of it?

Once again, last year's Diagonale award winner for the best innovative film has been commissioned with the trailer for Diagonale ‘25 and an exhibition project: Simona Obholzer's films are characterised by analogies and associations. With transfiguring close-ups and sound, the artist explores various relationships between image, body, space and gaze. Constructed nature is a frequent subject of her works.

The world we live in is completely untuned in the face of multiple crises and the loss of the common space of bodies resonating with each other. 27 artists search for the liberation of our individual and collective voice amidst cancel culture and an overwhelming noise of information, not so much to rediscover our self as our relationship to the world.

An information project that takes a stand on the cuts to the independent scene and raises awareness of the effects.

Famakan Magassa combines everyday life with current social issues in his vibrant, large-scale acrylic paintings.

The exhibition Poetics of Power is aimed at revealing manifestations of power that are hidden in symbols, gestures and existing, unquestioned relationships or systems.

On the occasion of Orange the World, Kunsthaus Graz presents a collaborative photo series by the important Austrian photographer Elfie Semotan, which gives a strong voice to the female victims of violence.

war is our way of life, our opponent is our fellow man and the world with all its beings.
we will win! (Peter Gerwin Hoffmann)

What is sacred? Azra Aksamija's "shelters" can be actively experienced and focus on social, ethical and ecological sustainability.

Andrea Scrima’s drawing series Loopy Loonies explores the violence imbedded in the comic and cartoon imagery endemic to contemporary visual cultures.

In the age of 24/7 access, traditional working hours have long ceased to be the norm. Bike couriers, previously a symbol of physical and flexible work, are now part of the revolution in digital distribution, their gaudy colours a lively addition to the appearance of cities.

With finery and pomp against the tyranny of the norm! The Diagonale cooperation is a convincing statement for a community of inclusion.

What does the world sit on when we sit on it? 
As in many of her works, Alicja Kwade questions our habits of perception within Sol LeWitt's Wall. Compared to harmoniously floating stones and bronze world chairs, rotation and gravity as the basic conditions of our life on the blue sphere might simply be a question of perspective.

The rigorous concept of the line becomes a multidimensional drawing in (and of) time and space.

Franz Vana's conceptual approach to language and image compositions makes him an exemplary counterpart to Sol LeWitt's modular wall.