Faking the Real
The Art of Seduction
Cooperative project with CIS, FH Joanneum, Graz Museum, Haus der Architektur and KULTUM/Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten
In the framework of steirischer herbst '22
Kunsthaus Graz, Space02, Lendkai 1, 8020 Graz
Curated by Katrin Bucher Trantow and Sabine Kienzer
Press tour: 20.09.2022, 10 am
Opening: 21.09.2022, 8 pm
Duration: 22.09.2022-08.01.2023
Info exhibition: +43-316/8017-9200
Info press: +43-316/8017-9214 and DDI -9213
presse@museum-joanneum.at
About the exhibition
Following the controversial term fake, the exhibition in Kunsthaus Graz traces an evolution in intersections between graphic design, media images and art since 1971. With works by Rosemarie Trockel, Gerwald Rockenschaub and Signe Pierce, among others, it reflects both political upheavals and technological developments. Faking the Real is dedicated to the question of the manipulation of realities and shows a development from the poster in public space to the intervention in social media. The exhibition is part of the major special show titled The Art of Enticement, which reflects 100 years of graphic design and poster art from a variety of perspectives.
Especially in recent decades, both graphic designers and artists, working in parallel, have used concepts and ideas of selling, manipulating and celebrating. In this, they have been ever more clearly influenced by one another – not only appropriating, but self-confidently, affirmatively, too. Besides the material innovations, it is the technological ones in particular that have driven not only advertising graphics, but art, too, in its reflection. Digital layout programmes have created almost limitless possibilities in terms of designing surfaces. Deriving from the collage, initial image processing programmes inspired ground-breaking positions in art such as John Baldessari to create smooth image montages, spurring on from the 1980s an early generation of digital artists like Peter Kogler, Thomas Bayrle or Sylvia Eckermann, for example, to graphic works that continually grew in size, spreading out spatially, too. Highly current positions in art, such as Christiane Peschek or Hito Steyerl, the latter represented in Kunsthaus’ Space01 with a solo exhibition, not only make the analogue and digital worlds merge into another interactively; they also blend into each other in a way indivisible and invisible. The question of the ‘applied’ as something covertly seductive, calculated and manipulative, as if steered by an invisible hand from far, is once again posed here, in a completely new way.
Featuring works by Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola, John Baldessari, Thomas Bayrle, Lynda Benglis, Gottfried Bechtold, Beni Bischof, Monica Bonvicini, BLESS, Boris Bućan, Daniele Buetti, Chris Burden, Teresa Burga, Judy Chicago, fierce pussy, Sylvie Fleury, Sylvia Eckermann, John Gerrard, Jochen Gerz, Manuel Gorkiewicz, G.R.A.M., Guerrilla Girls, Rachel Harrison, Thomas Hirschhorn, Robert Indiana, Johanna Jaskowska, Šejla Kamerić, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Peter Kogler, Isabella Kohlhuber, Brigitte Kowanz, Sonia Leimer, Otto Mittmannsgruber/Martin Strauß, Susan Mogul, Sarah Morris, museum in progress, ORLAN, Julian Opie, Christiane Peschek, Alli Coates & Signe Pierce, Pierre et Gilles, Sophie Reinhold, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Michael Schuster, Elfie Semotan, Cindy Sherman, Katharina Sieverding, Lucie Stahl, Hito Steyerl, Sturtevant, Total Refusal, Jochen Traar, Rosemarie Trockel, Piotr Uklański, Amalia Ulman, Maja Vukoje, Peter Weibel, Bernhard Wolf, Christopher Wool, Zentrum für Politische Schönheit, Dragana Žarevac, Heimo Zobernig and others, and an overview of 50 years of poster development at steirischer herbst
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Material

© Christiane Peschek / Bildrecht, Wien 2022
Faking the Real.jpg (2.18 MB)

© Bildrecht, Wien 2021
Christiane-Peschek-GYM-2021.jpg (0.98 MB)

Photo: Archive Heimo Zobernig, © Bildrecht, Wien 2021
Heimo-Zobernig-2019.jpg (0.19 MB)

Neue Galerie Graz, Schenkung Dr. Manfred Herzl
Baldessari-better-experienced-1988.jpg (0.69 MB)

© All rights reserved, Courtesy the artist and Air de Paris, Romainville
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Foto: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek
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Foto: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek
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Photo: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek
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Photo: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek
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Photo: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek
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Press contact
Universalmuseum Joanneum
Marketing & Communications
Mariahilferstraße 4
8020 Graz, Austria
P: +43/316/8017-9211
F: +43/316/8017-9253
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Downloads
- Universalmuseum_Joanneum_Langtext_ENGL_2019.pdf (21 KB)
- UMJ-Programme-2020-E.pdf (2,164 KB)