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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

 

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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

Images

 

Publication is permitted exclusively in the context of announcements and reviews related to the exhibition. Please avoid any cropping of the images. Thank you for crediting the photographs according to the enclosed indications.

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Material


Christiane Peschek, The Girls Club – Etna, 2019
Christiane Peschek, The Girls Club – Etna, 2019

© Christiane Peschek / Bildrecht, Wien 2022


Faking the Real.jpg (2.18 MB)

Christiane Peschek “GYM”, onlineshow at Virginia Bianchi Gallery, 2021,
Christiane Peschek “GYM”, onlineshow at Virginia Bianchi Gallery, 2021,

© Bildrecht, Wien 2021


Christiane-Peschek-GYM-2021.jpg (0.98 MB)

Heimo Zobernig, "untitled", 2019,
Heimo Zobernig, "untitled", 2019,

Photo: Archive Heimo Zobernig, © Bildrecht, Wien 2021


Heimo-Zobernig-2019.jpg (0.19 MB)

John Baldessari, "(Two things) better experienced / difficult to describe", 1988,
John Baldessari, "(Two things) better experienced / difficult to describe", 1988,

Neue Galerie Graz, Schenkung Dr. Manfred Herzl


Baldessari-better-experienced-1988.jpg (0.69 MB)

Sarah Morris, "Pulp Fiction", 2013,
Sarah Morris, "Pulp Fiction", 2013,

© All rights reserved, Courtesy the artist and Air de Paris, Romainville


Sarah-Morris-Pulp-Fiction-2013.jpg (2.74 MB)

Beni Bischof, "Bird", 2022
Beni Bischof, "Bird", 2022


bischof bird 40x50cm.jpg (1.7 MB)

Daniele Buetti, "Fendi", 2003
Daniele Buetti, "Fendi", 2003

Bildrecht, Vienna 2022


Daniele Buetti Fendi 2003-4c .jpg (1.18 MB)

Jochen Traar, "LABIL", 2022
Jochen Traar, "LABIL", 2022


Jochen Traar Download.jpg (0.13 MB)

Material


Kuratorinnenteam "Faking the Real" Sabine Kienzer und Katrin Bucher Trantow,
Kuratorinnenteam "Faking the Real" Sabine Kienzer und Katrin Bucher Trantow,

Foto: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek


Kienzer-Bucher-Trantow-J.J. Kucek.jpg (1.68 MB)

Kuratorinnenteam "Faking the Real" Sabine Kienzer, Katrin Bucher Trantow und Co-Kuratorin Alexandra Trost,
Kuratorinnenteam "Faking the Real" Sabine Kienzer, Katrin Bucher Trantow und Co-Kuratorin Alexandra Trost,

Foto: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek


Kienzer-Bucher-Trantow-Trost.jpg (1.02 MB)

Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,
Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,

Photo: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek


Ausstellungsansicht-Faking-the-Real-01-J.J.Kucek.jpg (1.54 MB)

Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,
Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,

Photo: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek


Ausstellungsansicht-Faking-the-Real-02-J.J.Kucek.jpg (0.98 MB)

Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,
Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,

Photo: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek


Ausstellungsansicht-Faking-the-Real-03-J.J.Kucek.jpg (1.04 MB)

Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,
Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,

Photo: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek


Ausstellungsansicht-Faking-the-Real-04-J.J.Kucek.jpg (1.05 MB)

Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,
Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,

Photo: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek


Ausstellungsansicht-Faking-the-Real-05-J.J.Kucek.jpg (1.19 MB)

Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,
Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,

Photo: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek


Ausstellungsansicht-Faking-the-Real-06-J.J.Kucek.jpg (1.26 MB)

Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,
Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,

Photo: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek


Ausstellungsansicht-Faking-the-Real-07-J.J.Kucek.jpg (0.94 MB)

Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,
Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,

Photo: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek


Ausstellungsansicht-Faking-the-Real-08-J.J.Kucek.jpg (1.5 MB)

Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,
Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,

Photo: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek


Ausstellungsansicht-Faking-the-Real-09-J.J.Kucek.jpg (1.23 MB)

Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,
Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,

Photo: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek


Ausstellungsansicht-Faking-the-Real-10-J.J.Kucek.jpg (1.16 MB)

Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,
Exhibition view „Faking the Real“,

Photo: Kunsthaus Graz/J.J. Kucek


Ausstellungsansicht-Faking-the-Real-11-J.J.Kucek.jpg (1.15 MB)

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