studio 2019
27.04.-27.10.2019
Info exhibition: +43-316/8017-9100
Info press: +43-316/8017-9213 or DDI -9211

About the studio
From 1992 to 2010, the studio of the Neue Galerie Graz served as a platform for young Austrian artists at the outset of their career. In 2017 this key instrument for the promotion and presentation of recent art in the Joanneum Quarter was re-introduced. Three studio exhibitions will be shown in 2019 and can be visited free of charge.

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Renate Krammer. slow motion
Opening: 26.04.2019, 7 pm
Duration: 27.04.–16.06.2019
Curated by Günther Holler-Schuster

Installation views and opening
Material

Foto: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Renate-Krammer-Guenther-Holler-Schuster.jpg (1.17 MB)

Foto: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Renate-Krammer.jpg (0.97 MB)

Foto: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Ausstellungsansicht-Renate-Krammer-01.jpg (1.11 MB)

Foto: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Ausstellungsansicht-Renate-Krammer-02.jpg (1 MB)

Foto: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Ausstellungsansicht-Renate-Krammer-03.jpg (1.01 MB)

Foto: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Ausstellungsansicht-Renate-Krammer-04.jpg (1.23 MB)

Foto: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Eroeffnung-Renate-Krammer-01.jpg (1.04 MB)

Foto: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Eroeffnung-Renate-Krammer-02.jpg (1 MB)

Foto: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Eroeffnung-Renate-Krammer-03.jpg (1.18 MB)

Foto: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Eroeffnung-Renate-Krammer-04.jpg (1.06 MB)
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AWOL - Absent Without Leave
Opening: 03.07.2019, 7 pm
Duration: 04.07.–01.09.2019
Curated by Günther Holler-Schuster
Total Refusal – Digital Disarmament Movement is an art collective founded in Graz in 2018, consisting mainly of Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel and Michael Stumpf. The aesthetics and structures of video games—their relation to the real physical world—are quoted and manipulated by them in a subversive way. They translate the codes of games into real life—motions, behaviours, aesthetics. In this world, the levels of reality have long been mixed. Avatars and real people coexist more or less well with each other according to certain rules of the game. These rules, however, are constantly and fundamentally disturbed by Total Refusal. The potential of this collective lies in the anarchic joke. It creates an amazingly impressive visuality that emerges from the visual noise of today’s digital flood of images. The artists pick up the existing mechanics of the games and misuse them: Imagine it’s a war and all the tanks are just going around in circles ...

Downloads
- Total-Refusal-Booklet.pdf (2,321 KB)

Material


f. l. t. r.: Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner and Michael Stumpf, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Total-Refusal-Gruppenfoto-01.jpg (2.54 MB)

f. l. t. r.: Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner and Michael Stumpf, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Total-Refusal-Gruppenfoto.jpg (1.45 MB)

f. l. t. r.: the artists Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf with curator Günther Holler-Schuster, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Total-Refusal-Holler-Schuster.jpg (1.41 MB)

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Ausstellungsansicht-00.jpg (1.45 MB)

A pacifist finger exercise, video still of an online performance, 6 min., © total refusal
Circumventing-the-Circle-of-Death.jpg (0.62 MB)

Mixed media installation, 3D model & projection, 6:35 min., © Total Refusal
How-to-Disappear.jpg (1.64 MB)

Print on wallpaper, 20 x 2.5 m, © Total Refusal
Landscape-for-a-Battle-Panorama-01.jpg (1.66 MB)

Print on wallpaper, 20 x 2,5 m, © Total Refusal
Landscape-for-a-Battle-Panorama.jpg (1.58 MB)

A city tour through the architecture of an online shooter, video still of an online performance, 17 min., © Total Refusal
Operation-Jane-Walk-01.jpg (2.2 MB)

A city tour through the architecture of an online shooter, video still of an online performance, 17 min., © Total Refusal
Operation-Jane-Walk.jpg (0.89 MB)

Mixed media installation, 3D model and projection, 6:35 min., © Total Refusal
Sculpturing-a-peace-monument.jpg (0.32 MB)
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Barbis Ruder - Touchpoint
Opening: 12.09.2019, 19 Uhr
Duration: 13.09.–27.10.2019
Curated by Roman Grabner
The exhibition Touchpoint. in the studio of the Neue Galerie Graz shows the performative sculptures of performance and media artist Barbis Ruder. As the title already suggests, the show deals with touch points, interaction and direct contact. Ruder investigates the intersections between capitalism and the body, between neo-liberalism and the psyche, which shape our present in an unconsidered and lasting way. In the eponymous work, she pursues the question of how one can translate gestures of political rhetoric into space, so to say materialise them. In the same way that politics in principle wishes not only to guide a mass, but always to form it, too, so the artist’s hands touch a soft, malleable mass, in a re-enactment of these gestures. Her finger prints in the silicon cast are the touch points of power. The concern here is literally with the range of words and gestures, and with the so fundamental question of attitude.
Material

Steel frames, Ortheses, 302 x 75 x 10 cm Courtesy: the artist
Down-Dog-in-Limbo-1.jpg (0.18 MB)

Steel frame, Ortheses, 302 x 75 x 10 cm Courtesy: the artist
Down-Dog-in-Limbo-2.jpg (0.18 MB)

Test weight, cord, mouthpiece, arch, ca. DM 15 x 100 cm Courtesy: the artist
Mundstueck-1.jpg (0.07 MB)

Test weight, cord, mouthpiece, arch, ca. DM 15 x 100 cm Courtesy: the artist
Mundstueck-2.jpg (0.08 MB)

Test weight, cord, mouthpiece, arch, ca. DM 15 x 100 cm Courtesy: the artist
Mundstueck-3.jpg (0.09 MB)
Press contact
Universalmuseum Joanneum
Marketing & Communications
Mariahilferstraße 4
8020 Graz, Austria
Mobil +43-664/8017-9214
presse@museum-joanneum.at
Downloads
- Universalmuseum_Joanneum_Langtext_ENGL_2019.pdf (21 KB)
- UMJ-Programme-2020-E.pdf (2,164 KB)