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steirischerherbst’24
steirischerherbst’24
steirischerherbst’24
steirischerherbst’24
steirischerherbst’24
steirischerherbst’24
steirischerherbst’24
steirischerherbst’24
Festival opening
19.9.
This year, steirischer herbst’s opening ceremony takes place in Lesliehof, followed by a vernissage of its main exhibition at Neue Galerie Graz. The opening day closes at Helmut List Halle with a performance and party. Come to Graz and be part of the festivities!
Performances
Major newly commissioned performances punctuate the opening days and continue throughout the festival. They deal with various facets of national identities and myths.
Exhibition Horror Patriae20.9.24–16.2.25
Neue Galerie Graz
National museums are haunted houses. Often established by empires and states that long ceased to exist, they served to construct and confirm myths of victories and victimhood. Today, they are the place where former delusions of grandeur and petty grievances of the past are still at play.
A centerpiece of steirischer herbst ’24 is the exhibition Horror Patriae. In the historical building of today’s Universalmuseum Joanneum, which hosts the Neue Galerie Graz, it imagines an alternative museum of national complexes and perverse imaginaries.
The exhibition combines works and artifacts from the Universalmuseum Joanneum’s various collections with works by contemporary artists (including numerous commissions). Organized into several fictitious departments, it tells stories that depart from local myth but reach out into the broader world.
Werner Fenz Grant for Art in Public Space
Clara Ianni presents the work that won her the Werner Frenz Grant for Art in Public Space. In addition, an exhibition sheds light on Werner Fenzʼs archive and a multiyear project of the Graz-based curator on the topic of the homeland.
herbst deathmatches
2024 is a year of heated political debates. In four “deathmatches,” steirischer herbst offers takes on some of the biggest issues in Europe’s present election cycle, with audience voting for the most persuasive argument.
herbst cabaret
For the third year in a row, steirischer herbst turns to cabaret and its gritty, gutsy social criticism. Six performances present a mix of burlesque, street chanson, stand-up, and macabre poetry in the intimate setting of Forum Stadtpark’s basement.
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Festivals-within-the-Festival
ORF musikprotokoll
Spaces of Freedom
3.10.–6.10., Graz
Open spaces are spaces of possibility. Music as a form of expression and entertainment needs these spaces to develop. ORF musikprotokoll 2024 asks: What do restrictions and expansions of free spaces do to music, its creators, and last but not least, to us as listeners?
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5.10., 09:30–15:30
6.10., 09:30–13:15
Perception, Listening, Mimesis, and Critique:
Concepts and Theories of Aesthetic Experience
Concepts and Theories of Aesthetic Experience
Out of Joint
Die Welt von Gestern /
Die Welt von Morgen
8.10.–11.10.
Hamlet says: “The time is out of joint,” and he is right. A war is raging in Europe that refuses to end. The European Community was once created to permanently prevent such acts of aggression. But what has become of this great European peace project?
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Partner Program
As always, the festival program of steirischer herbst is accompanied by a rich and varied Partner Program presented by local cultural institutions and artists. Twenty projects in Graz and Styria are part of this yearʼs festival.
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Xava Kasimir Mikosch
chimeric tendencies – process showing
chimeric tendencies – process showing
Kunsthaus Graz
KURS
We have always received something in exchange that we lived. On laziness
KURS
We have always received something in exchange that we lived. On laziness
Horror Patriae
Participating artists
Sarnath Banerjee
Renate Bertlmann
Anna Boghiguian
Sergey Bratkov
Pablo Bronstein
Madison Bycroft
Ieva Epnere
VALIE EXPORT
La Fleur
Peter Friedl
Robert Gabris
Tomislav Gotovac
Assaf Gruber
Felix Hafner and ensemble
Jan Peter Hammer
Thomas Hörl
Clara Ianni
Jakub Jansa
Nikolay Karabinovych
Alina Kleytman
David Kranzelbinder
Augustin Maurs
Mélange Oriental
Ari Benjamin Meyers
Marta Navaridas
Ingo Niermann and Erik Niedling
Yoshinori Niwa
Paulina Ołowska
Michèle Pagel
Hannes Priesch
Natalia Pschenitschnikova
Roee Rosen
Daniel Rycharski
Franz von Strolchen
Marko Tadić
Theater im Bahnhof
Helene Thümmel
Piotr Urbaniec
Thomas Verstraeten
Andreas Werner
herbst cabaret
László Göndör
hannsjana
Bernadette Laimbauer
Annina Machaz
Piotr Urbaniec
Alex Franz Zehetbauer
Artists from the Neue Galerie Graz collection
AES+F
András Felvidéki
Wolf Gössler
Hans Werner Poschauko
Drago Julius Prelog
Paolo Tessari
Norbert Trummer
Franco Vaccari
And others
