In the Press
“one of the big meetings of contemporary art in Austria”
Le Monde
“With A War in the Distance. Prologue, steirischer herbst has cut a canal into the eye of the storm—difficult to observe and yet important to see.”
Der Standard
“Once again Ekaterina Degot shows her instinct for current developments.”
Kurier
“That Ukrainian artists exhibit together with Russian ones is no longer evident. Ekaterina Degot has pulled this off, however.”
Die Tageszeitung
“Despite the serious subject matter, A War in the Distance is definitely enjoyable—thanks to the clever weaving of various narratives between fact and fiction and the occasionally bizarre finds …”
Monopol
“a strong sign of life from steirischer herbst”
Salzburger Nachrichten
“A more than rewarding visit!”
Kronen Zeitung
“A War in the Distance always manages to maintain a delicate balance, which becomes clear through the skillful creation of transhistorical associations. Present and past intertwine dialectically, like a montage of moments in time.”
Rekto:Verso
“More events, more quality: … at the close, steirischer herbst is satisfied with the festival’s numbers. And it can be—thanks also to a clear artistic success.”
Kleine Zeitung
“Ekaterina Degot has thus maneuvered Austria's best-known multidisciplinary festival even more strongly in the direction of the visual arts.”
Der Tagesspiegel
“The biggest achievement of the exhibition lies in the fact that it doesn’t attempt to talk “about” the war, or even about “a” war, but rather question the very existence of the above-suggested distance and the alleged idle-detachment of specific “peaceful” strongholds from the world around them.”
Arts of the Working Class