Kunsthaus Graz
Hito Steyerl
Animal Spirits

Exhibition

Hito Steyerl, Animal Spirits, installation view National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), 2022, photo: Hong Cheolki, MMCA, Korea, © Hito Steyerl, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, Esther Schipper, Berlin, and Bildrecht, Wien 2022

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What is a garden, a habitat, a sphere, a “cave”? In a direct dialogue with the Kunsthaus Graz, renowned German artist and essayistic documentary filmmaker Hito Steyerl is creating an installation that grows and interlocks on digital as well as analogue levels in the dark cupola of Space01. In a maelstrom of pulsating images, digital rhythms, and sounds, Steyerl has the audience speculate on the relations between language and aesthetic form, between technological structures, biological life, and power-preserving systems. Her works offer trenchant analyses of our high-tech society that, in multiple, partially interactive narratives, identify the image as a site where the world is perceived and play with the manipulative power of the visual. The artist thereby follows “reality expanded by technology,” critically and subversively with ecological systems and their ties to global flows of capital and goods, to migration and the question of participation in existing power structures.

21.9., 20:00

Opening

24.9., 11:00
Short introduction
Parallel Program Tour

22.9.22–8.1.23
Exhibition

Kunsthaus Graz (Space01)
Lendkai 1
8020 Graz ♿

Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00
10,50/9/4 euros

Curated by Katrin Bucher Trantow

Within the framework of steirischer herbst ’22

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