steirischer herbst ’19: Grand Hotel Abyss
19.9.–13.10.19
Opening days: 19.–22.9.19
Various venues in Graz and Styria, Austria
The title of the core program of steirischer herbst ’19 is Grand Hotel Abyss—a striking metaphor used by philosopher Georg Lukács to describe the European intellectual and cultural scene as it faced the approach of fascism. “The Grand Hotel Abyss has been thoughtfully decorated for every taste and every direction,” he wrote in an eponymous text, dated 1933 and published in German after his death. “Both intellectual intoxication and asceticism or self-flagellation are not only permitted in all their forms; there are brilliantly stocked bars for one purpose and amazingly manufactured exercise equipment and torture chambers for the other. Not only solitude but sociality too is on offer. . . . The danse macabre of worldviews plays out every day and every evening in this hotel. It becomes a jazz band both pleasant and thrilling, providing the guests with some rest after their exhausting daily regimen at the spa.”
→ Grand Hotel Abyss curatorial concept
→ Opening Speech by Ekaterina Degot
Director and Chief Curator
Ekaterina Degot
Concept
Ekaterina Degot and David Riff
Curatorial Team
Mirela Baciak, Ekaterina Degot,
Henriette Gallus, Dominik Müller,
Christoph Platz, and David Riff
Participating Artists
Ariel Efraim Ashbel and friends
Cibelle Cavalli Bastos
Alexander Brener and Barbara Schurz
Keti Chukhrov / Guram Matskhonashvili
Jasmina Cibic
Counterpositions (Eduard Freudmann, Thomas Geiger, and Elizabeth Ward)
Das Planetenparty Prinzip
Jeremy Deller
Bojan Djordjev / Goran Ferčec
Elmgreen & Dragset
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Jule Flierl
Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze
Riccardo Giacconi
Grupa Ee
Jakob Lena Knebl and Markus Pires Mata
The Life and Adventures of GL
Daniel Mann and Eitan Efrat
Oscar Murillo
Erna Ómarsdóttir & Valdimar Jóhannsson
Boris Ondreička
Manuel Pelmuș
Michael Portnoy
Blanka Rádóczy / Vladimir Sorokin
Hanna Rohn
Andreas Siekmann
Nedko Solakov
Andrei Stadnikov with Vanya Bowden, Shifra Kazhdan and Dmitry Vlasik
Theater im Bahnhof
Michiel Vandevelde
Gernot Wieland
Jaśmina Wójcik
Zorka Wollny
Artur Żmijewski
Venues
Visitor and Press Center → 1
Kaiser-Josef-Platz 4, 8010 Graz
Alte Galerie in Schloss Eggenberg → 2
Eggenberger Allee 90, 8020 Graz
Befreiungsdenkmal, Burggarten der Grazer Burg → 3
8010 Graz
Congress Graz → 4
Sparkassenplatz 1, 8010 Graz
Dr. Hans-Kloepfer-Büste near Türkenbrunnen → 5
Schloßberg, 8010 Graz
Forum Stadtpark → 6
Stadtpark 1, 8010 Graz
Girardigasse 8 → 7
8010 Graz
Grand Hotel Wiesler → 8
Grieskai 4-8, 8020 Graz
Grazer Kunstverein → 9
Burggasse 4, 8010 Graz
Griesplatz → 10
Corner of Griesplatz and Griesgasse, 8020 Graz
Großer Minoritensaal → 11
Mariahilferplatz 3, 8020 Graz
Gsellmann Weltmaschine → 12
Kaag 12, 8332 Edelsbach
Helmut List Halle → 13
Waagner-Biro-Straße 98a, 8020 Graz
herbstkantine → 1
Kaiser-Josef-Platz 4, 8010 Graz
Historic Hotels in Graz
Das Weitzer, Grand Hôtel Wiesler, Hotel Mariahilf, Palais-Hotel Erzherzog Johann, Parkhotel Graz, Schlossberghotel – Das Kunsthotel
Jahn-Denkmal → 16
Europaratweg, Stadtpark, 8010 Graz
Kloepfer-Denkmal → 17
Hans-Kloepfer-Platz, 8580 Köflach
Kunsthaus Graz → 18
Lendkai 1, 8020 Graz
Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst und Medien → 19
Burgring 2, 8010 Graz
Landhaushof → 10
Grazer Landhaus, Herrengasse 16, 8010 Graz
Literaturhaus Graz → 21
Elisabethstraße 30, 8010 Graz
Maria Verkündigungskirche → 22
Kroisbach, Am Rehgrund 2, 8043 Graz
Markthalle Eggenberg → 23
Corner of Hofbauerplatz and Krausgasse, 8020 Graz
Museum für Geschichte → 24
Sackstraße 16, 8010 Graz
Office of Open Questions → 1
Kaiser-Josef-Platz 4, 8010 Graz
Orpheum → 25
Orpheumgasse 8, 8020 Graz
Palais Attems → 26
Sackstrasse 17, 8010 Graz
Puch bei Weiz → 27
8182 Puch bei Weiz
Schloßbergplatz → 28
8010 Graz
Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Wartingersaal → 29
Karmeliterplatz 3, 8010 Graz
Ideas
Eva Illouz
The Happiness Imperative
20.9., 16:00
Hasso Spode
Tourism as an Index Fossil of Modernity—Continuity and Change
25.9., 19:00
Michał Murawski
The Political Aesthetics of the Architectural Gift
26.9., 18:00
Stephan Lessenich
Next to Us, the Deluge—The Society of Externalization and Its Costs
1.10., 19.00
Weltmaschine : Österreich
A festival of Literaturhaus Graz and steirischer herbst ’19
3.10.–5.10.
Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle
Here Come the Ecosexuals!
6.10., 18:00
Evan Calder Williams
Combined and Uneven Apocalypse Revisited
10.10., 18:00
Aaron Schuster
Absolute Lust—The History of Pleasure
12.10., 16:00
On the Dialectics of Pleasure and Ideology
Discussion and Finissage
13.10., 16:00