The Way Out
Posters
Commissioned work
Nilbar Güreş, Human as a Virus (2021), poster in public space, Graz. Photo: Johanna Lamprecht
Hans Haacke, We (All) Are the People (2003‒2017/2021), poster in public space, Graz. Photo: Johanna Lamprecht
Horst Gerhard Haberl, TUO YAW EHT (2021), poster in public space, Graz. Photo: Johanna Lamprecht
Li Ran, Go Forward (2021), poster in public space, Graz. Photo: Johanna Lamprecht
Boris Mikhailov, Our Granddaughter Karinotchka, Age Six, Kharkov 2001 (2021), poster in public space, Graz. Photo: Johanna Lamprecht
Amanullah Mojadidi, Little Blue (2021), poster in public space, Graz. Photo: Johanna Lamprecht
Dana Sherwood, Inside the Belly of the Alpine Ibex (2021), poster in public space, Graz. Photo: Johanna Lamprecht
Mounira Al Solh, Things My Neighbour Could Say as She’s Watching the Sunset (2021), poster in public space, Graz. Photo: Johanna Lamprecht
Piotr Szyhalski, The Way Out Is the Way In (2021), poster in public space, Graz. Photo: Johanna Lamprecht
Rosemarie Trockel, Carissima (2021), poster in public space, Graz, photo: Johanna Lamprecht
Dates
9.9.–10.10.2021
Details
Nilbar Güreş
Hans Haacke
Horst Gerhard Haberl
Li Ran
Boris Mikhailov
Amanullah Mojadidi
Dana Sherwood
Mounira Al Solh
Piotr Szyhalski
Rosemarie Trockel
Location
Graz
Posters by artists have always been one of the strong points of steirischer herbst’s festival program. In the 1970s, some of them even made headlines and created a local scandal. Without necessarily aiming at one but carrying on the tradition strongly connected to Graz and its people, the festival this year wants to disrupt the public space, nowadays saturated with glossy images of all kinds, with new artist’s works, sometimes enigmatic but always memorable. Artists were asked to react to the slogan The Way Out, but not necessarily to illustrate or refer to it directly. What we see are not always posters in the strict sense, but fragments of the artists’ rich imagination, fluctuating freely between scenes of pure fantasy, split-second life impressions, and direct political statements.
Retrospective
Retrospective