Volksgarten

“Volksgarten. Politics of Belonging” aims at depicting a monographic portrait of Lend and Gries, the city districts where Kunsthaus Graz is being located. The title concept of “Volksgarten” implicates an abstract and a concrete site of an open and democratic space where a variety of identities is being shaped and consequently negotiated. Ethnically complex, multicultural and socially diverse, Lend and Gries function as a metaphor of urban, political, cultural and national transformations. The exhibition is going to investigate identification systems and strategies of belonging within given differentiated neighbourhoods and communities. What are the forms of co-habitation? How social utopias are being constructed? What are the possible scenarios of collective and communal life? “Volksgarten” is a playground where a complex production of social space occurs: here, the legality and legitimacy of space are being tested; here, too, space’s accessibility is challenged through a dense network of multiply human relations on the crossway of local and global economies.

Kuratorin / Kurator: Adam Budak
Kuratorin / Kurator: Peter Pakesch
Kuratorin / Kurator: Katia Schurl
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Airline
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Pawel Althamer
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Kutlug Ataman
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Bik van der Pol
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Los Carpinteros
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Thomas Hirschhorn
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Johanna Kandl
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Helmut Kandl
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Sharon Lockhart
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Maria Papadimitriou
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Daniel Roth
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: Manfred Willmann