28.03.2025 – 07.09.2025
The exhibition was on display at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York for less than ten days in 2020, as cultural institutions closed first in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the whole of New York was in lockdown from 20 March. The restrictions on freedom and open forms of surveillance and control that then took place worldwide in the name of security far exceeded all expectations and have had a lasting impact on societies. The rifts within society have widened, two wars on the outskirts of Europe and the effects of climate change have posed additional challenges to national communities, and the rise of nationalist ideologies and far-right tendencies that fantasise about border fortifications, remigration and measures for disagreeable citizens threaten the foundations of democratic communities. Was freedom an episode? Five years after the show in New York, the exhibition curated by Roman Grabner attempts to take stock of the current socio-political situation with new works by Austrian artists. Participating artists: Günter Brus, Maria Legat, Evamaria Schaller, studio ASYNCHROME, Josef Wurm, zweintopf and others.
Freedom was an episode (tbc)
28.03.2025 – 07.09.2025
Neue Galerie Graz
Joanneumsviertel, Zugang Kalchberggasse
8010 Graz
www.museum-joanneum.at
