Joseph Grigely and an Exhibition Organized by Trisha Donnelly at Grazer Kunstverein
Arthur Ou, Untitled (Earth Works), 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
Astoria
Featuring Bob Nickas, Amy O’Neill, Arthur Ou and Adam Putnam
Organized by Trisha Donnelly
By invitation of the Grazer Kunstverein, artist Trisha Donnelly has organized an exhibition of works by Adam Putnam, Arthur Ou, Amy O’Neill and Bob Nickas. This exhibition underlines these artists’ and writers’ significance within current and future thinking on film, video and the photographic. To say the least.
The Members Library presents
Joseph Grigely
The Gregory Battcock Archive, 2009–15
Gregory Battcock (1937–80, US) was a New York–based artist who gave up his practice as a painter to become an art critic. He wrote on Minimalism, Conceptual Art, video art, and performance, and generally championed artists pushing the boundaries and definitions of contemporary art. In 1992, Joseph Grigely was exploring the recently abandoned facilities of a storage company in the same building as his studio when he found Battcock’s archive of manuscripts, photographs, and correspondence strewn throughout the space. After making copies of some of the material, he donated a bulk of the collection to the Archives of American Art. Grigely has since researched and worked with the archive in various ways over the years.
A publication entitled Oceans of Love: The Uncontainable Gregory Battcock is the first book to present a selection of Gregory Battcock’s prefaces and essays (from Minimalism, Idea Art, Why Art?, and other books), as well as columns published in underground newspapers in the 1970s.
The publication is co-published with Verlag Walther König, Printed Matter, New York and Kunstverein in Hamburg. The exhibition is co-produced with Kunstverein in Hamburg
On display continuously
The Peacock
February 1, 2013–present
A non-stop group show examining the interior of the Grazer Kunstverein by introducing (new)furniture, design, applied and decorative arts that analyze their own functionality.
December 12, 2015–February 21, 2016
Eloisa Ejarque*, Josh Faught, Nicolás Paris, Will Stuart, Robert Wilhite
*new addition
February 1, 2013–present
Ian Wilson
Please check their website for regular updates on their program. For further information, please contact office@grazerkunstverein.org.
Grazer Kunstverein is structurally supported by the city of Graz, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture, the province of Styria, Legero | con-tempus.eu, and its members. Both exhibitions are generously supported by the Embassy of the United States of America.
