-> Artist's Talk SUN 5/18/2025 12:00 PM
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Artist's Talk with Veronika Hauer and Alois Kölbl about the exhibition "Veronika Hauer. Lingual Limbs".
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Resanita, Paradise (Installation bei der Leechkirche), 2017. Foto: Kölbl; Courtesy of QL-Galerie
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Katholische Hochschulgemeinde Graz & Afro-Asiatisches Institut Graz
Since its founding in 1964, the QL Gallery of the Catholic University Community and the Afro-Asian Institute has aimed to engage in dialogue with the art and artists of the time. Visits to studios and exhibitions are therefore part of our programme, alongside exhibitions in the Leechgasse student house and in the public space of ‘Paradise L.’ near the Leechkirche in Zinzendorfgasse, as well as art tours.
The gallery particularly endeavours to offer presentation opportunities to artists of the younger generation.
- Exhibition
5/15/2025 - 7/11/2025
Lingual Limbs
Veronika Hauer, Mint Melting Mouth, Foto: Thomas Raggam
Language, its mediation and connection to the body are at the heart of Veronika Hauer's work in an ironic and critical way. The soundtrack for the Lingual Limbs exhibition is the English nursery rhyme Sticks and stones may break my bones but words shall never hurt me, first mentioned in 1830. Aware of the performative power of language, Veronika Hauer puts an ironic twist on the original intention of the rhyme. Comic-like stylized bones form a painterly and plastic alphabetical system that inscribes itself into the exhibition like the “skeleton of language”.
Thus begins a coded game with meaning, poetry, sense and nonsense, which also continues in the participatory installation that Veronika Hauer has developed with Australian artist Katie Lee. Here, the first part of the rhyme Sticks and stones may break my bones (...) is expressed as an invitation to the audience to playfully interact with the existing objects and change their original order (even at the risk of breaking a bone). The provocation of action through the power of words and the invitation to become active can also be seen in the installation L O V E, a series of flags that can be used for performances.
- Artists:
- Veronika Hauer
- Veronika Hauer, born 1981, studied at Goldsmiths College London, the University of Applied Arts Vienna and École supérieure d ‚Arts graphiques, Paris. Hauer is co-founder and editor of the online magazine on contemporary art Nowiswere. From 2010 – 2019 she worked as a lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Department of Art and Communication Practice). Her work is presented at Project8 Gallery Melbourne, Parallel Vienna, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Kunstverein Baden, Grazer Kunstverein, IG Bildende Kunst Vienna, ICA London, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Glasgow International Festival, and widely in Vienna and Graz, most recently at Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, <rotor> Graz, Forum Stadtpark and Kunsthaus Graz. Hauer lives and works in Graz.
- curated by:
- Alois Kölbl