Celina Eceiza: Ofrenda
October 25, 2025–January 18, 2026
Graz 8010
Austria
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10am–6pm
Diego Bianchi: Errores Irreales
Diego Bianchi (*1969 Buenos Aires, lives in Buenos Aires) is considered one of Argentina’s leading artists and has, in particular, updated the concept of sculpture. For his installative and performative exhibition Errores Irreales, Bianchi has assembled a selection of his sculptures that play with the concept of the body by activating them performatively in a specially created architectural setting. For the elaborate and detailed production of his mysterious yet sensitive sculptures, Bianchi uses unconventional materials such as specifically found objects from the urban spaces of Buenos Aires, Paris, and Graz. These can be inconspicuous small things that supposedly have no particular value or meaning, or car parts, metals, plastics, and fashion items. The result is a stage-like landscape of sculptures and installation interventions that make demands on our emotions while engaging and playing with both the physical and the quasi-organic internal realms in dystopian stylish ways.
In various overlapping settings—sometimes also activated by performers—there emerges a “nebulous whole” that is paradigmatic for the time in which we live. The performances, reminiscent of a theatrical penitential procession or a dystopian fashion show, and the videos shown raise awareness of the circulation of things and their recipients and carriers, recalling ongoing debates about consumer-oriented overproduction and our throwaway society versus sustainable circular economy and ecological climate protection. In the artist’s confusing games with our and other bodies, psychosocial interactions come to light, impressively portrayed in their specificity and variance, thus pointing beyond the level of the visible. Common comparisons between subject and object begin to falter, giving way to a more open understanding of the world of objects that can be activated in relation to the self. Bianchi uses humor as a subversive strategy to counteract the tragedy of existence and all our current crises by means of a disturbing but utopian scenario. Curated by Sandro Droschl.
Celina Eceiza: Ofrenda
In cooperation with the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark the first solo exhibition in Europe of Argentinian artist Celina Eceiza (*1988 Tandil, lives in Buenos Aires) is on view. Ofrenda [Offering] presents a way of inhabiting a space as if the architecture were a body, changing states as you pass from one room to the next. The rigidity of the building collapses as the walls are draped in thousands of metres of fabric joined together through the collective and timeless action of sewing, until they form a single smooth surface, sensitive to the slightest change. For the yellow entrance of the installation, Eceiza delved into an investigation of the Museo Moderno’s collection. She then reinterpreted selected paintings in new pieces, using delicately interwoven textiles in resplendent collaged forms to showcase her own, alternative reading of Argentinian modern art history. Ofrenda’s red room is filled with numerous gigantic chalk drawings on canvas and hand-dyed fabrics and carpets. The compositions are highly symbolic, depicting different beings and bodies undergoing transformations. This painterly “skin” with its metaphorical wrinkles and folds feels organic; it is resilient and yet delicate.
Eceiza constructs a “soft,” welcoming museum through elaborate and detailed handicraft in which seeing is no longer the only or most important sense to be engaged. This intimate and collective experience displays its political power by presenting art as a living form, which opens up rooms for social gatherings. In Ofrenda, the artist presents a rare gift that offers hope and a joy for life in difficult times. We enter Eceiza’s fantastic world, filled with impulsive inhabitants, and leave transformed, having experienced a freer vision of our own bodies and their social power.
Coproduction: HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark & Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. Curated by Sandro Droschl in collaboration with Agustina Vizcarra.
Public program. Press inquiries: Helga Droschl / T 0316 740084. Press download.
