Section "Center for Contemporary Art"
The section "Center for Contemporary Art" is dedicated to concrete questions and problems that arise from the arts, art studies and art theory and that are guiding social developments - in their current constellation as well as in their historical genesis - in order to discuss the potential of the arts and art studies in the contexts of the present. This makes it possible, on the one hand, to unite important questions of contemporary culture in a historical and systematic perspective, drawing on all disciplines that constitute knowledge of the present, and, on the other hand, to free the arts from their still passive state as a purely reflexive medium for these contexts and to grasp the creative and problem-oriented potential of the arts themselves.
Head of the Section "Center for Contemporary Art"
Univ.-Prof. Sabine Flach MA PhD
Cooperation partners
| Partners | Contact us |
|---|---|
| Kunsthaus Graz Lendkai 1 8020 Graz, Austria | Director: Andreja Hribernik |
| HALLE FÜR KUNST Styria Burgring 2 8010 Graz, Austria | Director, Curator: Sandro Droschl Curator: Cathrin Mayer |
| Graz Art Association Burggasse 4 8010 Graz, Austria | Management: Tanja Gurke Artistic director: Tom Engels |
| University of Graz Center for Intermediality in Graz (CIMIG) | Head: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Nassim Winnie Balestrini |
| Cooperation partners:inside Transcontinental | |
| School of Visual Arts, New York City SVA Fine Arts Department | Department Chair Prof. Suzanne Anker |
| University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning StrangeTools Lab | Prof. Dr. Kristopher Holland |
| University of Pretoria, South Africa Research Chair in Critical Architecture and Urbanism | Prof. Dr. Noëleen Murray-Cooke |
| Network partners | |
| Chamäleon - Network for Theory and Practice for Contemporary Art in Graz | Elisabeth Passath, MA |
Scientific Advisory Board
- Associate Professor Dr. Klaus Rieser
Department of American Studies, University of Graz - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Steffen Schneider
Department of Romance Studies, University of Graz - Prof. Suzanne Anker
SVA Chair Fine Arts Department, SVA New York City - Prof. Dr. Kristopher Holland
College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, University of Cincinnati - Prof. Noëleen Murray
Research Chair, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria - Associate Prof. Doz. Dr. Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
Intitute for Art and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna - Alexandra Hammond
Artist, New York City
Activities
Series of events
Under the title Correspondences and Dialogues current, highly topical socio-political issues are dealt with - varying every two years - and situated in a practical-artistic realization and scientific-theoretical situation.
Other activities of the division
- Establishment of a cooperation with the Strange Tools Research Lab and its director Prof. Dr. Kristopher Holland, University of Cincinnati since May 2021
- Development of an international doctoral school with a focus on modern and contemporary art with cooperation partners in North America and Germany
- Submission of an FWF application with the international cooperation partners: Prof. Dr. Krist opher Holland and DJ Hellerman