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To mark the publication of Veronika Eberhart's new book by Spector Books, Forum Stadtpark invites you to a discussion with audio samples.

The publication is published in collaboration with the IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art and Phileas - The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art, and is supported by the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, the City of Vienna, the Vienna Future Fund, the Austrian Cultural Forum Brussels, the Province of Styria, the City of Graz, the Kunstraum Steiermark grant and Bildrecht. It contains texts by Kevin Vennemann, Brenda Guesnet, Ian F. Svenonius and Veronika Eberhart.

Based on the exile years of the composer Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962), during which he was repeatedly interrogated by the Committee for Un-American Activities (HUAC), Veronika Eberhart presents new sculptural, photographic and filmic works. Eberhart's work is characterised by an inward-looking gaze that is reflected in a detailed search for clues. Specific historical references are brought together to form complex structures.

The book will be presented in conversation with Markus Waitschacher (cultural anthropologist, curator, art mediator) and Veronika Eberhart, accompanied by audio samples by Hanns Eisler.

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Book design: Marie Artaker

21x 27cm
128 pages
Leipzig April, 2024
ISBN: 9783959058124

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

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About the artist

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Veronika Eberhart | Garten sprengen

VERONIKA EBERHART, born in Bad Radkersburg, Austria, is an artist and musician. Her artistic work covers a broad spectrum between film, sound, performance, photography, sculpture and installation. Eberhart's practice is characterised by a strong musicality as well as an exploration of conceptual questions and spatial metaphors.

She studied sociology in Vienna and Copenhagen and fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Carola Dertnig and Ashley Hans Scheirl. Her works have been shown in numerous exhibitions and at film festivals, most recently, among others at the IKOB - Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgium (2024), at the Diagonale, Graz (2024), at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin (2024), at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2023), at the school, Vienna (2022), at the Établissement d'en face, Brussels (2020), at the Mackey Garage Top, MAK Center, Los Angeles (2020), at Kunsthalle Wien (2019), at Kharkiv Municipal Gallery (2019), at New Jörg, Vienna (2019), at Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (2018), at rotor, Graz (2018), at Bazament Art Space, Tirana (2018), at A-GALLERY, Tokyo (2017) and at Neue Galerie Graz, Studio (2017).
In 2017 she was awarded the Theodor Körner Prize for Fine Arts, in 2019 she received the Schindler Scholarship at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, and in 2023-2024 the Kunstraum Steiermark Scholarship.