zweintopf

One Monument in Time

location: Forum Stadtpark Graz / public space
duration: 12th november 2021 – 29th january 2022

artists: Martin Behr, Anita Fuchs, Marlene Haring, Marlene Hausegger, Sasha Kurmaz, Luiza Margan/Eduard Freudmann, Ryts Monet, Rainer Nöbauer-Kammerer, Josef Pillhofer, Werner Reiterer, Winfried Ritsch, Pavla Sceranková, Anna Vasof

curator: zweintopf
in cooperation: Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark

graphicdesign: Anna Miklavcic & Sophia Krayc
publication design: Anna Jochum & Sophie Löw

photos: Lena Prehal
publication:
FORUM KUNST HEUTE
One Monument in Time
Verlag Forum Stadtpark
42*29.7cm
ISBN 978-3-901109-76-8
edition of 150, numbered

It is part of the essence of public monuments to interweave the present and thus everyday urban life with a collective past. In Graz’s Stadtpark, too, monuments function both spatially and temporally as fixed points that show us the passing of time as we walk by. Here, however, many a monument has lost its historically reminiscent function and has become a mere backdrop.

Where strict monument protection covers the entire park like a leaden cloak, artists are all the more challenged to become active with subtle interventions and to undermine the all too familiar with their temporary settings: What could conceivable monuments do today? Where are the points of contact with what moves us today? And how temporary can a so-called „monument“ actually be?