TYPE OF MOBILITY: With Travel
COSTS COVERED: Research / Production Grant Stipend / Fee
OPEN FOR:Individuals & Organisations & Collectives — Artists
ART FORM / DISCIPLINE: Cross-disciplinary
ORGANISATIONS: Steirischer Herbst
In honour of art historian and curator Werner Fenz (1944–2016), and on the initiative of more than two hundred artists, curators, critics, and other members of the art world, the City of Graz’s cultural affairs department launched a grant for art in public space in 2020. Starting in 2023, this biennial grant will be awarded jointly by the festival for contemporary art steirischer herbst and the City of Graz. It targets national and international projects that address the cultural and political context of Graz, Austria. As an internationally renowned curator, theorist, and educator, member of numerous committees, and founder and director of the Institute for Art in Public Space Styria (2006–11), Werner Fenz combined theory and practice in an uncompromising and exemplary manner, continuously raising the profile of art in public space – in and outside of Graz. He was closely associated with steirischer herbst and realized countless projects there. The grant is designed to promote art that gives a critical impetus to public space and social change, art that ‘assumes social responsibility’ (Werner Fenz) and seeks to engage citizens.
Projects can deal with economic, political, social, ecological, architectural, or urban development issues. They should contribute to the discourse on current forms of art in public space and address the sociopolitical context of the city of Graz and the province of Styria. The focus is on temporary projects that infiltrate everyday life and latch onto existing public structures. The grant award is 17,000 EUR, of which 12,000 are dedicated to the realisation of the artwork and 5000 to the artist’s fee. The grantee’s work will be presented as part of steirischer herbst ’24 (September/October 2024).
Deadline: 15 August 2023 More info & apply
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