Jugend am Werk – Results of the week

Malwerkstatt Graz / Jugend am Werk Steiermark

The Malwerkstatt Graz of Jugend am Werk Styria has, for over 30 years, provided artists with disabilities who wish to work on a daily basis with the space and support they need. Within the framework of the program “Day Support and Encouragement,” they are offered a fully equipped modern studio as well as artistic guidance. For them, art is not a hobby or pastime, but intensive work—work through which they actively shape the cultural life of Styria. Creating unique artworks means independence and recognition. The goal of the Malwerkstatt team and its artists is to achieve recognition within the cultural life of the city and the region as equal members of the artistic community.

/Die Malwerkstatt Graz von Jugend am Werk Steiermark bietet seit nunmehr 30 Jahren Künstler*innen mit Behinderung, die täglich arbeiten wollen, im Rahmen der Leistung „Tagesbegleitung und Förderung“ den entsprechenden Raum in Form eines modern ausgestatteten Ateliers und einer künstlerischen Förderung. Für sie ist Kunst kein Hobby oder Zeitvertreib, sondern intensive Arbeit. Mit dieser gestalten sie das steirische Kulturleben aktiv mit. Einzigartige Kunstwerke zu schaffen, bedeutet für sie Unabhängigkeit und Anerkennung.
Ziel des Teams und der Künstler*innen der Malwerkstatt ist es, deren Anerkennung im Kulturleben der Stadt und des Landes als gleichwertige Kunstschaffende zu erreichen.

Poolside Privilege

Video installation/Videoinstallation

2025

Casual but deep. Who’s lounging poolside, who’s going under?
Art-making between existence and exclusion, Franz Kline aesthetics and influencer chic.
A video installation about surface, access, and the right to visibility.
Stylish, wet, and not entirely in agreement.

/Lässig und tief. Wer liegt am Beckenrand, wer säuft ab?
Kunstmachen zwischen Existenz und Exklusion, Franz-Kline-Optik und Influencer-Chic.
Eine Videoinstallation über Oberfläche, Zugang und das Recht auf Sichtbarkeit.
Stilvoll, nass, nicht ganz einverstanden.

with/mit

Annemarie Adam

Moritz Barnard

Gerhard Hammerl

Justin Podesser

Sabine Thaller

conception/Konzeption

René Corvaia-Koch

technical setup/Technik

Tom Biela

René Corvaia-Koch

Malwerkstatt | Jugend am Werk Steiermark

JUGEND AM WERK

Detail: Annemarie Adam

other artists

OBERDECK #22: Mirjam Schrei (AT)

Moments. An undefined unit of time – fleeting and yet sometimes eternal.
In her series of paintings entitled “Atmosphere of the Moment”, Mirjam Schrei explores the connection between photography and painting and examines the process of remembering. The works
are based on photographs from her archive and capture the fleeting character of personal experiences.

Alica Minar (CZE) + Tim Winter (DE)

If we openly share our desires, what will happen? And what will happen if we start to fulfill them, on stage, in the audience? How would their confession change the very moment and the social setting we’re part of NOW, among friends, strangers, comrades?

Julia & Michael Walk (AT) + Gabriel Huth (AT)

This dinner performance explores the tension between rules and improvisation in the cooking process and invites guests to become active participants in the creative transformation of ingredients and recipes. The structure of the evening is not determined in advance , but develops in real time through the dynamics between the chefs, guests, space and ingredients.

Andrea Gava (ITA) + Grazer Impro Klub

The GIK – Grazer Impro Klub sees itself as a platform for the preservation, consolidation and cultivation of the musical practice of improvisation and genre-free musical experimentation.

Jugend am Werk – Work in progress

Schaumbad is actively involved in this process by including artists with disabilities in its programs – with the GIF as the leading series in terms of inclusion.

Susa Kern (AT)

Individual frames are designed and made from used spectacle parts.
The focus is on improvisation and creative design.

George Cremaschi (USA/CZE)

…works with a variety of approaches and strategies in the areas overlapping music, sound art and noise.

B the Beat (AT)

Dance battle with impro flow!
dancers will perform to live improvised music. The focus is on the exchange with the musicians as well as the possibility of a “connection” with each other.
The “audience” and all the people in the room ultimately become active performers and are invited to get involved in this musical journey and create new movements!

Corinna Eikmeier (DE)

What are the interactions between the quality of movement in music-making and the quality of improvisation? Aspects relevant to improvisation from two research projects will be presented.

The Kumberg Gatherers

The core is expressing itself at the moment without structures or concepts. In terms of content, this evening is open and can develop in any direction, depending on which influences are currently present and determine the path…

Maria Gstättner (AT)

In this lecture performance, Maria Gstättner talks about her experience of how sound becomes a medium in free improvisation – a fleeting mediator between body and space, an impulse for transformation. It is about those moments in which the inexplicable takes shape and condenses into sound, breath and silence.