Fri, 17. January 2025, 5pm
Stadtwerkstatt, Servus Clubraum

For many years, WERKSTADT GRAZ has been celebrating this day of action in cooperation with BASIS.WIEN, DORFTV, KUNSTGARTEN, NYXAS, GRAZ MUSEUM, CAMPUS PRENNING, Ö1 and ZOLLAMT as a tribute to art and a reminder of the presence of art in daily life. This year, for ART'S BIRTHDAY 2025, we are celebrating at the STADTWERKSTATT LINZ!

WERKSTADT GRAZ / STADTWERKSTATT LINZ / DORF.TV / BASIS WIEN / RADIO FRO / SERVUS.AT invite you!

In addition to a birthday cake, on 17 January at the STADTWERKSTATT there will be:

“WERKSTADT GRAZ VON A–Z | ALMANACH”
Book: 688 pages (hardcover)
Format: 19.5 x 25 cm
Weight: 2.14 kg
Illustrations: 1,044 (b/w + colour)
Letters: 705,268
Language: German/English
Bookmark: Sigmund-Freud-Fifty-Schilling-Banknote to cut out!
Publisher: Helene Baur, Joachim Baur
VERLAG WERKSTADT GRAZ | ISBN 978-3-901793-19-6
RRP: €38

The WERKSTADT GRAZ is an art institute with an international outlook that was founded 40 years ago. The new almanac book offers insights into topics such as: breadless art, landscape, body, contemporary music, festival of heroes of civilisation, autonomous academy, poetry in the age, from the estate of photography, long night of museums, world cultural heritage, slow motion, architecture, monuments, sculptures, jewellery museum, media art laboratory, Mozart, minerals, August Musger – inventor of slow motion, On the Tectonics of the Human, works on paper, official exercises, virus – virality – virtuality, life after the virus, marathon, psychoanalysis and money, and much more.

With contributions from: Alina Kolar, Anita Witek, Anna Jermolaewa, August Musger, August Ruhs, Bazon Brock, Caroline Heider, Claudia Märzendorfer, Colette M.Schmidt, Daniela Comani, David Staretz, Dirck Möllmann, Eduardo Kac, Elisabeth List, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Franz Ablinger, Franz Schuh, Franz West, Franz Xaver, Friederike Pezold, Friedl Kubelka, Georg Ritter, Gottfried Bechtold, Günter Eichberger, Günther Holler-Schuster, Hajo Eickhoff, Heidi Grundmann, Herbert Brandl, Herbert Lachmyer, Horst Gerhard Haberl, Ingeborg Strobl, Irene Andessner, Josef Spiegel, Joulia Strauss, Julie Ryan , Karin Frank, Katherina Olschbaur, Konrad Paul Liessmann, Lioba Reddeker, Manfred Erjautz, Mari Ishikawa, Matta Wagnest, Matthias Reichelt, Melanie Ohnemus, Michael Stoeber, Nana Schulz, Nicole Malbec, Oliver Ressler, Peter Weibel, Petra Maitz, Rainer Fuchs, R amesh Daha, Regula Stämpfli, Sabine Flach, Seiichi Furuya, Susanne Scholl, Tamuna Siribiladze, Thomas Miessgang, Timm Ulrichs, Timothy Druckrey, Ursula Neugebauer, VALIE EXPORT, Verena Zickler, Werner Schwab, Yoko Tawada, and many more

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MORE ABOUT ARTS BIRTHDAY:

The French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou proposed this day, 17 January, as ANNIVERSAIRE DE L'ART (ART'S BIRTHDAY) - as the birthday of art and thus called for “making art and celebrating art on this day”. The various parties, whether they take place in a living room, in a museum, in the STADTWERKSTATT LINZ studio or in the WERKSTADT GRAZ_AD, form a network – the “Eternal Network” as Filliou called it – and celebrate the “Fête Permanente”. On 17 January 2025, we will celebrate the 1,000,062nd birthday of art.

From 1943, Robert Filliou was active in the French resistance against the murderous and inhumane terror of Nazi policy in Europe.

Basir Ahmad Ahmadi, Christian Amerstorfer, Helene Baur, Joachim Baur, Isabel Belherdis, Jacqueline Böhm, Bazon Brock, Ida-Marie Corell, Juliane Croce, Christian Egger, Robert Filliou, Bibi Finster, Anna Friedinger, Günter Getzinger, Gabriel Hirnthaler, Irmi Horn, Josef Klammer, Alina Kolar, Maria Ines, Plaza Lazo, Hannes Loichinger, Nicole Malbec, Tabea Marschall, Hector May, Malina Mertlitsch, Annette Rainer, Katja Ratschiller, Paul Riedmann, Georg Ritter, Martin Schitter, Pauł Sochacki, Anna Soucek, Clemens Stöttinger, Wolfgang Straßnig, Magda Tothova, Franz Xaver, Elisabeth Zimmermann, and many more.

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