| Diagonale ’25 | Trailer |
A co-production of Diagonale and Kunsthaus Graz
For Diagonale ‘25, artist and filmmaker Simona Obholzer designed the trailer entitled The Lawn is the Most Pleasant Sight in the Scenery. Lawns need to breathe, as the saying goes in gardening. But the films on the screen also need to breathe. In this year’s Diagonale trailer, a continuation of their film DIN 18035, both breathe at the same time. Shot by shot, with almost mathematical precision, the artist demonstrates how the functional transformation of nature gives birth to the uncanny, while the very first image evokes the depths of film history: streaks run across the grass, like the phantasmatic fades of silent cinema. The supposed film trick turns out to be a simple protective film. And yet Obholzer also has resolute ghostly hands at work. What doesn’t fit is made to fit. Nevertheless, there is always a surplus, a surge.
Exhibition at the Kunsthaus Graz:
Simona Obholzer
Angenehm für das Auge, weich für die Füße
What do clouds feel like under your feet? Can a lawn be infinite? And how does the ground on which we move direct our gaze? At Kunsthaus Graz, Simona Obholzer invites us to rediscover the floor as a fundamental surface. Her installation in the cave-like Space03 combines reduced forms with subtle sensory impressions, questions familiar perspectives and playfully opens up new points of view. Sound and movement permeate the space and make it possible to experience it while standing, sitting or lying down. Curated by Katia Huemer.
Opening: Fr März 28, 11 a.m.
Exhibition: March 29 to April 21, 2025
The Director
Simona Obholzer © Paul Pibernig
Simona Obholzer (*1982, Austria) lives and works in Vienna. She is a visual artist working with graphic, text, photography and video. She graduated from the School for Artistic Photography by Friedl Kubelka in Vienna and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Video and Video Installation, where she received her diploma in Fine Art. An exchange at the Glasgow School of Art in the department of Fine Art Photography is also part of her educational background.
Simona Obholzer received several grants, latest the most promising award for contemporary art of the federal state of Tyrol (2016), the START-grant for Video and Media Art by the Austrian ministry for culture (2015), the OE1 Talents Scholarship for Fine Arts (2013). In 2015 she held a residency scholarship at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris. Her work is nationally and internationally shown in exhibitions and at film festivals. In 2024, she was awarded the City of Graz Prize for Innovative Cinema for DIN 18035 at the Diagonale.