RIDICULOUSLY YOURS!
ART, AWKWARDNESS AND ENTHUSIASM

Presented simultaneously by the Neue Galerie Graz and HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, the exhibition adventures through humor of disaster, bad taste, a camp approach, B-movie culture, science fiction, horror as well as immaturity, idiocy, intuition, passion and enthusiasm.

Thematic sections feature works by numerous key artists – from Marcel Duchamp to Francis Picabia, René Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico to Elaine Sturtevant, Alfred Jarry, Sigmar Polke, Maria Lassnig and Robert Breer to contemporary figures such as Paul McCarthy, Nicole Eisenman, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Isa Genzken, Pauline Curnier-Jardin, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Cosima von Bonin, Jakob Lena Knebl, Henrike Naumann, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Jeffrey Vallance as well as Ming Wong, among others.

In addition to numerous loans coming from European and American museums as well as private collections, also included are works from the Universalmuseum Joanneum collection in Graz, featuring, for example, pieces by Rembrandt van Rijn from the Alte Galerie or by Josef Danhauser, Jiri Kovanda and Martin Kippenberger from the Neue Galerie Graz.