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Lacrimosa

Josef Dabernig

21/09 - 17/11/2024, opening 20/09, 18:00

After two decades, Austrian artist and filmmaker Josef Dabernig returns to Grazer Kunstverein. The exhibition revolves around the Austrian premiere of his latest film, Lacrimosa (2024), which stages funeral ceremonies in the attic of a spooky villa. In the film, the artist’s elderly aunt gathers her great-grandnieces and great-grandnephew around a child’s coffin for a funeral prayer. Folded hands, furtive glances, rosaries, and a commode chair are the elements of an eccentric children’s game in which the illustrious group navigates between intimidation, rebellion, and a dangerous staircase, all while grappling with existential questions.

Lacrimosa sets the tone for a retrospective look at Dabernig’s moving-image oeuvre, filtered through the motifs of death, mourning, and elegy. The relation between the film and the scenography is conceived as an expanded form of sculpture, shaping the interplay of relic, domesticity, and letting go.

JOSEF DABERNIG (b. 1956, Lienz, Austria) is an artist and filmmaker living in Vienna. Recent solo exhibitions include Lancia Thema, The Black Box, Wschód, New York, USA (2023); Wisla, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark (2023); and Equally Not Nothing, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria (2020). Dabernig’s work was a part of the 49th and 50th Venice Biennale in 2001 and 2003; Manifesta 3 (2000, Ljubljana) and 10 (2014, St. Petersburg); the 9th Gwangju Biennale (2012); Contour – 6th Biennial of Moving Image, Mechelen (2013); Bergen Assembly (2013); and steirischer herbst, Graz (2020, 2022). His films have been featured across various film festivals internationally, including the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Locarno Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. In 2004, Dabernig presented his exhibition Josef Dabernig: Proposal for a New Kunsthaus, not further developed at Grazer Kunstverein, which was accompanied by a namesake publication.

A co-operation with steirischer herbst ’24

Josef Dabernig, Lacrimosa, film still, 2024.