AWARDING OF THE
<ROTOR> ART PRIZE 2024 presented
by the members of the association to Anita
Fuchs Monday 7. April, 19:00
Location : < rotor >, Volksgartenstraße 6a, Graz
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Talking about the prizewinner Anita Fuchs: Katrin Bucher Trantow (Chief Curator Kunsthaus Graz)
and Oliver Gebhardt (bat expert)
Presentation of the award: Anna Schwinger (Mit Loidl
oder
Co. Graz, board member of the < rotor > association)
Design of the trophy: Christina Helena Romirer
Music contribution: Josef Fürpaß and Irma
Servatius
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In addition to the presentation and mediation of contemporary art, <
rotor >'s activities also include the facilitation and curatorial support
of new artistic productions. This fact is emphasised by the < rotor
> Art Prize, which is now being awarded for the first time. It is an
award for a new work of art produced in 2024.
From the works that emerged in 2024 in connection with the activities
of < rotor >, the works of six artists were proposed for the award:
Nayari Castillo, Anita Fuchs, Clara Oppel, Barbara Schmid, Marina
Stiegler, Helene Thümmel.
At the end of last year, the 117 members of the < rotor > association
at the time were invited to vote for one of the positions. Anita
Fuchs received the most votes and will now be awarded the first
< rotor > Art Prize at a ceremony on 7 April.
The prize is endowed with 1,000 euros, which comes from the membership
fees of the < rotor > association. The artist Christina Helena Romirer
was commissioned to design a trophy.
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In 2024, Anita Fuchs was represented in two consecutive exhibitions at
< rotor > with new works, both of which can be assigned to the same
work cycle.
Anita Fuchs‘ multimedia installation God Fortune deals with a specific
ecological cycle. Certain plants are host plants for certain insects,
which are the preferred food of bats. And their excrement in turn is fertilizer
for plants. The protagonist of the artwork is the endangered greater horseshoe
bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum), which has one of its last breeding colonies
in Austria in the attic of Schloss Eggenberg in Graz.
The work Sow Good Fortune is specifically about promoting proliferation,
especially of wild meadows. The artist was calling on meadow owners who
live in the area where the greater horseshoe bat hunts at night, around
Schloss Eggenberg and on the Plabutsch mountain, to help save the bats:
Sow wild plants! Numerous people responded to this call during the exhibition
and picked up the seed mixture available in < rotor >. • • • • •
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