Ladies and Gentlemen,

perhaps you have followed our spring and summer activities. Many creative people have been hard at work contacting residents of the Annenviertel and have really given their best. In the frame of workshops and participatory projects they wanted to find out which worlds there actually exist in the Annenviertel and who breathes life into them. What the people here think about living, working, shopping, the green spaces etc etc …

And it reached many people, indeed! Around the Idlhof alone, where a team went from door to door with drawing boards, 350 people allowed themselves to be persuaded into contributing a drawing. Not bad! But other things too were a surprise for us. For example, the fact that twelve owners of houses in the area responded to our offer of a new house front. That’s pretty courageous to be able to imagine a young artist’s design on one’s own house front! The Volksgarten too was the location of one of our activities. There we organized a series of workshops that were attended by both people who had registered in advance and people who just happened to be in the park and wanted to take part out of curiosity. Spontaneously and in a relaxed atmosphere.

In case we haven’t excited your curiosity by now just come and view the exhibition presented in this booklet. We promise you, there’ll be a lot to see again at the < rotor >.

Margarethe Makovec, Anton Lederer, Elke Krasny
The program team

The exhibition The World in a Few Steps is organized in coproduction with the steirischer herbst festival, the City of Graz - Building Authority, District Management Annenviertel, www.stadtentwicklung.graz.at and with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union

Individual project modules are realized in collaboration with:
Arbeiterkammer Steiermark, BAN, Caritas, Die Villa, in der wir wohnen, Druckerei Alexander Bauer - Wolfgang Khil, Grazer Wechselseitige, Kunstverein Baodo, Lendwirbel, Next Andrä / Akademie Graz, Pensionistenverband Ortsgruppe Lend, Radio Helsinki, Rebikel - Verein zur Rettung weggeworfener Fahrräder, Rembrandtin Farbexperte, Steirischer Dachverband der offenen Jugendarbeit, Traumwerk, UNIQA, YAP - Young Active People

ANNENVIERTEL! is supported by:
Stadt Graz: Kulturamt, Amt für Jugend und Familie, Integrationsreferat, Abteilung für Grünraum und Gewässer; Land Steiermark: Kulturabteilung, Landesjugendreferat, Kultur Service Gesellschaft, Cinestyria Filmkunst; Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur; Bezirsrat Lend; Gesunder Bezirk Gries; Einkaufszentrum Annenstraße; Mit Loidl oder Co. Graz, mur.at

ANNENVIERTEL! is a part of:
THE ART OF URBAN INTERVENTION a project by < rotor > association for contemporary art/ Graz, University of J. E. Purkyne/ Usti nad Labem, [BLOK] - Local Base for cultural refreshment/ Zagreb (in collaboration with DeL Ve | Institute for Duration, Location and Variables, Zagreb), The Blue House Foundation/ Amsterdam, Institute of Contemporary Art/ Sofia and NABA - New Academy of Fine Arts/ Milano.