In the Press
“One of Ekaterina Degot’s strongest years.”
Kleine Zeitung
“For years, the Russian native has been taking a stand against nationalism, the shift to the right in Europe, and Putin’s imperialism with the Graz art festival. Her clever and bold interventions are urgently needed.”
Monopol
“Ekaterina Degot and her team succeeded in producing an exhibition that clears up misconceptions and misunderstandings about the concepts of homeland and fatherland, which you simply have to think about.”
Kronen Zeitung
„Degot’s formula for the festival … has been notable for its political responsiveness to current events, chafing against the rise of nationalism in Europe and beyond.”
ArtReview
“[Augustin Maurs’s Out of Tune and Ari Benjamin Meyers’s Nation of Sleep:] two touching, unsettling performances at steirischer herbst”
Die Presse
“an edition more political than ever”
Le Quotidien de l’Art
“A cabinet of curiosities about the dark side of patriotism.”
Salzburger Nachrichten
“steirischer herbst is not a biennial or triennial, but produces newly commissioned works every year at an enormous speed.”
FAZ
“The great Graz culture festival seduces with contempt for the homeland in the midst of a far-right victory in Austria.”
El País
“Degot and her team … evoke the specter of nationalism without resorting to obtrusive didactics.”
e-flux Criticism
“If this edition of steirischer herbst had a crowning achievement, it was its ability to contain, with subversive satire, an immense breadth of mixed emotions under a heavy theme in a traumatic time.”
Mousse
“Maurs’s is a very reduced and cool performance, satire in the best sense of the word – and the laughter gets stuck in your throat.”
Spike
“Horror Patriae is an exhibition that requires a lot of reading. But it pays off.”
Der Standard