Michael Petrovich

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Michael Petrowitsch (* 1968 in Spielfeld ) is an Austrian minority rights activist , artist and curator . He was a co-founder and long-time director of the Pavel House .

Life

Petrovich grew up in southern Styria , attended schools in Graz, studied German and Slovenian philology at the University of Graz and graduated in 1996 with a Mag. Phil. from. He became involved as a minority rights activist and since 1993 as managing director of the "Article VII-Kulturverein" in Graz for the Slovenes in Styria. As director and curator of the Pavelhaus , he was responsible for the program and exhibitions of the bilingual cultural center in Laafeld near Bad Radkersburg . He ran the expansion and redesign of the minority museum on the past and present of the Styrian Slovenes in the west wing of the house and edited numerous publications of the Pavelhaus. From 2003 to 2009 he was chairman of IG Kultur Steiermark. From September 2009 he worked in cultural policy for the state councilors Kurt Flecker and Bettina Vollath . He is chairman of the international art and culture association EPeKA-Austria.

In the management of the Universalmuseum Joanneum , Petrowitsch has been developing events and projects on the topics of migration and integration since 2011. As part of the 2012 Capital of Culture year in Maribor , he curated the “Borderline” project, among other things.

In 2013, the pumpkin culture initiative in Wies presented photographic works by Michael Petrowitsch for one year. In March 2014 the Styrian Cultural Initiative showed photographic series by Michael Petrowitsch in the Orpheum in Graz . In May 2014 a personal event followed in the Grottenhof cultural park center. As part of the "Steirischer Herbst" festival in 2016, he curated the exhibition Bratstvo i Jedinstvo - Under the Sign of Deregulation at the Haus der Architektur Graz . In November and December 2016 Michael Petrovich had a personal in the gallery K8 in Maribor. As part of the Styrian cultural initiative in the former Palais Dietrichstein , he curated the exhibition Are you still Alive? Together with Isin Önol . - Voices of Conscience at a Time of Silencing in March 2017. He also curated the exhibition In the long run, the territorial imperative will prevail in September 2017 in the Maribor gallery Epeka . In summer 2018 he curated the show “TRi / E / S / T / E, a few remarks on many identities of a city” in the Graz House of Architecture. In July 2019 he had a personal at the Minoriten cultural center in Graz. In December 2019 he curated the exhibition “shitet toka-Current Notes on Albania” in the Graz House of Architecture .

Publications (selection)

  • In the long run, the territorial imperative will prevail , exhibition catalog, Graz 2018, ISBN 978-3-9504374-1-6
  • decrement and jump if not zero , projects 2010–2017, Graz 2018, ISBN 978-3-9504374-2-3
  • Untitled | January 9, 2013, 3: 57–4: 02 pm , in: Lichtungen 136, 2013, pp. 118–128
  • 2003, the year continuity broke. Graz after the Capital of Culture , in: Kulturrisse 2/2004
  • Schengenblick: a project by Michael Petrowitsch , Pavelhaus, Graz 2003, ISBN 3-9501567-2-0
  • Make this country back to me ... / Naredite mi to dezelo spet ... / Make this country ... again: Catalog for the exhibition project as part of the Styrian Autumn 2001
  • With Christian Promitzer: "Wes bread you eat, the song you sing!" - Slovenes in Graz , in: Christian Stenner: Slovenian Styria - Displaced minority in Austria's southeast , To the customer of Southeast Europe Volume II / 23, Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 1997, pp. 167-234
  • With Christian Promitzer: Muslims, Serbs and Croats. Everyday life and culture of the former "Yugoslavs" in Graz , in: Christian Stenner (Ed.): Fremde Heimat Graz , Verlag Styria, Graz-Vienna-Cologne 1995, pp. 9-20
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  • shit toka. Current Notes on Albania. Exhibition catalog, Graz 2020. ISBN 978-3-9504374-3-0
  • TRI / E / S / T / E: Some remarks on many identities in a region / Alcune considerazioni sulle varie identià di un territorio , exhibition catalog, Graz 2018, ISBN 978-39504374-3-0
  • Bratstvo i Jedinstvo [brotherhood and unity]. Under the sign of deregulation , EPeKA Austria in cooperation with Haus der Architektur, Graz 2016, ISBN 978-3-9504374-0-9
  • With Elisabeth Fiedler (ed.): Borderline , documentation of the Borderline project in the context of Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012, 6. – 20. October 2012, Institute for Art in Public Space Styria, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 2013, ISBN 978-3-99028-271-7
  • With Susanne Weitlaner (ed.): Hudi glas iz gradca gre / Bad news comes from Graz. Graz and Styria in the folk song collection of Dr. Karel Štrekelj , Scientific Series of Pavel House 12, Graz 2009, ISBN 978-3-900181-30-7
  • With Susanne Weitlaner (ed.): Twenty years of Article VII-Kulturverein für Steiermark, 10 years of Pavelhaus = Dvaiset let Kulturnega Društva Člen 7 za Avstrijsko Štajersko, dest lel Pavlove Hiše , Laafeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-900181-32-1

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Petrowitsch ( Memento from June 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), online network culture in Graz
  2. ^ Christian Stenner: Slovenian Styria: displaced minority in Austria's southeast , Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 1997, p. 429
  3. ↑ Norbert Mappes-Niediek: Die Slovenenen-Macher , Falter 49/2005
  4. ↑ Benedikt Narodoslawsky: The forgotten Steirer , Der Standard , April 29, 2011
  5. ↑ Also in 2002: Culture without borders in the Pavel House , in: Korso (Magazin), 2/2002
  6. ^ New cultural tasks for Michael Petrowitsch , Kleine Zeitung , July 17, 2009
  7. ↑ Franz Niegelhell, Herwig Höller: Sponsored by ...? In: Falter , 37/2005
  8. ↑ Michael Petrowitsch: Linz will never become Graz! ( Memento from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Culture platform Upper Austria 116/2006
  9. ↑ Thomas Trenkler: Plea against Vienna-centredness , Der Standard , November 10, 2009
  10. ↑ EPeKA Austria. In: epeka.at. Retrieved August 10, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Avstrija med Miklavžem in parkljem . ( vecer.com [accessed December 1, 2016]).
  12. ^ Staff units of the management ( Memento from July 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Universalmuseum Joanneum
  13. ^ Christoph Pelzl: Museums and Migration , museum blog of the Universalmuseum Joanneum
  14. ^ Step across the border , Orf.at , January 18, 2012
  15. ↑ Borderline ( Memento from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), 6. – 20. October 2012 (Maribor), Universalmuseum Joanneum
  16. ↑ Michael Petrovich. Current Art in the Pumpkin 2013 ( Memento from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Pumpkin Culture Initiative
  17. ↑ Michael Petrovich. Photographic series ( Memento from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), kulturserver-graz.at
  18. ↑ Archive: Michael Petrovich. Museum resolutions ( Memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), kulturserver-graz.at
  19. ↑ steirischer herbst: Bratstvo i Jedinstvo | (Fraternity and unity) - Under the sign of deregulation. Archived from the original on July 10, 2016 ; Retrieved July 10, 2016 .
  20. ↑ nextroom - architecture on the net: House of Architecture Graz. In: www.hda-graz.at. Archived from the original on August 3, 2016 ; Retrieved August 3, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Michael Petrovich: Muzealske ločljivosti / Museale resolutions - EPEKA . In: EPEKA . November 8, 2016 ( epeka.si [accessed December 16, 2016]).
  22. ↑ Are you still alive? - Exhibition of the silenced . Culture newspaper "Achtzig" Graz, 03/2017
  23. ↑ Kulturzeitung 80: Galerija EPEKA: “In the long run the territorial imperative will prevail” | Kulturzeitung 80. Retrieved on November 6, 2017 (German).
  24. ↑ TRI / E / S / T / E - House of Architecture. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
  25. ↑ TRI / E / S / T / E - Architecture Summer 2018 . In: Summer of Architecture 2018 . ( architektursommer.at [accessed on August 20, 2018]).
  26. ↑ O odnosih med Gradcem in Trstom . July 31, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed August 20, 2018]).
  27. ^ PressReader.com - Connecting People Through News. Retrieved August 20, 2018 .
  28. ↑ PressReader.com - Newspapers from around the world. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .
  29. ↑ Grimaces of the real. In: kleinezeitung.at. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .
  30. ^ BauNetz: Notes on Albania - Exhibition in the House of Architecture in Graz. December 10, 2019, accessed January 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Petrovich, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian minority rights activist, artist and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH matchfield