“Previously best known as a theater festival, steirischer herbst has appointed its first non-German-speaking director and is now redefining itself as an international art event.”
The New York Times
“If the herbst team remains true to its ideas of repoliticization, opening up to the outside world and good art mediation, we can expect a lot of exciting things in the coming years.”
Kronen Zeitung
“In Graz, albeit on a smaller scale, steirischer herbst might just be succeeding in something that Kassel, Berlin or Athens were not yet ready for.”
Süddeutsche Zeitung
“Today, with the western world witnessing a re-legitimation of extremist politics, the festival has taken on a new sense of urgency.”
The Sydney Morning Herald
“These works first engage with right-wing populism and its formulations, which is rampant not only in Europe, going on to then oppose it.”
Camera Austria International
“With her Volksfronten program, Degot has demonstrated her keen sense of the need to discuss current political polarizations and and hereby seemingly garnered the festival a new audience.“
Kleine Zeitung
“In these present times of uncertainty and rising fascism, this edition of steirischer herbst didn’t attempt to comfort viewers, but rather proposed double-edged expressions of catharsis for how to deal with the past—to commemorate or to discharge it?—when it seems doomed to repeat itself.”
Artforum
“The artist and the festival's director, Ekaterina Degot, have been heavily criticized for Withdrawing Hitler. For Degot, this is a sign that the program of this year's edition is completely tapping into the current Zeitgeist.”
Der Spiegel
“The reunion with the Slovenian conceptual totalitarians from Laibach was worth overcoming every meter of altitude.”
Der Standard
“steirischer herbst thus entangles the audience in its own contradictions and poses the question of how comfortable we have already made ourselves.”
Falter
S postavitvijo umetnosti v različne kontekste festival, s katerim diha vse mesto, nenehno vabi obiskovalca k razmisleku.
Delo
“The program has been streamlined with a narrower focus on commissions, the festival's habitus is much more edgy and political than it has been.“
Wiener Zeitung
“steirischer herbst conquers the entire city.“
Österreich