The opening of the exhibition Celina Eceiza: Ofrenda [Celina Eceiza: Offering] in the city of Graz, Austria, marks an important step onto the international scene for this Argentinian artist. The exhibition was produced in its entirety by the Museo Moderno, where it was on display between September 2024 and March 2025. Now, on 24 October 2025, the HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, in cooperation with the Museo Moderno, will open Ofrenda, the first solo exhibition in a museum in Europe of the work of Celina Eceiza (Tandil, 1988). The exhibition is curated by Sandro Droschl, director of the HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, in collaboration with Agustina Vizcarra, head of Exhibitions at the Museo Moderno.
Ofrenda transforms the architecture of the museum into a living, breathing body that changes state as you pass from one room to the next. The walls, ceilings and floors are draped with thousands of metres of hand-dyed fabrics, stitched together using that collective and timeless act of sewing, to form a single surface, soft and sensitive to the slightest movement.
A metabolic force drives the growth of Eceiza’s work, which involves paintings, drawings, and sculptures – both tiny and colossal in scale – as laborious as they are elementary. In them, the artist combines handcrafted textile techniques with processes such as patchwork, found object collages and, more recently, chalk pastels, giving her images a new sense of fluidity.
Her compositions are filled with bodies undergoing transformations and depictions of flowers and fruits in the best still life tradition. However, they also weave together references to 20th century art movements and include several layers of cultural history, from Greco-Roman antiquity to the hippy movement of the 1960s.
Curated by: Jimena Ferreiro
Production manager: Iván Rösler
Production: Julieta Potenze
Special thanks to: Florencia Ferrari Milano, Román Ramírez, Melina Chaldú, Aurea Chiarle Meissinger, Rocío Englender, Germán Gáspari, Soledad Manrique Goldsack, Paula Pellejero, Alejandro Rossetti, Germán Sandoval, Juan Valenti, Amparo Viñales and Nicolás Zúñiga
The exhibition at the HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark presents two of the spaces created specifically for the original project curated by Jimena Ferreiro and held at the Museo Moderno in 2024.
There is a yellow room, bathed in light, that brings together reinterpretations of works from the Museo Moderno’s collection; these are the result of Eceiza’s research into the paintings held by the museum. Based on her research, the artist created new textile pieces presenting collages of works by Alberto Heredia, Juan del Prete, Noemí Gerstein, Yente, Nicolás García Uriburu, and other artists. In a gesture similar to fan art, she selected her favourite pieces and refashioned them into posters to showcase her own reading of Argentinian modern art history.
Then there is the red room, filled with gigantic chalk on canvas drawings and hand-dyed rugs. The compositions are highly symbolic, depicting different beings and bodies undergoing transformations. In this space, this painterly ‘skin’ with its metaphorical wrinkles and folds feels organic; it is resilient yet delicate. In this way, she constructs a ‘soft’ museum that calls into question the exhibition practices of modern art.
You can visit Celina Eceiza: Ofrenda at the HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, from 25 October 2025 to 18 January 2026.
A co-production of the HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark and the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
Curated by: Sandro Droschl, director of the HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, in collaboration with Agustina Vizcarra, head of Exhibitions at the Museo Moderno.
