Fundraising campaign

For the first time, Schallfeld is organising a fundraising campaign for old and new supporters of our ensemble and contemporary art.

Now more than ever, it is crucial to strengthen cohesion and mutual support within the independent Styrian and Austrian cultural scene. That is why we have engaged Marleen Leitner and Michael Zitnik from studio ASYNCHROME for this initiative—long-time friends and a renowned artist duo (Schaumbad – Freies Atelierhaus Graz, steirischer herbst ’22, Kulturjahr 2020, Bruseum, Kunsthaus Graz, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Vienna Biennale, and many more). This year, they will represent Styria as an artistic position at the World Exhibition in Osaka and present a solo exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Tokyo.

As an artistic thank you that is also available to our friends and supporting members from afar, we will send one of fifty numbered original prints (printed on high-quality, handmade Japanese paper, 29.7 x 21.0 cm) of a work by studio ASYNCHROME, which was created especially for our 2025 season motto ‘Korpus’, for donations of € 200 or more.
The prints are only available as part of this action.

Our supporters will receive an original copy of the print (shipping costs will be covered by Schallfeld) and a pass for our concerts in the 2025 season. This ‘pilot project’ aims to establish a tradition of creating exclusive artworks for Schallfeld’s supporting members every year.

MORE INFO AND PRE-ORDERS

* Pre-orders are now possible! We cordially invite you to the next concert ‘(Aus der Nähe)’ on 17 March at 20:00 in the Florentinersaal, Graz, where the original work will be on display. Studio ASYNCHROME is looking forward to meeting the audience during the interval and after the concert. Information on the transfer of donations and the official confirmation of the deductibility of donations will soon be available on our website and in our newsletter.

Thank you for your support and see you soon!

ASYNCHROME is a transdisciplinary experiment and was founded by Marleen Leitner and Michael Zitnik. Their main focus is on the search for artistic crosses and urbanistic traces. The forms of expression range from drawing, painting, photography, installation to animation. This interdisciplinary work enables a multiple field of view with regard to the desired processing fields. In this way, plural realities and realities collide with one another, repel each other and become superimposed. Asynchrome (e) – a term derived from the Greek-Neo-Latin, describes this multilayer in the form of a multicolor print, in which each color is assigned its own printing plate. In this way, the actual color radiation / mixture comes into being only through the superimpositions of the individual planes – each of its own importance, but all with the potential for transdisciplinary mixing.

The chromaticity of the name is derived primarily from the Greek chroma color, but in general the color saturation is designated. This value defines the quality of the color effect and differentiates the distance between colored and black / white stimuli of the eye. Thus, the relative chromaticity of the chromaticity relative to the reference white is described. This results in a beautiful thought, which is not formulated in shining neon letters but rather understands the world in gray tones with the ability to color reflections.

ASYNCHROME runs asynchronously – precisely in these unequal paths, the real knowledge emerges in the interfaces. Asynchrome sees art as the supreme authority, as a goal and aspiration. The Utopia is an opportunity and a tool to dream of this goal. „The utopia is dead, long live the utopia.“

We dream of an architecture that is not merely a monument of money, but has its own will. We dream of the feeling of entasis, and not of the dictum of functionality. We dream of an art which does not claim to be eternity, but thereby becomes timeless. We dream of the reference, but also of the referendum. We dream because in the dream we can change the reality a little bit.