G.R.A.M. (Martin Behr and Guenther Holler-Schuster)

Austrian

Martin Behr is a trained art historian and wears the multiple hats of a newspaper journalist, editor, curator, artist, and member of the G.R.A.M. artist collective. Behr lives in Graz. Günther Holler-Schuster is an artist and art historian as well as collection curator and deputy department head of the Neue Galerie am Universalmuseum Joanneum. He studied art history and folklore at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz. In 1987 he was a founding member of the artists' group G.R.A.M., which he now runs together with Martin Behr. In his conceptual art, Holler-Schuster is concerned with the selective perception of images in photography, film and video, which he likes to examine for their historical references and current cross-references.