Late summer celebration

Shuttle bus:
1:15 pm departure: Kunsthaus Graz
5:00 pm return trip, departure: Austrian Sculpture Park
Reservation is kindly requested.

Mario Terzic’s Arche aus lebenden Bäumen, 1998/2010–2011 (arch made of living trees) is the very first sculpture directly connected with nature. Sixty trees will gradually grow into one another to finally form an enormous ship thus designating art as a futuristic vessel .
On this occasion we are celebrating the forthcoming of the sculpture’s first part, which is a wooden body made of frames, and would like to invite you to witness the arch’s genesis. Welcome address:
Peter Pakesch, Managing director of the Universalmuseum Joanneum
Introduction:
Peter Weibel, Chief curator of the Austrian Sculpture Park
Inauguration:
LRin Bettina Vollath, Styria’s cultural consultant

Programme:
3:00 pm and 4:00 pm: guided tours through the Park
2:30 pm–4:30 pm: workshop for children
Music: SWAY

How to come by car
From Graz:
On the A9 motorway towards Slovenia, exit at Schachenwald