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Analytical Beauty & Flower Sex
Press tour of both BLOOM exhibitions
22.04.2026
Image Credits
Press event
22.04.2026 11am - 12pm
Place
Neue Galerie Graz
Curators
Peter Peer | Kurt Zernig, Martina Pöltl und Gernot Friebes
Meeting point
Neue Galerie Graz/Natural History Museum
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As part of the annual theme BLOOM, Neue Galerie Graz and the Natural History Museum are opening two exhibitions simultaneously, both dedicated to the motif of the flower from artistic and scientific perspectives. Neue Galerie Graz presents previously unseen floral works from its collection – ranging from Biedermeier watercolours and Far Eastern woodblock prints to contemporary artistic positions. The focus lies on the connection between science and art: precise botanical studies meet the aesthetic power of one of the oldest motifs in art and cultural history. In the exhibition “Flower Sex,” the Natural History Museum explores the fascinating love life of plants. From the diversity of sexes and sophisticated pollination strategies to the genetic variety resulting from fertilisation, the show highlights how central sexuality is to biodiversity, ecosystem stability, and ultimately to our food supply.
Images "Analytical Beauty"
Vinzenz Kreuzer, Hahnenkamm
Sammlung Neue Galerie Graz, Foto: N. Lackner
Unbekannter Künstler Rhododendron – Rote Blüte mit Zweig Aus dem Bestand der Ständischen Zeichnungsakademie
Sammlung Neue Galerie Graz
Unbekannter Künstler Aus dem Bestand der Ständischen Zeichnungsakademie
Sammlung Neue Galerie Graz
Unbekannter Künstler Aus dem Bestand der Ständischen Zeichnungsakademie
Sammlung Neue Galerie Graz
Johann Knapp, Feld- und Alpenblumen in Glasschale, 1811
Sammlung Neue Galerie Graz
Images "Flower Sex"
Blüte und Hummel
Universalmuseum Joanneum
Enzian Gentiana
Universalmuseum Joanneum
Affen-Knabenkraut (Orchis simia)
Mannsschild Androsace
Universalmuseum Joanneum
BLOOM at Universalmuseum Joanneum and Kunsthaus Graz
Flowers and flowering plants have accompanied humans for centuries as symbols, useful plants, and cultural expressions across all borders. They represent beauty and healing, but also economic, scientific, and colonial developments.
Under the title BLOOM, the Universalmuseum Joanneum and the Kunsthaus Graz will present ten exhibitions in 2026 showing how flowers connect cultures, shape myths, and accompany human life from birth to death
