Günter Brus

Press release

27.05.2026

Das Bleiben im Rahmen des Unmöglichen, 1989 Graphit, Ölkreide und Tusche auf Papier, 14-teilig, je 37 x 27 cm

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Duration

29.05. - 26.10.2026

Opening

28.05.2026 7pm

Press event

27.05.2026 11am - 12pm

Place of the press event

Neue Galerie Graz, BRUSEUM, BRUSEUM

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With the official opening of the Joanneumsviertel on November 26, 2011, the BRUSEUM’s collection was presented to the public in its entirety for the first and last time. Fifteen years later, the museum is once again offering a glimpse into its diverse collection and is organizing a retrospective exhibition from its own holdings dedicated to the artist, who passed away in February 2024.

In light of increasingly tight budgets, the focus is not only on the quality of the museum’s own collection but also specifically on the additions to the collection in recent years through donations and permanent loans. Necessary revitalization measures in the museum spaces are integrated into the aesthetics of the exhibition displays and address the ongoing work on and with the museum’s own collection. At the same time, the exhibition also sheds light on the conditions under which the artist exhibited during the first decades of his career, when museum exhibition spaces and white cubes were the exception.

Exhibition views

Diana Brus (Tochter des Künstlers) und Roman Grabner (Kurator und Leiter BRUSEUM)

Foto: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

Roman Grabner (Kurator und Leiter BRUSEUM), Diana Brus (Tochter des Künstlers), Peter Peer (Leiter der Neuen Galerie Graz)

Foto: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

Peter Peer (Leiter Neue Galerie Graz), Josef Schrammel (kaufmännischer Direktor Universalmuseum Joanneum), Diana Brus (Tochter des Künstlers), Roman Grabenr (Kurator und Leiter BRUSEUM), Marko Mele (wissenschaftlicher Direktor Universalmuseum Joanneum)

Foto: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek