Günter Brus

Press release

27.05.2026

Günter Brus Das Bleiben im Rahmen des Unmöglichen, 1989

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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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The exhibition Staying Within the Framework of the Impossible puts a renewed focus on the BRUSEUM’s collection, while also exploring the socio-political conditions in which Günter Brus’s work was created, exhibited and collected by institutions such as the Neue Galerie Graz. The precarious circumstances in which Brus lived and worked are reflected both in the artistic material and in the spaces that were available to him, whether this was for staging his actions or exhibiting his works. Through its display, the exhibition at the BRUSEUM seeks to illustrate these precarious and complex conditions. At the same time, it highlights the responsibility and effort required for a museum to collect, preserve, research and exhibit works in the face of the budgetary uncertainties of today. The show traces Brus’s oeuvre over the decades, although the works are not arranged chronologically to follow well-known lines of development; instead, they are grouped according to motif and theme, so revealing his ongoing engagement with particular artistic, existential and socio-political questions.

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