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19.03.2026
30% Dandelion and Hybrid Pleasures
Press tour through both BLOOM exhibitions
The Kunsthaus Graz marks the start of this year's annual theme “BLOOM” with two exhibitions: “30% Dandelion” brings together about 35 contemporary artistic positions dedicated to the flower and its direct connection to humans, understanding it as a symbol of radical adaptation and resistance, linking ecological crises with the hope for a symbiotic, more just coexistence. “Hybrid Pleasures” is the first comprehensive retrospective of British artist Helen Chadwick in over two decades. Her radical, sensual works enter into dialogue with current sculptures by Liesl Raff and open up new perspectives on the body, materiality, and the motif of flowering as an expression of the hybrid and the living. A press tour of both exhibitions will take place on Wednesday, March 19, at 11 a.m.
13.03.2026
Michael Gülzow. The Gate to Unreality
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In Michael Gülzow's video installation, which is built around a new three-channel video work, as well as in the trailer he designed for Diagonale '26, the protagonists can not only travel through time, but also effortlessly switch between newscasts, science fiction scenery, and ‘alternative facts’. Through the clever montage of found footage and self-filmed material, the artist dissolves the boundaries between reality and fiction and engages them in a multi-layered and humorous dialogue. He critically examines the tension between contemporary image production (with its rapidly developing technological possibilities) and the media construction of truth (with its frightening strategies of seduction and deception). Through the obvious use of editing and montage in glitch and retro aesthetics, he creates no illusions, but rather reveals the mechanisms of media manipulation and deconstructs post-factual narratives through the self-empowerment of the protagonists.
18.02.2026
Cemra. Ziamliačka
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Ziamliačka – Belarusian for "a woman who comes from the same soil" – is Cemra's latest project, performance, installation and labour of love all at once. It began with the illegal transport of 225 kg of Belarusian soil to Poland, where its scent was extracted in order to preserve the memory of an unreachable homeland in the form of an olfactory archive. Smells are powerful memory triggers because they are directly connected to the limbic system. This enables them to instantly conjure up seemingly forgotten memories. The process of extracting the scent took Cemra several months and involved several stages. Layers of soil on Vaseline were changed three times every ten days, then covered with alcohol for another ten days and left to evaporate for 24 hours. Fat and ethanol preserved the scent of what had been taken from the artist. Thus, the extract in the installation remains visible in a hand-blown flacon but not directly smellable. The soil that Cemra presents in her installation in the Needle of Kunsthaus Graz, piled in a minimalist glass cube, is more than just matter; it is a political body that crosses borders, preserves a sense of home and refuses erasure by turning private loss into a shared archive for all exiles. At the same time, it represents the energy that Cemra lost during her years in exile, energy that must be replenished. "True power flows not only from those who stand beside you, but from the ground beneath your feet." At the opening of her exhibition at Kunsthaus Graz, Cemra closes the circle that began with an act of activism with a poetic, melancholic reinterpretation of a Belarussion lullaby.
26.11.2025
Promotion Prize of the Province of Styria for Contemporary Visual Art & Art Space Styria
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Styrian participants in the studio programmes and foreign scholarships present their work from the 2023/24 scholarship period.
05.11.2025
Camuflajes. Zechner & Serrano
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The Camuflajes project is a dedicated collaboration between a visual artist and a writer.
17.09.2025
Unseen Futures to Come. Fall
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How do we live in these times when we are confronted with apocalyptic scenarios ranging from ecological crisis to the threat of mass destruction daily, and how do we make sense of it?
27.06.2025
Romans on the Road. Travel Routes of Roman Pottery
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Window into the Roman Era: World-travelled Roman Ceramics from Flavia Solva
26.06.2025
Milica Tomić. On Love Afterwards
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The survey exhibition offers insight into the practice of artist Milica Tomić.
25.04.2025
SHOWING STYRIA 2025
Press conference at Schloss Eggenberg
Join us in celebrating the 400th anniversary of Schloss Eggenberg. The major anniversary exhibition combines unique works of art and princely rooms with new media and music.
02.04.2025
But there are unspeakable things – The painter Wolfgang Hollegha
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When Wolfgang Hollegha came to New York in 1959 at the invitation of Clement Greenberg, the first storms of ‘Abstract Expressionism’, which was equated in Europe with ‘Art Informel’, were ebbing away.