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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.
30.03.2025
Changing Childhood. From the Straw Doll to the Smartphone
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The special exhibition at the Rosegger Museum invites visitors to take a journey through time.
28.03. - 29.03.2025
Diagonale '25: Simona Obholzer
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In 2025 the winner of the ‘Innovative Cinema’ award - Simona Obholzer - is once again preparing the trailer for the Diagonale ʼ25 as well as an exhibition at Kunsthaus Graz.
26.03.2025
Freedom Was an Episode (tbc)
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With Freedom Was an Episode (tbc), the BRUSEUM is taking stock of current surveillance and the restriction of freedom
21.03.2025
Maruša Sagadin. Speak More Truth, Eat More Fruit
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Maruša Sagadin's site-specific sculptural intervention is both an invitation and a reference to the artist's roots, which combine elements of street art, pop, comic, and hip-hop culture. The work breaks with established codes with relish and sensitively exposes social mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in urban space.