Welcome to the press page of Art in Public Space!

Here you will find information and press photos on the current projects

The mission of the Institute for Art in Public Space in Styria: to initiate and support art projects in both analogue and digital space. Accordingly, location-related works by regional and international artists are created, as are competitions and symposia in Graz and Styria. Art in the public space helps negotiate social questions from new perspectives. The most varied disciplines are thereby considered, including the visual and performing arts, literature, music, architectural approaches and inter-disciplinary art forms of the present. Works are also on show at several Universalmuseum Joanneum sites – such as in the Joanneum Quarter, for example.

 

Image Credits

Press releases

The Institute for Art in Public Space Styria memorates the so-called ‘death march’ of 1945 with a two-part memorial by Ramesch Daha in Eisenerz, Styria

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Projects and people photos

Elisabeth Fiedler, Head of the Institute for Art in Public Space

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

Lois Weinberger: Wild Cage – Ruderalgarten, 2013

Photo: KIÖR/I. Sur

Viktor Kröll, Opus Magnum an der Mauer des Grazer Gefängnis Karlau, 2023

Photo: Kröll

Tobias Rehberger: Woher der Wind weht, 2015

Photo: F.S. Kugi

Manfred Erjautz: Skulpturale Akupunktur, 2017

Photo: Gregor Titze

Alfredo Barsuglia: Mariainsel in Fürstenfeld, 2018

Photo: Alfredo Barsuglia

Atelier Van Lieshout: Drei Grazien, 2019

Photo: KiöR Filomeno Fusco

Bernhard Wolf, HABITAT, 2021

Photo: Bernhard Wolf

Barbara Edlinger Ehrenring/Neuaufstellung des Denkmals für Oktavia Aigner-Rollett, 2022

Marcus Auer/colourspace

About the Institute for Art in Public Space Styria

The pillars of the Institute for Art in Public Space are the initialization and best possible support of art projects that are realized outside of closed spaces and museums in real, but also in digital, virtual space. Permanent and temporary works by regional, national and international artists of proven quality are developed and realized here for the whole of Styria.

Art among the people

Questions such as "What is public space?" "Who owns public space?" "Who uses public space?" "What political, social, economic and ecological or other socially relevant issues are emerging?" are publicly negotiated in this context and made both vivid and accessible through themed art projects in urban and rural areas.

A wide variety of disciplines, such as visual and performing arts, literature, music, architectural approaches and interdisciplinary contemporary art forms are taken into account. With this in mind, the Institute for Art in Public Space Styria invites artists, initiatives and communities to approach us in order to realize contemporary projects together.