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1981

Beginnings

Emil Breisach, former managing director of the ORF Styrian provincial studios, sustained the notion that contemporary sculptures and viewers need to be granted a lieu of inter-action in public space and not only in museums. In 1981 he began to show works on the grounds of the studio which were the starting point for the idea of creating an adequate placement for Austrian sculpture in correspondence with international art.

Eine Skulptur des Künstlers Gerhard Moswitzer vor dem ORF-Landesstudio Steiermark in Graz

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Building phase 1999

International Garden Festival

Als im Jahr 2000 der prominente Schweizer Landschaftsarchitekt Dieter Kienast in Unterpremstätten, sieben Kilometer südlich von Graz, ein sieben Hektar großes Areal für die Internationale Gartenschau schuf, bestätigte sich dies als idealer Ort für einen großzügig angelegten Skulpturenpark.

Der Wall des Skulpturenparks in der Bauphase ohne Begrünung

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2000

Internationale Gartenschau

The ideal site for a generously laid-out sculpture park was found in the 7 hectare covering park designed by Dieter Kienast, the well-known landscape architect from Switzerland in 2000 for the international garden show held in Unterpremstätten 7 km South of Graz.

Besucher*innen auf dem Areal des heutigen Skulpturenparks während der Internationalen Gartenschau im Jahr 2000.

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2001/2003

Österreichischer Skulpturenpark Privatstiftung

The Austrian Sculpture Park Foundation was founded in cooperation with the PORR AG and the Province of Styria; its Board of Trustees consisting of Nikolaus Breisach, Hermann Eisenköck and Ralph Schilcher. It served as a basis for the concept of an international sculpture park co-initiated by Christa Steinle, head of the Neue Galerie Graz, and devised by Peter Weibel which in 2003 could be presented to the public.

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seit 2007

Universalmuseum Joanneum

To protect the park which to date contains 80 permanent sculptures and to put it in a well founded scientific context as well as place it in a wide spread art-culture environment and at the same time make it accessible to an even broader public, Kurt Flecker, Styria's cultural consultant, in accordance with the Private Foundation facilitated the sculpture park's takeover by the Landesmuseum Joanneum, known as Universalmuseum Joanneum today, under the manangement of Elisabeth Fiedler.

Weitwikliges Panoramabild mit Blick auf die Skulptur "Die Erdkugel als Koffer" und "Sole d'acciaio".

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