- awarding authority City of Graz Kunsthaus Graz AG, Griesgasse 11, A-8020 Graz
- financing Bund, Land, Stadt
- lessor Bank Austria Leasing GmbH, Opernring 21, A-1040 Vienna
- project management Kunsthaus Graz AG/Hochbauamt Stadt Graz (Ernst Pogöschnik, Andreas Blass, Josef Spindler)
- project supervision Hans Lechner GmbH, Wien (Hans Lechner, Sabine Liebenau)
- user Landesmuseum Joanneum GmbH, Raubergasse 10, A-8010 Graz
- artistic director Peter Pakesch until 09/2015, Barbara Steiner until 12/2021, Andreja Hribernik since 01/2023
- competition design Peter Cook, Colin Fournier with Niels Jonkhans, Mathis Osterhag, Marcos Cruz, Nicola Haines, Karim Hamza, Anja Leonhäuser, Jamie Norden
- design, overall management ARGE Kunsthaus
- designers spacelab cook/fournier (Peter Cook, Colin Fournier)
- partner architect Architektur Consult, Graz (Peyker, Domenig, Eisenköck)
- structural engineering Bollinger und Grohmann, Frankfurt/M
- team of architects Dietmar Ott (project manager), Niels Jonkhans (design architect), Gernot Stangl, Sigrid Brell-Cokcan (3D-engineering), Gerhard Eder (technical coordination), Werner Riedl (construction supervisor),
- architects Johanna Digruber, Daniela Fritz, Herbert Hazmuka, Hans Kaponig, Eduard Kölbl, Peter Löcker, Florian Lohberger, Ernst Plank, Herwig Stern, Bernd Priesching, Christian Probst,
- administration Cornelia Dohr, Susanne Dohr, Michaela Possanner, BIX
- electronic display skin Realities:United, Berlin
- technical services HL-Technik, TB Pickl, TB Köstenbauer und Sixl, light Kress und Adams, Cologne
- fire consultant Gerhard Düh, Vienna, building physics Dr. Pfeiler GmbH, Graz, soil mechanics Reinhard Pötscher, Graz
- surveying Vermessung Rinner
- traffic concept Kaufmann-Kriebernegg, Graz, museology Bogner Cultural Consulting, Vienna
- building research Markus Zechner, Graz
- construction coordination Robert Gobli
- competition April 2000
- start of construction July 12, 2001
- laying of the cornerstone February 28, 2002
- completion September 27, 2003 (opening event)
- net area 11,100 m2
- exhibition area 2,500 m2 (incl. 250 m2 event space, 280 m2 Camera Austria exhibition)
- gross floor area 13,100 m2 (incl. underground car park),
- underground parking spaces 146 passenger cars (user: Kastner und Öhler), number of acrylic panels on the outside 1068, size up to 2m x 3m, 20mm thick, each individually three-dimensionally warped, held by about 6,000 single simply supported hold points
- number of acrylic panels on the inside 185 (size up to 2m x 3m, 8mm thick, each individually three-dimensionally warped, held by about 1,500 single simply supported hold points
- number of nozzles 16 (one nozzle should provide for smoke evacuation in case of fire, one offers a view of the hallmark of Graz, the clock tower, 14 nozzles provide for daylight and artificial light sources on the upper exhibition space)
- weight of the bubble 3.9 million kg, thereof 225,000 kg steel structure.
Kunsthaus Graz
Lendkai 1
8020 Graz, Österreich
T +43-316/8017-9200
info@kunsthausgraz.at
Opening Hours
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Closed:
24th/25th December 2023