ARTS ⇆ CRAFTS

Between tradition, discourse and technologies

In the last few years, interest on the part of contemporary artists in crafting processes, in experimenting with material and techniques has grown noticeably. more ...

Oliver Ressler

What Is Democracy?

In the run-up to the national elections, the Kunsthaus Graz is showing the thought-provoking multi-channel video installation "What Is Democracy?" (2007-2009) by the Austrian artist Oliver Ressler, which impressed the audience at the last Documenta and will now be shown at Kunsthaus Graz for the first time in Styria. more ...

Cat Tree: Alive Inside the Crystal

A Project of Oliver Klimpel

Alive Inside the Crystal is a two-part exhibition about the power and aberrations of utopias and the 20th century avant-gardes' reverberating in our time. more ...

Connected. Peter Kogler with…

George Antheil with Friedrich Kiesler with Hedy Lamarr with Fernand Léger with museum in progress with Otto Neurath with Charlotte Perriand with Franz Pomassl with Winfried Ritsch with Franz West ...

The exhibition brings together works from the dawn of the century with contemporary works. more ...

Cat-Tree: Laura Wagner

Obelisks

Parallel to the joint exhibition Earth Series with Johann Lurf, Laura Wagner shows her multi-part concrete work Obelisks in the foyer of Kunsthaus Graz. She is the first artist to operate with the new exhibition furniture piece, pedestal and intervention space: A Cat-Tree for the Arts by Oliver Klimpel. more ...

Johann Lurf

Earth Series with Laura Wagner and Cavalcade

In cooperation with Diagonale’19 more ...

Jun Yang

The Artist, the Work and the Exhibition

The solo exhibition by Jun Yang is dedicated to fundamental questions of artistic work: what significance do original works, unique pieces, series and reproductions have in art today? How is artistic practice defined when exchanged with others? more ...

Congo Stars

The exhibition Congo Stars shows the wealth, special features and lines of tradition of locally oriented, popular painting from the 1960s to the present day. more ...

Faith Love Hope

800 Years of the Graz-Seckau Diocese

The exhibition seeks out possible connections between temporal and secular zones, it explores forms of artistic engagement with images and values forged by Christianity. more ...

Haegue Yang: VIP’s Union

– Phase II, Surrender

VIP’s Union enters its second phase in February 2018: the furniture which over the last nine months has been available for use throughout the Kunsthaus is now changing its status and will be on show in a spatial setting in Space02 designed by Haegue Yang. more ...

fiber and liquids

A digital exhibition in the "Darknet"

The digital exhibition fiber and liquids assembles numerous artistic positions that explore the complex relationship between marginalised spaces and strategic retreats, between global interconnectedness and its neo-colonial gaps, big data and informal knowledge systems, digital transactions and their local and physical contextualisation. more ...

play!

Translocal: Museum as Toolbox

Opening: 27.09.2017, 7pm.
This experimental show develops a ‘talking museum’, based on a concept devised jointly by five museums. more ...

Up into the Unknown

Peter Cook, Colin Fournier and the Kunsthaus

The exhibition Up into the Unknown traces the creation of the Kunsthaus Graz, exploring thereby the relationship between visionary ideas and their realisation. more ...

Graz Architecture

Rationalists, Aesthetes, Gut Instinct Architects, Democrats, Mediacrats

To actively shape society is the common claim of the Graz architects, whose works can be seen here. more ...

Haegue Yang

VIP’s Union - Phase I & II

Opening Phase II: 14.02.2018, 7pm.
The Korean artist Haegue Yang asked well-known or famous personalities – VIPs – from Graz and Styria to loan a chair or table of their choice. Together these pieces of furniture produce a portrait of the province and city. more ...

Koki Tanaka

Provisional Studies (Working Title)

What and how can we achieve together? In Tanaka’s first solo exhibition in Austria, the Kunsthaus Graz shows projects that involve collectivity and the potential for joint action. more ...

Erwin Wurm

Football-sized lump of clay on light blue car roof

The exhibition by Erwin Wurm in the Kunsthaus Graz takes as its starting point the open architectural structure of the Kunsthaus. more ...

Dizziness

Navigating the Unknown

Every day new reports of crisis set the world whirling, whether real or fictional, which can trigger artistic endeavour. more ...

The Logic of the Angels

Llullophone

Installation and Soundcomposition. Based on a mediaeval logic machine that can even “prove” God, musikprotokoll builds an interactive sound installation at Kunsthaus. Vokalensemble NOVA deploys the Llullophone in order to marry very old with very new music. more ...

Body Luggage

Migration of Gestures

This year's steirischer herbst exhibition imagines the migration of cultural signs across borders, of body language as the signs we carry on our backs, even if it is the only luggage we are able to carry. more ...

Kneaded Knowledge

The Language of Ceramics

Space01. With our sights more closely fixed on recent Asian art and with the continued opening up of artistic practice, we are increasingly confronted with this material. The exhibition is designed to throw light on these positions. more ...

Josef Schützenhöfer

71

Josef Schützenhöfer’s latest work 71 is a colossal image that is due to move into the ground floor of Kunsthaus Graz. more ...

Stories from the Edge 2

A road trip to the identities of the Adriatic coast

Osmiza 2. "Open House" Space05. The project investigates tourist resorts along the coast of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Slovenia and the Istrian Croatian coast during the low season. more ...

Stories from the Edge 1

A road trip to the identities of the Adriatic coast

Osmiza 1. "Open House" Space05. The project investigates tourist resorts along the coast of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Slovenia and the Istrian Croatian coast during the low season. more ...

Bittersweet Transformation

Alina Szapocznikow, Kateřina Vincourová and Camille Henrot

Works by three female artists from three generations, from sculpture through to film, come together in a dialogue about the body as the origin of all that is perceptible. more ...

Yaruya

The sculptor Samson Ogiamien between African tradition and European reality

"Open House" series in Space05. Graz-based artist Samson Ogiamien’s work is influenced as much by the culture of his African homeland as by European modernity. He sees his art as an element of communication within globalisation. more ...

RESANITA

Wilde Frau

The project consists of artistic research in the Central European region and can be interpreted as a feminist intervention and reaction to Charles Fréger’s photographic series Wilder Mann. more ...

The Painter’s Cabinet

Terry Winters’ Dialogue with Nature

For the project in Space02, Terry Winters devotes himself to the intersection of art and science in the museum. In an installation arrangement of his own works and exhibits from the natural science collections of the Universalmuseum Joanneum. more ...

Constantin Luser

Music Tames the Beast

The exhibition Constantin Luser. Music Tames the Beast is a comprehensive solo show of the Austrian drawer and artist (*1976 in Graz, lives and works in Vienna). more ...

Sasha Pirker I Lotte Schreiber

FILM

Admission free! "Open House": In the exhibition FILM at Kunsthaus Graz, Sasha Pirker and Lotte Schreiber set motion pictures and framed ones into a dialogue about the relations between reality and fiction, body and architecture, political space and private sphere, minimalist aesthetics and the side effects of brutalism. more ...