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Up into the Unknown

Peter Cook, Colin Fournier and the Kunsthaus

23.09.2017-25.03.2018

Opening: 23.09.2017, 2 pm

Produced by Kunsthaus Graz
In cooperation with steirischer herbst
In collaboration with Künstlerhaus – Halle für Kunst & Medien, Neue Galerie Graz, Haus der Architektur, Technische Universität Graz

Curated by: Barbara Steiner with Katia Huemer

Venue: Space01

The Kunsthaus Cake

About the exhibition

The exhibition Up into the Unknown traces the creation of the Kunsthaus Graz, exploring thereby the relationship between visionary ideas and their realisation. A preset time frame, technical limitations, tight budgets, functional demands, and also elements of chance all changed the conception. Nevertheless, the building still speaks of utopian-visionary moments, which even today can enable the imagination to take flight.

As commissioned works, contemporary artists tackle issues of change:

what has become of certain ideas and the attitudes connected with them?

How have social demands shifted?

What has remained?

With works by Archigram, Bollinger + Grohmann, Peter Cook, Colin Fournier, Jessica Hausner, Niels Jonkhans, Mischa Kuball, Vera Lutter, Anna Meyer, realities:united, Isa Rosenberger, Gernot Stangl and Arthur Zalewski

Display: Niels Jonkhans, Anna Lena von Helldorff (buero total)

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Impressions

The architects of Kunsthaus Graz, Colin Fournier and Peter Cook,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/S. Hoffmann

[Translate to English:] Gruppenfoto bei der Eröffnung,

[Translate to English:] v.l.n.r.: Christopher Drexler (Kulturlandesrat), Veronica Kaup-Hasler (Intendantin des steirischen herbst), Barbara Steiner (Leiterin des Kunsthauses Graz), Günter Riegler (Kulturstadtrat), die Kunsthaus-Architekten Sir Peter Cook und Colin Fournier und Wolfgang Muchitsch (Joanneums-Direktor), Foto: Universalmuseum Joanneum/S. Hoffmann

"Up into the Unknow", exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

"Up into the Unknow", exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

"Up into the Unknow", exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

"Up into the Unknow", exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

"Up into the Unknow", exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

"Up into the Unknow", exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

"Up into the Unknow", exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

"Up into the Unknow", exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

"Up into the Unknow", exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

"Up into the Unknow", exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

View Lendkai, competition period, April 2000,

drawing by Peter Cook

Anna Meyer, Haus Tier, 2017

Fotos: Anna Meyer © Bildrecht, Wien, 2017

Isa Rosenberger, The Sky is Glass, 2017

(Videostill)

3D-model of the nozzle, ARGE kunsthaus,

rendering by Gernot Stangl

Competition period, April 2000,

sketch by Peter Cook

Underneath the bubble, competition period, April 2000,

sketch by Peter Cook

Model made of latex on the idea of the organic skin and the nozzles, early competition period, February 2000,

model by Marcos Cruz

Sketches on the idea of the movable skin, early competition period, February 2000,

sketch by Niels Jonkhans

Visualization of the steel construction, summer 2003,

rendering by Gernot Stangl

Animation on the simulation software of the BIX façade (screenshots), planning stage of BIX, July 2003,

animation by realities:united

"Up into the Unknow", exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

„Up into the Unknown“, Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

„Up into the Unknown“, Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

„Up into the Unknown“, Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

„Up into the Unknown“, Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

„Up into the Unknown“, Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

„Up into the Unknown“, Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

„Up into the Unknown“, Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

„Up into the Unknown“, Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

„Up into the Unknown“, Exhibition view,

Competition model, Kunsthaus Graz, Modellbau Kropf, Graz, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

„Up into the Unknown“, Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

„Up into the Unknown“, Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

„Up into the Unknown“, Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

„Up into the Unknown“, Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

„Up into the Unknown“, Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

„Up into the Unknown“, Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

„Up into the Unknown“, Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

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5th April 2021
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16th February 2021
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