All programme items

Luminaire Design Made in Styria

In collaboration with Creative Industries Styria

The Kunsthaus continues its series in which contemporary artists and designers play a part in designing our furnishings, engaging at various levels with the functions, routines and needs of the institution. Our designs and arrangements ensure that, unconventionally, visitors encounter art and design from the moment they enter the Kunsthaus at ground-floor level.

Free Shop

SUPERFLEX

SUPERFLEX started the Free Shop project in Bremen in 2003. It can in principle be carried out in any shop (from a greengrocer’s through to a pharmacy or a snack bar). When they go to the cash desk, customers are given a receipt totalling 0, i.e. they don’t have to pay for their purchases.

Soft Interventions

Hannes Priesch with Herta Kramer-Priesch

Barrier tapes are used to section areas off from one another and to control access. Hannes Priesch and Herta Kramer-Priesch were commissioned to explore the topic of barriers, and in particular accessibility and inaccessibility both in the foyer and throughout the building.

C.R.E.A.M.

Cash rules everything around me

People visiting the Kunsthaus and local businesses have expressed the desire for an ATM for many years. But the new cashpoint is more than just a simple cash dispensing machine.

Ghost

In the Space

How do we want to shape our digital environment? The project invites us to discuss this question.

EPHEMERE

An intervention by Julia Bornefeld

Space05 is host to a glittering light object: EPHEMERE. This opulent chandelier takes as its theme the ambiguous properties between forms of functionality, as an ornamental object, as a light sculpture and also – embracing a thoroughly critical perspective on consumerism – acts as a site-specific intervention in “free” art space.

Roswitha Weingrill

How to fold a palm tree

But what is the alternative when nature unleashes its destructive forces in the dawn of global warming? Roswitha Weingrill creates a shelter in the Needle with her installation "How to fold a palm tree"—handily folded up without any creases so as to save space.

Site/Cite. Speaking in Tongues While Splitting One's Own

A project by Birke Gorm

Birke Gorm sees the Kunsthaus as an organic body, whose ‘lifelines’ lie in the visitors’ hallway. She intervenes in this place of movement. The handrail is thus suddenly interrupted and replaced by the bronze cast of a branch that fits in seamlessly with the standardised railings.

The Museum as a Gym

Fitness trail at the Kunsthaus Graz. A Project by Aldo Giannotti

The Project by Aldo Giannotti tests Kunsthaus Graz for its fitness capability and invites the audience to be active not – as usual – only with the mind, but also with the body.

Journey of Hope

Poster project by students of the FH Joanneum, Information Design

The posters on the refugee issue from FH JOANNEUM's Information Design degree programme are presented.

LIVING IN A DIZZYING WORLD

Art Competition and Survey

The aim of the competition is to increase artistic awareness for the condition of the world we live in and to propose artistic concepts and ideas on how to cope with the challenges to come.

Sonja Harter@Kunsthaus Graz

Lyricist Sonja Harter brings irony to Kunsthaus Graz: her poems touch, provoke and accompany both visitors and passersby.

The open garden

The Kunsthaus Garden is growing. You can see pink, blue, white and yellow flowers, green tomatoes and purple aubergines. Come and visit the garden, discover and taste the many plants, flowers and herbs, enjoy their scent – or simply sit down on a bench and rest your legs.

Landscape Brochure 2015

Cooperation with the Photography Academy Graz

Organised within the framework of the 1000 pictures of an exhibition competition, the project is a cooperation with Academy of Applied Photography Graz, led by Herman Herzele.

Sarah Bildstein

Der Bien

In cooperation with the Styrian Provincial Association for Bee-Keeping run by Maximilian Marek.

Gilbert Bretterbauer

Room Textile Function & Sensation

A textile installation in Space04 and iKU

RESANITA

A Room of One’s Own, 2013

Around the Kunsthaus Graz, the project by the artists' collective RESANITA grows together with the "suburban gardens" they have designed on Annenstraße and Südtirolerplatz.

Video Initiative Graz / Lukas Marxt

Third change of desiderata

As part of the exhibition "medien.kunst.sammeln. Perspectives of a collection"

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Simon Starling & Superflex

A cross-departmental, pan-Styrian, polyphonic project directed by Simon Starling & Superflex, with Super Eggs by Piet Hein.