All programme items

Where Art Might Happen

The Early Years of CalArts

The exhibition with the title "Where Art Might Happen. The Early Years of CalArts" opens up a multi-perspectival view of the college: trends existing in parallel that came from Concept Art, feminism and Fluxus, as well as the school’s radical pedagogical concepts, were unified for the first time.

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.

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.

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.

Johann Lurf

Earth Series with Laura Wagner and Cavalcade

Once again, in 2019, the Kunsthaus Graz is collaborating with the Diagonale, showing an exhibition of Johann Lurf in the Space03. In the previous year he was awarded the Diagonale Prize for Innovative Cinema of the City of Graz, and is designing the trailer for Diagonale’19. Lurf’s works always mean filmic exploration – exploration that will now continue at the Diagonale’19, too.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dizziness

Navigating the Unknown

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

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.

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.