All programme items
Archive
2011
17.09. - 05.02.
Ai Weiwei
Interlacing
The first large-scale exhibition of Ai Weiwei’s photographic and video work—taken over from the Fotomuseum Winterthur—puts the spotlight on Ai Weiwei the communicator and indefatigable remembrancer, the documenting, analysing, interlacing and multichannel-communicating artist.
2011
11.06. - 04.09.
Measuring the World
Heterotopias and Knowledge Spaces in Art
How does contemporary art create order? How does it develop systematic structures? How does it create an organised image of the world?
2011
10.06. - 07.03.
Simon Starling & Superflex
e.g.
A cross-departmental, pan-Styrian, polyphonic project directed by Simon Starling & Superflex, with Super Eggs by Piet Hein designed in light of a mathematical formula by Gabriel Lamé set within a museum founded by Archduke Johann of Austria following an elliptical epiphany by Johannes Kepler.
2011
11.03. - 15.05.
Hollerer/Marte
“Do we need to have an accident?”
In this joint work by filmmaker Sabine Marte and sculptor Clemens Hollerer, film and space are united in an exciting synthesis that appeals to several senses simultaneously and is almost aesthetically intoxicating in its effect.
2011
05.02. - 15.05.
Anti/Form
Sculptures from the MUMOK Collection
The MUMOK is the first federal museum to bring its collection to Graz.
2011
29.01. - 27.02.
DESIGN IMPULSE
Bikes / Boats / Cars & Flying Machines
The exhibition "DESIGN IMPULSE" is a collaboration between the Joanneum University of Applied Science (FH JOANNEUM) and Creative Industries Styria | designforum Steiermark. Following the showing in Vienna, an expanded version is now being put in Graz in co-operation with the Kunsthaus Graz.
2010
11.11. - 21.11.
Mieke Bal
nothing is missing
The video installation by cultural theorist Mieke Bal shows women with an emigration background in an intimate narrative experiment that forces us to look these people in the face and listen to them. Even if their languages are foreign, we can still identify with them emotionally.
2010
09.10. - 09.01.
ATOROT
Are There Other Robots Out There?
For thousands of years, people have wondered whether there are other intelligent beings ‘out there’. The question of the other stems from man's reflection on himself, on his essence. ATOROT wants to look at itself from a higher perspective in search of the essence of the machine.
2010
09.10. - 20.02.
Robot Dreams
Coproduction with Museum Tinguely, Basel
The exhibition investigates forms of interaction between man and machine, the importance of behaviour on both sides and what intelligence is made of.
2010
25.09. - 09.01.
Franz West
Auto-Theatre, Cologne – Naples – Graz
Franz West is one of the most prominent artists in the field of space and sculpture. The exhibition Autotheater presents an overview of his multifaceted art that wants to be "used"!
2010
12.06. - 12.09.
Human Condition
Empathy and Emancipation in Precarious Times
Who are we? What are we made of? What is consider human? What allows us to encounter one another?
2010
22.05. - 29.08.
BLESS N°41
Retroperspective Home
Set up in 1997, the Berlin and Paris-based design and fashion duo BLESS is the creation of Ines Kaag and Désirée Heiss. The pair have been very visible in the progressive fashion world in recent years, working with other designers such as Martin Margiela, Markus Wente and Samuel de Goede.
2010
06.02. - 25.04.
Catch Me!
Grasping Speed
The group exhibition "Catch Me!" is about the phenomenon of acceleration – the personal experience of speed relative to time and space.
2010
06.02. - 16.05.
Tatiana Trouvé
Il Grande Ritratto
Kunsthaus Graz is pleased to announce a very first in Austria, the solo exhibition Il Grande Ritratto by one of the leading artists of the younger generation, Tatiana Trouvé.
2009
26.09. - 10.01.
Warhol Wool Newman
Painting Real
Kunsthaus Graz presents the exhibition "Warhol Wool Newman. Painting Real". Seen in retrospect, the oeuvre of Andy Warhol qualifies for "artist of the century" status. What Picasso represented for the first six decades of the 20th century, Warhol represents not only for the rest of that century but also for the 21st century to date.
2009
26.09. - 10.01.
Screening Real
Conner Lockhart Warhol
Screening Real. Conner Lockhart Warhol at the Kunsthaus Graz is the symmetrical twin of the exhibition Warhol Wool Newman. Painting Real. It features one of the most high-profile younger names in the American art film world, Sharon Lockhart. Her work is contrasted with the films of Bruce Conner and Andy Warhol, whose works were crucial in revolutionizing the way art handles the media.
2009
06.06. - 30.08.
Rock - Paper - Scissors
Pop Music as Subject of Visual Art
Rock – Paper – Scissors brings together artists whose methods and formulations use pop music’s body politics, knowledge industry and relationship with the world for their own purposes.
2009
08.05. - 24.05.
A Secret Understanding
Produced by Forma
A Secret Understanding is about the elective affinity between art and music. The exhibition brings together a group of rather personal and yet very differently presented films by various international media artists tackling familiar music titles in unfamiliar interpretations.
2009
06.03. - 26.04.
Dariusz Kowalski
Interrogation Room
In Interrogation Room, Dariusz Kowalski investigates the extent to which spaces, visual mindset and power structures correspond.
2009
31.01. - 17.05.
Diana Thater
gorillagorillagorilla
At the beginning of the bicentenary of Darwin's birth, the Kunsthaus Graz is exhibiting the large-format video installations of Californian artist Diana Thater, which analyse the complexity of nature and its relationship with mankind.