All programme items

Archive

2012

29.09. - 20.01.

Cittadellarte

Cittadellarte

Sharing Transformation

Throughout his career, Pistoletto placed the notion of participation at the heart of his work, considering it as the starting point for all artistic creation. The exhibition at the Kunsthaus Graz addresses this ideal of participatory work with art understood as an intervention.

2012

16.06. - 02.06.

media.art.collecting

media.art.collecting

Perspectives of a collection

The exhibition "medien.kunst.sammeln" focuses on the collecting activities of the Neue Galerie Graz in the field of media art, which can essentially be seen in the exhibition activities of the last 40 years.

2012

06.06. - 02.09.

Liu Xiaodong

Liu Xiaodong

The Process of Painting

The painter Liu Xiaodong is one of the most well-known representatives internationally of a generation of Chinese artists who grew up in a new society marked by rapid and frequent shifts in perspective.

2012

03.03. - 06.05.

Michael Kienzer

Michael Kienzer

Logic and Self-Will

For the first time, Kunsthaus Graz is showing a large solo exhibition by Kienzel and invites the Styrian artist to make Space01 his own and transform it into different constructions of visual perception.

2012

03.03. - 06.05.

Sofie Thorsen

Sofie Thorsen

Cut A-A‘

Cooperation with the Diagonale 2012. Sofie Thorsen's work is dedicated to the process of seeing, light and its role in different media.

2011

01.10. - 15.01.

Antje Majewski

Antje Majewski

The World of Gimel. How to Make Objects Talk

The German artist Antje Majewski embarks on a very personal search for the meanings of objects in museums and other collections.

2011

17.09. - 05.02.

Ai Weiwei

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. - 20.02.

Robot Dreams

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

09.10. - 09.01.

ATOROT

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

25.09. - 09.01.

Franz West

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

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

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. - 16.05.

Tatiana Trouvé

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.

2010

06.02. - 25.04.

Catch Me!

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.