All programme items
Archive
11.11. - 21.11.2010
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.
09.10.2010 - 20.02.2011
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.
09.10.2010 - 09.01.2011
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.
25.09.2010 - 09.01.2011
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"!
12.06. - 12.09.2010
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?
22.05. - 29.08.2010
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.
06.02. - 16.05.2010
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.
06.02. - 25.04.2010
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.
26.09.2009 - 10.01.2010
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.
26.09.2009 - 10.01.2010
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.
06.06. - 30.08.2009
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.
08.05. - 24.05.2009
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.
06.03. - 26.04.2009
Dariusz Kowalski
Interrogation Room
In Interrogation Room, Dariusz Kowalski investigates the extent to which spaces, visual mindset and power structures correspond.
31.01. - 17.05.2009
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.
15.11.2008 - 22.02.2009
Richard Kriesche
Capital + Code
The exhibition presents an interactive multimedia project, Aesthetics of Capital, conceived by the Austrian conceptual and media artist Richard Kriesche.
27.09.2008 - 11.01.2009
Life?
Biomorphic Forms in Sculpture
Can art help us to understand complex three-dimensional configurations of nature better? The exhibition Life? Biomorphic Forms in Sculpture investigates organic, biomorphic and anthropomorphic forms and offers an extensive exploration of the subject, with pictures of life that are rampant and threatening as well as cosy and friendly.
17.09. - 26.09.2008
Johanna Billing
Project for a Revolution
With Project for a Revolution, Johanna Billing questions the possibilities of social engagement, protest and revolt in our contemporary culture. Are revolutions even possible for today's youth? Under what conditions could radical social change happen in the past?
26.06. - 03.08.2008
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, Madrid
arquitectura concreta
With the exhibition arquitectura concreta the two successful Madrid architects, Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, provide an overview of their current projects, all characterized by fascinating spatial configurations and incisive formal idioms.
07.06. - 31.08.2008
Joe Colombo
Design and the Invention of the Future
Televisions that retract into the ceiling, pivoting walls with a built-in mini-bar, underground "nuclear cities" – the works of Italian designer Joe Colombo could have emerged from the set of a contemporary James Bond film. They exude the spirit of the shrill Sixties yet also impress with their functionality and striking forms.
06.03. - 26.10.2008
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Collection as Aleph
The exhibition Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph connects the structural (and symbolic) endlessness of the architecture of the Kunsthaus Graz with an attempt to navigate (mentally) the temporal and spatial levels of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection.