All programme items

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.

Richard Kriesche

Capital + Code

The exhibition presents an interactive multimedia project, Aesthetics of Capital, conceived by the Austrian conceptual and media artist Richard Kriesche.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Hanspeter Hofmann

Bonheur automatique

In the exhibition Bonheur automatique, the Swiss artist Hanspeter Hofmann looks for linear relationships between chemical inputs and mental states and explores the question of how quasi-mechanical interfaces between people and the world can be used creatively.

Volksgarten

Politics of Belonging

How long does one have to live in a place before qualifying as a local? What are the signs of belonging and what aspects of integration are identifiable? These are the questions addressed by "Volksgarten. The Politics of Belonging", a co-production with steirischer herbst.

Model Martin Kippenberger

Utopia for Everyone

Provoking, difficult, and egotistical – Martin Kippenberger left many people with the distinct impression of an enfant terrible. Yet his multiple artistic output was more than just egocentricity – it also conveyed messages for humanity and a moral dimension.

China Welcomes You...

Desires, Struggles, New Identities

The exhibition "China Welcomes You ..." at Kunsthaus Graz presents a selection of around fifteen artists, setting out to explore new identities that present China from very different perspectives, confirming some stereotypes and refuting others.

Werner Reiterer

Eye Sucks World

Should art make us laugh? Styrian artist Werner Reiterer certainly challenges us to ponder on the sense and nonsenses of our world, but the noir humour and irreverent handling of reality in his approach mean that our first reaction is to laugh out loud. What we make of it afterwards is the long finish, as it were.

Cerith Wyn Evans

Bubble Peddler

British artist of Welsh origin, Cerith Wyn Evans produces works which escape definition: chandeliers and fireworks that "speak", plants that are able to "generate" light, installations that theatricalise our experience. On the edge of magic, they bring in an uncanniness which radically alter our perception and challenges our vision.

Kenneth Anger

Eaux d'Artifice

Kunsthaus Graz is presenting Eaux d'Artifice, an early masterpiece by one of the key figures in the American avantgarde cinema and queer movement. Here, the unique staging of light and the supended spectacle create a link to the following exhibition of Cerith Wyn Evans.

Narratives

Just like the first page of a book, upon entering an exhibition space, a door opens up into a new world that wants to transport our visitors away.

Protections

This is not an exhibition

Protections is confronting head-on the fact that our modern societies are undergoing a far-reaching of redefinition values process – under the pressure of individualism, neo-liberalism, information transfer and global markets. It is posing elemental questions on contemporary art and concepts of perception – going beyond the promise of a successful modern life.

intuitive spaces

visible memory of a friendly alien

It was in a project that the students of the major "Media- and Interactive Design" (Degree Course Informationdesign at the University of applied sciences Joanneum Graz) have developed ways to visualise the archive materials of the Kunsthaus Graz.

Inventory

Works from the Herbert collection

The Anton and Annick Herbert Collection, which has recently attracted particular attention thanks to a major review in the New York Times, is a comprehensive overview of important positions in Conceptual and Minimal Art as well as Arte Povera.

Gods in Exile

Salvador Dalí, Albert Oehlen et al.

In spring 2006, the Kunsthaus Graz is showing an exhibition on the metamorphosis of the artist's image and its mythology.

Two or Three or Something

Maria Lassnig, Liz Larner

The specific formal vocabulary of painting and sculpture is explored in an exhibition on display at the Kunsthaus Graz from 4 February to 7 May 2006 on the basis of works by one of the most important living Austrian painters, Maria Lassnig (1919), and the Californian sculptor Liz Larner (1960).