All programme items

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dariusz Kowalski

Interrogation Room

In Interrogation Room, Dariusz Kowalski investigates the extent to which spaces, visual mindset and power structures correspond.

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.