All programme items

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).

Toast

Jessica Hausner

In collaboration with the Diagonale the Kunsthaus Graz presents a film by the Austrian film-maker Jessica Hausner. A film like a puzzle picture - where is the borderline between lust and addiction? A subversive critique of the iconography of the perception of women in Western society.

Paju Book City

Paju Book City is being built on an area on the northern bank of the Han River in Korea and is designed as a self-sufficient print media metropolis.

M Stadt

European Cityscapes

The autumn exhibition of Kunsthaus Graz M Stadt is dedicated to the topic of the “City” – as is the programme of steirischer herbst festival 2005. It offers visitors various approaches and possible perceptions of this complex issue.

Chikaku

Time and Memory in Japan

A comprehensive exhibition by Kunsthaus Graz and Camera Austria entitled "Chikaku. Time and Memory in Japan", reflecting the dynamic development of Japanese art during recent decades.

John Baldessari

Life's balance. Werke 84-04

“Why is something art, and why is something else not art?“ This is how John Baldessari (born in 1931), one of the most important contemporary American artists, has described his concept. His oeuvre, which combines photography with painting and art-historical reference with everyday life, is a study of the impossibility of grasping total truth or obtaining complete knowledge.

Michel Majerus

Installationen 92-02

In his short life (1967-2002) Michel Majerus had left behind a remarkable body of works. In doing so he rushed through a database of both popular culture and art history.

Now's the time

Montage audiovisuell

"Now's the time" presents video works of about twenty artists who act within the area of discrepancies of different iconographies of pop- and mass culture, lifestyle and the electronic media.

Moving Parts

Forms of the Kinetic

Art on the move – movement in art. From the 60s up to the present. An exhibition investigating the forms of expression of kinetics and machines in contemporary art has been conceived together with Museum Tinguely, Basel. In a comprehensive display it draws an arc from the 1960s up to the present and in this way makes the stages of the development of Kinetic Art traceable.

Living in Motion

Design and architecture for flexible dwelling

Taken over from Vitra Design Museum, Living in Motion is dedicated to the subject of mobile dwelling showing the development stages of flexibility and mobility in design and architecture in a historical review and, at the same time, pointing at visions of the future.

Videodreams

Between the Cinematic and Theatralic

Spread conceptually and stylistically from Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet and Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty through the Brechtian epic theater and Verfremdungseffect to Lars von Trier’s Dogville and Robert Lepage’s Geometry of Miracles, this exhibition traces the archaeology of a back stage and a location set in a thorough investigation of poetics and politics of artificiality and illusion.

Sol LeWitt

Wall

Sol LeWitt is an icon of contemporary art. In the sixties, with his spatial structures he contributed to sculpture in a way that changed the understanding of artistic work, and thus became one of the founders of both Minimal and Concept Art. The reduction of forms and contents of his work, as well as the principal critique of its material character and the process of creation, are in the tradition of constructivism of the 20th century. With impressive consistency he developed abstract sculpture into minimalist concepts.

Vera Lutter

Inside In

Vera Lutter: Inside In is the first museum exhibition of the artist’s photographic work to take place on such a large scale in Europe. It presents a vast overview: from the very early 1994 work depicting New York urban environments, to the unique explorations of industrial areas in the “Friedrichshafen” and “Frankfurt Airport” series of 1999 and 2001, through to the photographic studies of interior architecture in “Studios” and “Pepsi Cola” of 2000-2003.

Einbildung

The Perception in Art

The subject of the opening exhibition is the phenomenon of perception, our knowledge about it and the conditions it is subject to. Everything begins with perception. Recent research suggests that cognitive processes and neural networks specifically determine and control our visual perceptions.