All programme points

Promotion Prize of the Province of Styria for Contemporary Fine Arts 2023

Johann Rausch

Searching Myself

Opening: 19.10.2023, 7pm Johann Rausch has been continuously producing art on an international level for 40 years and yet is completely unknown.

Ridiculously Yours!

Art, Awkwardness and Enthusiasm

One of the most important attitudes or feelings underlying modern and contemporary art is an enthusiastic silliness that does not shy away from the embarrassing, the unreasonably silly. In modernism since the 19th century and in the classical avant-gardes of the early 20th century, there is a very specific dialectic at work: on the one hand, there are bold innovations, radical negation, and aesthetic dogmas; on the other hand, there is a certain kind of laughter that forms the basis for this exhibition project.

Ebru Kurbak

Who Owns the Moon?

Ebru Kurbak is an artist and researcher born in Izmir, Turkey and based in Vienna, Austria. Her practice explores the entanglements between art, technology, culture, and politics, with a focus on uncovering hidden values and ideologies in science and technology research.

Sophia Gatzkan and Moritz Führer

Everyone can lace on space-age shoes

The exhibition focuses on the body, which is subjected to constant "improvement" through social conventions and is shaped, trained, operated on and technically enhanced.

Knitted Anatomy

Katharina Sabernig

In cooperation with Markt der Zukunft und Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum

The Alps in View

The Landscape Painter Franz Steinfeld. Insert: Hubert Schmalix

The Alps are very much in the media and public consciousness at present, mainly on account of two major themes: for our leisure-oriented society, they represent a place of yearning for sports activities, recuperation and enjoyment of nature.

ANA

Her Life With the Viennese Actionists

Opening: 30.03.2023, 7 pm Anna Brus, wife of Günter Brus, and her role in Viennese Actionism become the main topic.

Gudrun Krebitz

Nighttime at the Well

Gudrun Krebitz uses drawings and real images to animate unique films characterised by a deep suggestive power.

Alek Kawka

Monument

In the photographic intervention Monument, Alek Kawka deals with the motif of the tree as a natural monument.

Walter Köstenbauer

Critteries

Opening: 16.03.2023, 7 pm, free admission! Intervention by the Neue Galerie Graz in the permanent exhibition rooms of the Natural History Museum with works by Walter Köstenbauer. Using collaged, historical teaching aids, the artist questions the form and importance of conveying the knowledge of natural and art history.

Art Space Styria 2022

The exhibition presents the works of Styrian participants in the various studio programmes, as well as foreign scholarships bestowed by the Cultural Department of the Regional Government of Styria in 2021/22.

Artothek Styria 2022

The Artothek Styria offers art enthusiasts the chance to rent selected originals from the Neue Galerie Graz collection for their private use. The Artothek will be undertaken for the sixth time in 2021. Some 20 works are available to be loaned, and can be viewed and reserved in an exhibition running during the first weekend of December. After the exhibition is over, those persons who have reserved artworks may take them home for their effect to unfold in the renter’s private space. In this way, art in a museum directly reaches the public.

Günter Brus. Disclosure

A Retrospective from the Collection of the THP Private Foundation

With the showing of the THP Private Foundation Collection, the BRUSEUM is not only delighted to be able to display this unique private collection, but also to present a retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work for the first time in ten years.

A War in the Distance

At the core of steirischer herbst ’22 is an exhibition at Neue Galerie Graz that juxtaposes historical works with contemporary artists’ projects.

Anna Vasof

The Weight of Tears and Other Looping Stories

"The Weight of Tears and Other Looping Stories" at the Neue Galerie Graz studio presents an extensive selection of the cinematic works of architect and media artist Anna Vasof.

A War in the Distance. Prologue

An Embattled Ukraine in Video Art and Film

In a special exhibition at Neue Galerie Graz, steirischer herbst presents historical and contemporary video art and films.

Axl Leskoschek

Brazil

Axl Leskoschek (Graz 1889–1976 Vienna) was one of the most important representatives of the Austrian avant-garde during the interwar period.

Paul Neagu

Katharina Sabernig

Knitted Anatomy

Katharina Sabernig is a doctor and anthropologist who has worked with anatomical illustrations, visualised medicine and Tibetan medical terminology. Inspired by the diversity of anatomical representations and the ethical issues associated with this art, she began knitting anatomical objects in 2015. In her current project, she depicts the topography of internal organs and their vascular supply, taking the size of an adult person as a starting point.