All programme items

The Mystery of Wood

From Roofing to Mountain Biking

This special exhibition shows the multifarious uses of wood from basic material to finishing, from the simple tool to the completed artwork.

Superstition – Super-knowledge

A World Not Random

The Folk Life Museum owns an extensive collection of objects from the 18th to the early 20th century, which are described as superstitious, folkloristic or simply as magical cures.

André Thomkins

Eternal Network

BRUSEUM. This is the first presentation in the BRUSEUM that has not taken as its theme aspects of the life and work of Günter Brus, but rather is devoted exclusively to one of his closely associated peers.

James Benning

Decoding Fear

With James Benning, the Kunsthaus Graz continues its exploration of moving images in space.

Rays of Light

Film and Cinema in Styria 1896-1945

In the competition with and against time, this exhibition would like to develop visitors’ sensibility for the one medium that has shaped the culture of the 20th century like no other.

Idea and Form

Mathematics and the Beauty of Science

Running parallel to the exhibition "Love of Maths" in the Natural History Museum, this show in the Neue Galerie Graz demonstrates the connections between mathematics and art.

Projektraum [Project Space]

Michaela Grill. My Restless Heart

On the occasion of the annual cooperation with the Diagonale [Graz’s film festival], the artist conceived an audiovisual dream machine together with musician Andreas Berger. Opening: 20.02.2014, 7 p.m.

El Lissitzky – Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

Utopia and Reality

The exhibition in the Kunsthaus Graz is a version of the 2013 exhibition shown in the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, specially adapted to our museum.

Gekämmt und gesteckt

Die Kulturhistorische Sammlung zeigt erstmals eine Auswahl der interessantesten Haar- und Steckkämme. Der überwiegende Teil stammt aus dem 18. und 19. Jahrhundert.

Ulrike Königshofer

The See-Through Machine

Ulrike Königshofer interprets the project space as an oversized raree-show, addressing its enclosed nature. Opening: 12.12.2013, 7 p.m.

Ulrike Königshofer

The See-Through Machine

Ulrike Königshofer interprets the project space as an oversized raree-show, addressing its enclosed nature. Opening: 12.12.2013, 7 p.m.

Promotion Prize of the Province of Styria

for Contemporary Fine Arts 2013

The Promotion Prize goes to Georg Oberhumer, the work stipends and art aquisition prizes to Michael Gumhold, Angelika Loderer, Daniel Hafner and Gregor Schmoll. Congratulations!

Project Room

Karl Salzmann: Rotation/Notation

Opening: 28.09.2013, 8pm

Projektraum

Karl Salzmann: Rotation/Notation

Opening: 28.09.2013, 8pm

Romuald Hazoumè

Beninese Solidarity with Endangered Westerners

Complex migration conditions demand a complex understanding of post-colonialism on the part of Europe’s multicultural societies. The lasting impact on the global situation from colonialism, decolonialisation and neo-colonialist tendencies brings to mind in various ways a kind of ‘liaison dangereuse’.

Culture:City

Cultural Buildings from Bilbao to Zeche Zollverein

Heimo Zobernig

The Kunsthaus Graz mounts a solo exhibition of the internationally renowned Austrian artist Heimo Zobernig.

Mushrooms: Nature’s networkers

Special exhibition

The special exhibition at the Natural History Museum offers an insight into the magical world of mushrooms with fantastic fungal models by Lilo and Klaus Wechsler, on display here for the very first time in Austria.

Wilhelm Thöny

Under the Spell of Modernism

With this comprehensive exhibition and the catalogue raisonné that accompanies it, a long-held wish on the part of the Neue Galerie Graz and the public is finally realised, enabling an Austrian pioneer of Modernism once again to be brought closer to a wider audience.

Line, Light and Shade

Master Drawings of Baroque

In cooperation with the Salzburg Museum/Department of Baroque Art, which as the former Salzburger Barockmuseum/Rossacher Collection had exhibited the Rembrandt etchings in autumn 2011, drawings of Austrian and South German Baroque artists are to be presented together.