All programme items

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.

The decorations of Archduke Johann

Orders and medals

Featured in the exhibition are a representative selection of medals and some splendid orders conferred on our founder.

Rome the Myth

The classical foundations of the Baroque state Schloss Eggenberg

Paintings, graphic works, sculptures and coins trace the survival of the classical/imperial tradition in the outlook of Renaissance and Baroque princes.

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.

exemplary

Erzherzog Johann

Schloss Stainz Hunting Museum's contribution to this exhibition is a wide-ranging portrait of this exceptional 19th-century visionary.

Feathers make a bird

of songbirds, scavengers and dive-bombers

Dariusz Kowalski

Interrogation Room

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

Confluences – Differences I

Günter Brus - Max Klinger

Osvaldo Romberg

„Theater of Transparency“; The Video-Installations of Oswald Romberg

Three videos which the artist produced during the last few years are in the center of the event, together with the protagonists of the videos – dolls or puppets made of transparent acrylic.

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.

Oskar Stössel (1879–1964)

Portraitist der Gesellschaft

Hofgalerie der Neuen Galerie Graz

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.

GIANNI COLOMBO

Ambienti

The exhibitions in Graz took place at a time when the artist was carrying out his most radical ideas.

Viaggio in Italia

Italian Art 1960 - 1990

Since the 1960ies Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum supports, presents and collects contemporary art, on a national as well as an international level.

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.

MICHAEL SCHUSTER

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

Following on from his artistic positioning in the solo show at MUMOK Vienna in 1993, this exhibition of 80 works by Michael Schuster presents a review of his creative achievement over the past 15 years.

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.