All programme items

Pedro Cabrita Reis

True Gardens #6 (Graz)

Pedro Cabrita Reis' works consist of commonplace surroundings, construction materials and architectural semantic appropriated from an existing reality and miraculously transformed into altars of an almost spiritual experience.

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.

The Neue Galerie Photographic Collection

The Neue Galerie Graz possesses some 2000 works of Austrian and international photographic art extending from 19th century beginnings to the present.

HIGH TIMES, HARD TIMES

New York Painting 1967-1975

The turbulent period of the New York art world in the late 1960s is captured in this exhibition with works by 35 New York artists.

UN/FAIR TRADE

The Art of Justice

The exhibition itself thus consists of a curated part – the real art works at Neue Galerie – and an uncurated part – the art works on the Net.

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.

HUBERT SCHMALIX

HUBERT SCHMALIX Figure and Color

With this solo exhibition the Neue Galerie Graz provides a broad perspective on the work of Hubert Schmalix who has continued his course as a painter consistently down to the present.

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.

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.

On the nature of the human

Genre Painting of the 19th and early 20th Centuries

From the collection of the Neue Galerie

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.

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.

From problem child to aged genious

Bazon Brock's pleasure march through theoretical territory

Brock works with the arts instead of nailing them to the wall. Brock's artistic thinking opens up vast perspectives.

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).