All programme items

Haegue Yang: VIP’s Union

– Phase II, Surrender

VIP’s Union enters its second phase in February 2018: the furniture which over the last nine months has been available for use throughout the Kunsthaus is now changing its status and will be on show in a spatial setting in Space02 designed by Haegue Yang.

Peter Rosegger. Forest Home and a Changing World

This exhibit presents one of the most famous Styrian personalities: as a mountain farmer and author, between Waldheimat and Europe, characterized by patriotism, monarchy and nationalism, open to reformatory movements, as a commentator and admonisher on social issues.

Dejan Marković

Shapes of Things Before My Eyes

Opening: 26.01.2018, 7pm studio

Shirin Neshat

Frauen in Gesellschaft

The review exhibition in the Neue Galerie Graz brings together important works from all Shirin Neshat’s creative periods.

Kunstraum Steiermark 2017

This Neue Galerie Graz exhibition shows the varied artistic positions with works created in 2017.

Styrian Nightscape

Photo expedition to Styria by night

For most people night is the time of peace and quiet. Contrasting with this, night work and night life are part of urban leisure culture. In this photo-historical, documentary project, we set out to uncover ‘the land at night’.

Artothek Styria 2017

Opening: 02.11.2017, 7pm

Victor Hugo - Günter Brus

Opening: 05.10.2017, 7pm Like William Blake, August Strindberg or Günter Brus, Victor Hugo is one of those rare double talents who have achieved works of enduring value in two artistic metiers.

fiber and liquids

A digital exhibition in the "Darknet"

The digital exhibition fiber and liquids assembles numerous artistic positions that explore the complex relationship between marginalised spaces and strategic retreats, between global interconnectedness and its neo-colonial gaps, big data and informal knowledge systems, digital transactions and their local and physical contextualisation.

play!

Translocal: Museum as Toolbox

Opening: 27.09.2017, 7pm. This experimental show develops a ‘talking museum’, based on a concept devised jointly by five museums.

Graz Architecture

Rationalists, Aesthetes, Gut Instinct Architects, Democrats, Mediacrats

To actively shape society is the common claim of the Graz architects, whose works can be seen here.

Prometheus Unbound

Opening: 23.09.2017, 11 am The steirischer herbst festival presents its key autumn exhibition for 2017 in the Neue Galerie Graz.

Up into the Unknown

Peter Cook, Colin Fournier and the Kunsthaus

The exhibition Up into the Unknown traces the creation of the Kunsthaus Graz, exploring thereby the relationship between visionary ideas and their realisation.

Veronika Eberhart

9 is 1 and 10 is none

At the heart of her presentation is a 22-minute film entitled 9 is 1 and 10 is none, in which she picks up on ideas from the Italian-American philosopher Silvia Federici’s pioneering book Caliban and the Witch.

In Bed

Episodes of a Refuge

What do people do in bed? This object is far more than just a piece of furniture.

Koki Tanaka

Provisional Studies (Working Title)

What and how can we achieve together? In Tanaka’s first solo exhibition in Austria, the Kunsthaus Graz shows projects that involve collectivity and the potential for joint action.

Haegue Yang

VIP’s Union - Phase I & II

Opening Phase II: 14.02.2018, 7pm. The Korean artist Haegue Yang asked well-known or famous personalities – VIPs – from Graz and Styria to loan a chair or table of their choice. Together these pieces of furniture produce a portrait of the province and city.

‘One Hammer Blow…’

500 years of Protestant faith in Styria

Our exhibition – key for Styria – is dedicated to the reverberations through the ages of his hammer blows, in this anniversary year, 2017.

Susanna Flock

Forming Storming Norming Performing

The studio of the Neue Galerie served from the 1990s to 2010 as a platform for young Austrian artists who were not yet fully established in the art business after graduation, finding themselves at the outset of their career.

Who are you?

Two centuries of portraits

This exhibition spans a period from the 19th century through the interwar period and the portents of ‘mass culture’ in Pop Art, up to current portraits, for which new media are also now employed.