All programme items

Prometheus Unbound

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

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.

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.

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.

‘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.

SEXperts

Speedy Bees and Wonderful Pikes

Sex plays an important role not just for humans; it also acts as the engine of evolution for animals, plants and fungi.

Selected 2017

In case of "Designmonats Graz"

The Fauth photographs

A photo studio in west Styria

The exhibition tells this remarkable story by means of selected photographs and documents.

Battle and Passion

Japanese Colour Woodcuts

The Neue Galerie Graz owns some 300 coloured woodcuts, mainly by Japanese artists, as well as several works of Chinese painters of the period from the end of the 18th to the 19th century.

Yoshio Nakajima

Out of the Picture

This retrospective is dedicated to his early performative works from the 1950s in Japan up to the 1970s in Europe.

God and the World

What do we believe in?

BRUSEUM Collection Exhibition

The changing selection of collection items in the BRUSEUM’s first room shows the continuity of motives and working processes of his artistic output that spans more than five decades.

Shoemaker, Pecher, Ameisler

Almost forgotten trades and professions of the past

David Reumueller

Johnny Silver – Superposition

David Reumüller – artist and musician – shows here a performative installation dealing with central questions about the forming of identity and star cults, using the fictive biography of a real-life fan and actor, Johnny Silver, aka Johannes Silberschneider.

Erwin Wurm

Football-sized lump of clay on light blue car roof

The exhibition by Erwin Wurm in the Kunsthaus Graz takes as its starting point the open architectural structure of the Kunsthaus.

Evamaria Schaller

"Don't turn around, don't turn around..."

Opening: 10.02.2017, 7pm

Dizziness

Navigating the Unknown

Every day new reports of crisis set the world whirling, whether real or fictional, which can trigger artistic endeavour.