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Cittadellarte

Sharing Transformation

Throughout his career, Pistoletto placed the notion of participation at the heart of his work, considering it as the starting point for all artistic creation. The exhibition at the Kunsthaus Graz addresses this ideal of participatory work with art understood as an intervention.

media.art.collecting

Perspectives of a collection

The exhibition "medien.kunst.sammeln" focuses on the collecting activities of the Neue Galerie Graz in the field of media art, which can essentially be seen in the exhibition activities of the last 40 years.

Artists in Residence 2012

Dissolution included

Thirty-three students of the Technical University of Graz (Institute for Contemporary Art) are featured as Artists in Residence 2012 at the Austrian Sculpture Park.

Liu Xiaodong

The Process of Painting

The painter Liu Xiaodong is one of the most well-known representatives internationally of a generation of Chinese artists who grew up in a new society marked by rapid and frequent shifts in perspective.

Michelangelo Pistoletto

Self-Portraits, Mirrors, Minus-Objects

Bringing art into society and connecting it to everyday life lie at the centre of Michelangelo Pistoletto’s work.

Act together – effect together

Collaborations of Guenter Brus with friends since 1970

BRUSEUM Since the early 1970s, Günther Brus has cooperated with other artists.

Rose, mint, ditchweed

The knowledge and benefits of farm gardens

Michael Kienzer

Logic and Self-Will

For the first time, Kunsthaus Graz is showing a large solo exhibition by Kienzel and invites the Styrian artist to make Space01 his own and transform it into different constructions of visual perception.

Sofie Thorsen

Cut A-A‘

Cooperation with the Diagonale 2012. Sofie Thorsen's work is dedicated to the process of seeing, light and its role in different media.

TimeTimeTime…

On the pace of life and the art of dawdling

This exhibition is an invitation to think about the way we use time and to track down islands of autonomy that stand above the stream of time.   

A Land of Images

One multimedia history of Styria

The Multimedia Collections present the visual memory of Styria as a ‘land of images’ and reflect the image as a medium of seemingly invisible and subtle resistance as well.  

Hans Hollein

BRUSEUM

A museum for Günter Brus

As a permanent base to display the work of world-famous Styrian artist Günter Brus, the BRUSEUM offers a panoramic survey of its collection, which is steadily being expanded in every direction.

Modernism: Suicide of Art?

Reflections of the Collection of the Neue Galerie Graz

The Neue Galerie in Graz reflects this fundamental change from representation to reality with works in the collection from 1800 to the present day.

Antje Majewski

The World of Gimel. How to Make Objects Talk

The German artist Antje Majewski embarks on a very personal search for the meanings of objects in museums and other collections.

Ai Weiwei

Interlacing

The first large-scale exhibition of Ai Weiwei’s photographic and video work—taken over from the Fotomuseum Winterthur—puts the spotlight on Ai Weiwei the communicator and indefatigable remembrancer, the documenting, analysing, interlacing and multichannel-communicating artist.

Measuring the World

Heterotopias and Knowledge Spaces in Art

How does contemporary art create order? How does it develop systematic structures? How does it create an organised image of the world?

Simon Starling & Superflex

e.g.

A cross-departmental, pan-Styrian, polyphonic project directed by Simon Starling & Superflex, with Super Eggs by Piet Hein designed in light of a mathematical formula by Gabriel Lamé set within a museum founded by Archduke Johann of Austria following an elliptical epiphany by Johannes Kepler.

Diversity and the Usual Stuff

On the culture of eating

Wood times