All programme items
Archive
2009
04.04. - 31.10.
Feathers make a bird
of songbirds, scavengers and dive-bombers
In 2009 Trautenfels Castle dedicates its special exhibition entitled Feathers Make a Bird (of songbirds, scavengers and dive –bombers) to the magical world of birds.
2009
01.04. - 31.10.
Citizen, farmer, cook
Women's everyday life at the time of Archduke Johann
Referring to the time in which Archduke Johann lived and worked and the life of his wife Anna Plochl, different themes are presented in various selected houses. The themes focus on the everyday lives of women in the town, farmers' wives and maidservants.
2009
06.03. - 26.04.
Dariusz Kowalski
Interrogation Room
In Interrogation Room, Dariusz Kowalski investigates the extent to which spaces, visual mindset and power structures correspond.
2009
28.02. - 13.04.
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.
2009
31.01. - 17.05.
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.
2008
20.11. - 18.01.
2008
15.11. - 22.02.
Richard Kriesche
Capital + Code
The exhibition presents an interactive multimedia project, Aesthetics of Capital, conceived by the Austrian conceptual and media artist Richard Kriesche.
2008
27.09. - 11.01.
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.
2008
17.09. - 26.09.
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?
2008
26.06. - 03.08.
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.
2008
14.06. - 31.08.
GIANNI COLOMBO
Ambienti
The exhibitions in Graz took place at a time when the artist was carrying out his most radical ideas.
2008
14.06. - 25.01.
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.
2008
07.06. - 31.08.
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.
2008
01.04. - 31.10.
Served up!
About food culture in the farmhouse
In Austria, there are two fundamentally different fireplaces: The oven and the cooker. In eastern Austria, the stove was at the centre of the home and life, in western Austria it was the hearth. Between these two landscapes is the intermediate stage of the smokehouse. Here, the oven and the hearth were combined, and both fireplaces could be used alternately.
2008
15.03. - 18.05.
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.
2008
06.03. - 26.10.
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.
2008
19.01. - 03.02.
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.
2007
14.12. - 25.05.
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.
2007
14.12. - 24.02.
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.