All programme items

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.

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.

GIANNI COLOMBO

Ambienti

The exhibitions in Graz took place at a time when the artist was carrying out his most radical ideas.

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.

Served up!

About food culture in the farmhouse

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.