All programme items

M Stadt

European Cityscapes

The autumn exhibition of Kunsthaus Graz M Stadt is dedicated to the topic of the “City” – as is the programme of steirischer herbst festival 2005. It offers visitors various approaches and possible perceptions of this complex issue.

Manfred Willmann

Werkblick

The exhibition gives a survey of what has grown into a multifaceted oeuvre in the course of more than thirty years.

Chikaku

Time and Memory in Japan

A comprehensive exhibition by Kunsthaus Graz and Camera Austria entitled "Chikaku. Time and Memory in Japan", reflecting the dynamic development of Japanese art during recent decades.

John Baldessari

Life's balance. Werke 84-04

“Why is something art, and why is something else not art?“ This is how John Baldessari (born in 1931), one of the most important contemporary American artists, has described his concept. His oeuvre, which combines photography with painting and art-historical reference with everyday life, is a study of the impossibility of grasping total truth or obtaining complete knowledge.

© Elfie Semotan

Elfie Semotan is regarded as a grande dame of Austrian fashion photography. The Image and Sound Archive of Landesmuseum Joanneum are now presenting the first major personal exhibition of the artist.

Michel Majerus

Installationen 92-02

In his short life (1967-2002) Michel Majerus had left behind a remarkable body of works. In doing so he rushed through a database of both popular culture and art history.

Now's the time

Montage audiovisuell

"Now's the time" presents video works of about twenty artists who act within the area of discrepancies of different iconographies of pop- and mass culture, lifestyle and the electronic media.

Moving Parts

Forms of the Kinetic

Art on the move – movement in art. From the 60s up to the present. An exhibition investigating the forms of expression of kinetics and machines in contemporary art has been conceived together with Museum Tinguely, Basel. In a comprehensive display it draws an arc from the 1960s up to the present and in this way makes the stages of the development of Kinetic Art traceable.

Peter Weibel

the open work 1964 - 1979

The exhibition focuses on the 15 years of Peter Weibel's early work from 1964 to 1979.

Ruth Vollmer & Gego

Thinking the Line

Playing on the relationship between hollow and solid, transparent and opaque, convex and concave, the works of Vollmer and Gego reconjugate the three-dimensional vocabulary of geometric abstraction.

Living in Motion

Design and architecture for flexible dwelling

Taken over from Vitra Design Museum, Living in Motion is dedicated to the subject of mobile dwelling showing the development stages of flexibility and mobility in design and architecture in a historical review and, at the same time, pointing at visions of the future.

Videodreams

Between the Cinematic and Theatralic

Spread conceptually and stylistically from Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet and Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty through the Brechtian epic theater and Verfremdungseffect to Lars von Trier’s Dogville and Robert Lepage’s Geometry of Miracles, this exhibition traces the archaeology of a back stage and a location set in a thorough investigation of poetics and politics of artificiality and illusion.

Hans Kupelwieser

Postmedial Sculptures

A combination of the extended use of materials and operation between form and function is the field of analysis in which Hans Kupelwieser moves.

Vera Lutter

Inside In

Vera Lutter: Inside In is the first museum exhibition of the artist’s photographic work to take place on such a large scale in Europe. It presents a vast overview: from the very early 1994 work depicting New York urban environments, to the unique explorations of industrial areas in the “Friedrichshafen” and “Frankfurt Airport” series of 1999 and 2001, through to the photographic studies of interior architecture in “Studios” and “Pepsi Cola” of 2000-2003.

Sol LeWitt

Wall

Sol LeWitt is an icon of contemporary art. In the sixties, with his spatial structures he contributed to sculpture in a way that changed the understanding of artistic work, and thus became one of the founders of both Minimal and Concept Art. The reduction of forms and contents of his work, as well as the principal critique of its material character and the process of creation, are in the tradition of constructivism of the 20th century. With impressive consistency he developed abstract sculpture into minimalist concepts.

Günter Brus

Work Orbit

This exhibition - held on the occasion of Günter Brus' 65th birthday - was organised by and shown first in the Albertina, Vienna. After its presentation in Graz it will be shown in Kunsthaus Zug and Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Bologna.

Einbildung

The Perception in Art

The subject of the opening exhibition is the phenomenon of perception, our knowledge about it and the conditions it is subject to. Everything begins with perception. Recent research suggests that cognitive processes and neural networks specifically determine and control our visual perceptions.

Phantom of Desire

Visions of Masochism in Art

In co-operation with Graz 2003 – Cultural Capital of Europe

M_ARS

ART AND WAR

Within the scope of Graz 2003 - Cultur Capital of Europe

Cosima von Bonin's

Fund-Oriented Equipment

Her work is characterised by spontaneity accompanied at the same time by the highest level of concentration and precision.