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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.

Vuk Cosic

History of Art for the Intelligence Community

"History of Art for the Intelligence Community" is technically described as a front end for Carnivore, the project that mimics FBI's net surveillance software.

In search of Balkania

In Search of Balkania lifts a long overdue ban on the Balkans as a site of intellectual endeavor and cultural desire. Conceived from the outset as a curatorial operation and artistic experience against expectations, this exhibition confronts a subject full of contradictions, to which everyone brings baggage they can't easily drop.

HERBERT BRANDL

A Survey (Part 2)

Part 2

Rudi Molacek

Giverny Graz

The latest works developed for his large personal exhibition at the Neue Galerie offer a thrilling insight into his astounding ability to experiment with various materials as technical carrier media.

COLLECTOR'S CHOICE

International Art since 1950 - Collection Ploil, a selection

Ever since Jonathan Richardson's praise for the science of the connoisseur in his 1719 paper, “An Essay on the Whole Art of Criticism as it Relates to Painting and an Argument in Behalf of the Science of the Connoisseur”, the genuine collector has been identified with the title of connoisseur. As such the private collector is of central importance in the development of art.

HERBERT BRANDL

Chromophobia - A general survey (part 1)

part 1

Erwin Wurm

Fat Survival

In its first phase, the development of sculpture in the 20 century was characterised by detachment from the human body. In Brancusi's work, the human head becomes increasingly geometric and ultimately egg-shaped. This process was called abstraction, meaning abstraction from human dimensions.

Isaac Julien

Filmretrospektive

Neue Galerie Graz at Filmzentrum im Rechbauerkino

Im Buchstabenfeld

Up until now, our image of literature has been closely tied up with the book, the page, as the medium itself. In the electronic age literature gives us the option of presenting numeric-alphabetic character stings in other media, such as the computer screen, without paper or any link with the book.

Martin Gostner

ALL I SEE I COVER

'dicke Aura Heimat' (Thick Aura Home) and 'Niederschlag von Volksreden' (Fallout of Speechifications) are the works on show in the studio and stairwell of the Neue Galerie.

The Magic Hour

The Convergence of Art and Las Vegas

Curator: Alex Farquharson, London Opening: Sat, September 22nd 2001, 7pm Opening Performance: Sermon of Rev. Ethan Acres, Las Vegas Is Las Vegas, capital of the western entertainment industry, also set to become the capital of art? At this historic moment, art is losing the visionary power to...

From Waldmüller to Schiele

Masterpieces of the Neue Galerie in Schloss Eggenberg

The 19th and early 20th century collection at the Neue Galerie in Graz is one of the most important of its kind in Austria both in terms of quality and quantity. From May 2001 onwards we have the great opportunity to exhibit this special collection in the palace of Schloss Eggenberg.

Moderne in dunkler Zeit

Rudi Gernreich

"Fashion will go out of fashion"

The exhibition, the first comprehensive retrospective of the life and work of Rudi Gernreich, portraying the fascinating career of this revolutionary designer, shows how fashion both reflects and anticipates social trends and developments.

IN THE OPEN AIR

The School of Barbizon and its effect on Austrian landscape painting

In this exhibition, complementary to the painters of Barbizon, we show a wide range of approximately 200 selected Austrian landscape pictures from the collection of the Neue Galerie, including Schindler, Jettel, Hörmann, Egner, Zoff and Damianos. The show also provides an opportunity to illustrate the effect of the French pleinairism on the domestic art scene of the 19th and 20th centuries with concrete examples.

Olafur Eliasson

"Surroundings Surrounded"

The Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, born in 1967, has dedicated his installations to human perception and physical laws and to the conditions of nature.

Max Peintner: Take off

Perception in the technological era

The Neue Galerie dedicates an exhibition in the Graz Künstlerhaus to an extensive retrospective of the work of this important Austrian artist.

Jordan Crandall

"Drive"

Drive is a seven-part video installation that combines traditional cinema with military tracking, identifying and targeting technologies.