All programme items

Film and Cinema in Styria

The History Museum’s main exhibition in 2022 undertakes forays into the world of Styrian film and cinema history.

A Playground Guide to Getting Lost

Prize of the Province of Styria for the Promotion of Contemporary Visual Art 2021

For the Promotion Prize of the Province of Styria for Contemporary Fine Arts 2021 competition, 12 artists have been selected for the group exhibition in which they present diverse media art works including (sound-)installations, video, sculptures, posters, paintings, objects and ceramic works.

Artothek Styria 2021

The Artothek Styria offers art enthusiasts the chance to hire selected originals from the Neue Galerie Graz for private use.

SUPERFLEX

Sometimes As A Fog, Sometimes As A Tsunami

The exhibition of the Danish artist group SUPERFLEX shows a selection of new as well as already existing works. The focus is on capitalist economics as a dissolving factor of social realities, as a fluid form that seeps into people’s lives, into every crack and corner of our reality – sometimes as a fog, sometimes as a tsunami.

Helmut & Johanna Kandl

Palette

Palette pursues the question of where the paints, pigments and binding agents used in a painting come from. In this sense, every painting also represents a map.

‘I'm a photo amateur!’

In the archive of Eugen Hauber, 1925-1986

The Multimedia Collections devote themselves to a Graz photographer unjustly fallen into oblivion, whose photos have to date never been presented to the public.

Günter Brus and Alfons Schilling around 1960

Dropping out of the Picture

1960 Günter Bruns and Alfons Schilling spend several months together on Mallorca, where they meet the young American artist Joan Merrit, who familiarises them with the painting of the ‘New York School’.

Melanie Ender

The studio exhibitions can be visited free of charge.

Ladies and Gentlemen

The Fragile Feminist We

In a continuation of the historic show "Ladies First!", this theme is closely examined with works from the Neue Galerie’s international collection ranging from the 1970s to the present day.

MARTIN WALDE

Facts from Fiction – Fiction from Facts

Martin Walde, installation artist, sculptor and illustrator, explores the question of historicity in this exhibition.

Gold, Gold, Only You …

Opening: 30.09.2021 In several regions of Styria remarkable alluvial gold findings have been made in recent years.

Samson Ogiamien

Iyagbon’s Mirror

The studio exhibitions can be visited free of charge.

Josef Pillhofer

from 2 to 3 - 100 years of josef pillhofer

This exhibition is not a representative overview, rather it is the single view of several key questions formulated by Pillhofer in a most intriguing way.

Günter Brus. Picture-Poems

Open House: 19.06.2021, 10am-5pm, free admission The exhibition at the BRUSEUM, devoted for the first time exclusively to his picture-poems, shows the process of creation and diversity of this genre developed by Brus from the early 1970s to the present day.

Jennifer Mattes

Atlantis Bars

A silvery, melancholic glitter world where time stands still. Mirages, ships, and tears have come to rest here, while the world keeps turning. Jennifer Mattes assembles found material from film, music, and furnishings into fantastical hybrid figures of abandoned film sets.

All Manner of Household Remedies

On Herbs, Ointments and Forgotten Healing Tradition

Death triumphant

Scenes of war

The early modern period is marked by war and its dramatic consequences for countries and people. Art, above all the popular graphic print, has handed down a vivid and often shocking image of it.

The Archbishops’ Gold

Salzburg Coins from the Collection of Bankhaus Spängler and the Universalmuseum Joanneum Coin Cabinet

The exhibition shows a selection of these splendid gold coins

Cat tree: Dejan Marković

Polyphonic Assemblage

The artist Dejan Marković took the title of the sculpture literally and developed a site-specific (im)possible situation between two invited cats, the sculpture and the architecture of the Kunsthaus.

SHOWING STYRIA: what will be

Towards a Plurality of Futures

The exhibition what will be is dedicated to identifying the traces of the future in the here and now.