Annual programme 2026

at Universalmuseum Joanneum

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Programme focus

Step into the exciting worlds of our museums! Traditional and contemporary, regional and international, historical and visionary – you can look forward to diverse exhibitions and events covering art, culture, history and nature. The annual theme BLOOM will focus on blossoms in 2026.

Annual theme: BLOOM

Flowers are desired, loved and traded. They are seen as a symbol of peace, of life’s fragility and of enlightenment. These facets, and others, form the starting point for the Universalmuseum Joanneum and the Kunsthaus Graz to present the flower in all its facets in 2026.

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Exhibitions 2026

Here you will find an overview of the exhibitions at the Universalmuseum Joanneum.

Exhibition

L201 26 1 

Banner exhibition

Art in Public Space

11.01. - 12.04.2026

Exhibition

The Graz Street Photographer

A City in Motion 1929-1932

History Museum

30.01. - 31.05.2026

Exhibition

Cemra

Ziamliačka

Kunsthaus Graz

20.02. - 15.03.2026

Exhibition

Michael Gülzow

The Gate to Unreality

Kunsthaus Graz

20.02. - 29.03.2026

Exhibition

Hybrid Pleasure

Helen Chadwick Supported by Liesl Raff

Kunsthaus Graz

21.03. - 20.09.2026

Exhibition

30% Dandelion

Kunsthaus Graz

21.03. - 08.11.2026

Exhibition

Daniela Brasil

Up/Rooting

Austrian Sculpture Park

07.04. - 31.10.2026

Exhibition

Analytical Beauty

200 Years of Flower Paintings

Neue Galerie Graz

24.04. - 04.10.2026

Exhibition

Flower Sex

The Colourful Love Life of Plants

Natural History Museum

24.04.2026 - 12.09.2027

Exhibition

Flowers, personally

Of myths, symbols, fragrance and love

Schloss Trautenfels

01.05. - 31.10.2026

Exhibition

Blooming Fields

Into the Blue

Hunting Museum and Agriculture Museum, Schloss Stainz

09.05. - 31.10.2026

Exhibition

Markus Huemer

A football pitch must be free from trees!

Neue Galerie Graz

14.05. - 30.08.2026

Exhibition

Blooming Medicine

The Power of Plants 

Austrian Open-Air Museum Stübing

17.05. - 31.10.2026

Exhibition

Speaking Through Flowers

Stories of Giving

Folk Life Museum

21.05.2026 - 31.01.2027

Exhibition

The Blossoming Language of Money

Floral Motifs on Coins and Banknotes

Coin Cabinet, Schloss Eggenberg

22.05. - 31.10.2026

Exhibition

After the War

Humanitarian Relief and Reconstruction in Styria

History Museum

19.06.2026 - 06.01.2027

Exhibition

Eva Schlegel

Kunsthaus Graz

23.10.2026 - 21.03.2027