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Milica Tomić. On Love Afterwards

Press release

The survey exhibition offers insight into the practice of artist Milica Tomić.

12.06.2025

Alpine Adriatic region Pavilion in Ljubljana

Press release

11.06.2025

From Up in the Valley. Simon Baptist - Archive Franz Göttfried

Press release

07.05.2025

FLiP at CoSA

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25.04.2025

SHOWING STYRIA 2025

Press conference at Schloss Eggenberg

Join us in celebrating the 400th anniversary of Schloss Eggenberg. The major anniversary exhibition combines unique works of art and princely rooms with new media and music.

10.04.2025

Gerhard Rühm

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Gerhard Rühm celebrates his 95th birthday in 2025.

02.04.2025

But there are unspeakable things – The painter Wolfgang Hollegha

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When Wolfgang Hollegha came to New York in 1959 at the invitation of Clement Greenberg, the first storms of ‘Abstract Expressionism’, which was equated in Europe with ‘Art Informel’, were ebbing away.

30.03.2025

Changing Childhood. From the Straw Doll to the Smartphone

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The special exhibition at the Rosegger Museum invites visitors to take a journey through time.

28.03. - 29.03.2025

Diagonale '25: Simona Obholzer

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In 2025 the winner of the ‘Innovative Cinema’ award - Simona Obholzer - is once again preparing the trailer for the Diagonale ʼ25 as well as an exhibition at Kunsthaus Graz.

26.03.2025

Freedom Was an Episode (tbc)

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With Freedom Was an Episode (tbc), the BRUSEUM is taking stock of current surveillance and the restriction of freedom

21.03.2025

Maruša Sagadin. Speak More Truth, Eat More Fruit

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Maruša Sagadin's site-specific sculptural intervention is both an invitation and a reference to the artist's roots, which combine elements of street art, pop, comic, and hip-hop culture. The work breaks with established codes with relish and sensitively exposes social mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in urban space.

18.03.2025

PARAVENT HISTORY(S)

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12.03.2025

SHOWING STYRIA 2025

Press conference in Vienna

As part of SHOWING STYRIA 2025 with the title Ambition & Illusion

12.03.2025

Eröffnung Pavillons der STEIERMARK SCHAU 2025

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Die Pavillons der STEIERMARK SCHAU 2025 eröffneten am Wiener Heldenplatz.

06.03.2025

Age(ing) and Living

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A participatory museum project

26.02.2025

Freeing the Voices

Press release

The world we live in is completely untuned in the face of multiple crises and the loss of the common space of bodies resonating with each other. 27 artists search for the liberation of our individual and collective voice amidst cancel culture and an overwhelming noise of information, not so much to rediscover our self as our relationship to the world.

12.02.2025

The Bourgeoise on Stage. Styria from the City to the Country around 1900

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28.01.2025

Time Travel. Photography between Tradition and Modernity

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30.12.2024

Famakan Magassa. Riez et faites rire car trop sérieux n'est pas très sérieux

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Under the motto ‘Laugh and make others laugh, because too serious is not very serious’, the Kunsthaus Graz invites you to take part in a project with the artist Famakan Magassa.

10.12.2024

2025 Annual Programme: Universalmuseum Joanneum

Press conference

BLOOM 2026

In 2026, the Universalmuseum Joanneum and Kunsthaus Graz are dedicating a joint annual theme to BLOOM. Between spring and autumn, BLOOM invites visitors to explore the flower and its close relationship with humankind.

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