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06.09. - 13.09.2024
Bill Fontana. Silent Echoes: Dachstein
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As a strong statement on climate change and cultural fragility, Fontana brings the haunting bell sounds of Notre Dame to the melting ice caves of the Dachstein.
30.07. - 01.08.2024
SHOWING STYRIA 2023: A guest in Slovenia
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A cooperation between the Universalmuseum Joanneum and the Austrian Cultural Forum Ljubljana is bringing the exhibition, which deals with fundamental questions of our time, to neighbouring Slovenia
11.07.2024
Unmistakably Waldorf!
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Günter Waldorf (1924–2012), Günter Stessl, was a well-known personality who shaped Styrian cultural life. He was thus the initiator and founding member of the Forum Stadtpark and one of the creative minds behind the Kunsthaus Graz – among other things. Moreover, he created an independent oeuvre that incorporated the various trends that characterised (Austrian) painting in the second half of the 20th century in an inimitable way, often laced with his own irony. In the case of Waldorf, the rare phenomenon was found that his works appealed to a wider public without his works submitting to some kind of public taste. Submission was also a foreign concept to the former boxer. The exhibition shows a cross-section of his creative output with a limited number of works.
08.07.2024
Catrin Bolt. Lauftext
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Reopening and guided walk-through of the project “Lauftext” by Catrin Bolt, with welcoming remarks by Elie Rosen (Jewish Community of Graz), an introduction by Elisabeth Fiedler (Institute for Art in Public Space Styria), and in the presence of City Councillor Robert Krotzer.
06.07.2024
DigiDic. Call for Digital Self-Defence
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This interdisciplinary exhibition addresses the theme of digital dictatorship as well as the question of autonomy and the development of strategies for digital self-defence
03.07.2024
Azra Akšamija. Sanctuary
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What is sacred? Azra Aksamija's "shelters" can be actively experienced and focus on social, ethical and ecological sustainability.
28.06.2024
Animalia. The animals of Flavia Solva
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Almost 150 years of excavation work in Flavia Solva have also unearthed large quantities of animal remains. Which animals were eaten in Flavia Solva and which animals were found in Central Styria in Roman times?
21.06. - 30.06.2024
Haus-Geist. Abdul Sharif Oluwafemi Baruwa
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Abdul Sharif Oluwafemi Baruwa creates installations consisting of video, sculpture, drawings, paintings and objects. In them, his identity appears as a reflection of conflict-laden socio-political structures. Sharif formulates controversial topics such as everyday racism, nationalism and migration with a lightness that combines the poetic with the political. The Studio Room is the only exhibition space that is not located in the historic building of Neue Galerie. Since 2017, the space has been used to present young Austrian positions.
19.06.2024
Adolf A. Osterider
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Adolf A. Osterider (1924–2019) was among the prominent representatives of a form of lyrical Expressionism in Styria, whereby he achieved unequal mastery in watercolour painting, above all. Besides the depiction of landscapes, he increasingly devoted himself in cycles to the theme of the Commedia dell’Arte and its characters. Osterider was also an important teacher. Following studies under Hans Adametz and Rudolf Szyszkowitz at the Ortweinschule in Graz and under Sergius Pauser at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, he himself worked as a teacher at the Ortweinschule from 1956 onwards, where he ran the master classing for painting from 1965 until 1986 (with some interruptions). The exhibition in the Neue Galerie Graz featuring selected works coincides with the presentation of a book about the man and artist written by friends, acquaintances and companions, marking what would have been his 100th birthday.
01.06. - 03.06.2024
Signal from the Dachstein
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‘Signal from the Dachstein’ is a community art project of the La Strada Graz Festival in the Dachstein region.
26.05.2024
Artists in Residence 2024. Sculpture and Space, class of Hans Schabus
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Every year, the Austrian Sculpture Park invites national and international artists and art classes to engage with the park and develop their own temporary works for the sculpture park as part of an artist-in-residence project. For the year 2024, the class Hans Schabus, at the University of Applied Arts Vienna has been invited.
26.05.2024
In Then Out 2024. Adaptation by students of the FH Joanneum, Architecture and Civil Engineering
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The Austrian Sculpture Park invites school classes and student groups to engage with the park. The aim is to develop their own temporary adaptation of the artwork In Then Out, 2014 by the class of Tobias Rehberger, Städelschule Frankfurt/Main. Students from the FH Joanneum, Architecture and Civil Engineering, under the direction of Anke Strittmatter and Sigrid Bürstmayr, have been recruited for 2024.
26.05.2024
24.05.2024
Benjamin Reynolds. Dealer's Way | OPEN FIELDS
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In his Dealer’s Way project, Reynolds deals with the once flourishing, now almost lost tradition of one of the oldest cultivated plants, flax.
23.05.2024
Janz Franz
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A first retrospective of the work of an exiled Styrian whose art is characterized by the Graz (sub)culture of the 1960s.
17.05.2024
Lisa D. IN SEARCH OF FULFILLMENT
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IN SEARCH OF FULFILLMENT is a repair and transformation project dealing with the topics of online logistics, fast fashion, and the search for happiness.
11.05. - 09.06.2024
Gabriela Golder @ Sol LeWitt's Wall. Performed
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Gabriela Golder beschäftigt sich zum Abschluss der skulpturalen Interventionen mit der Frage von Erinnerung und Verbindung
07.05.2024
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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Kunsthaus Graz
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![[Translate to English:] Fassade Landeszeughaus](/fileadmin/_processed_/6/c/csm_fassade_schraeg_von_unten_hoch_135bf44d11.jpg "Styrian Armoury")
Styrian Armoury
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History Museum
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Schloss Eggenberg
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Alte Galerie
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Archaeology Museum
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![[Translate to English:] Ansicht Dauerausstellung Münzkabinett Schloss Eggenberg](/fileadmin/_processed_/0/c/csm_Muenzkabinett_Dauerausstellung_2023_09_5954603e9a.jpg "Exhibition view of the Coin Cabinet")
Coin Cabinet
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![[Translate to English:] Ansicht Standort Volkskundemuseum](/fileadmin/_processed_/7/4/csm_Ansicht_Volkskundemuseum_2023_21_837f6ab733.jpg "Folk Life Museum at the Paulustor")
Folk Life Museum at the Paulustor
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Neue Galerie Graz and BRUSEUM
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Natural History Museum
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CoSA - Center of Science Activities
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Austrian Sculpture Park
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Austrian Open-Air Museum Stübing
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Schloss Trautenfels
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Museums in Schloss Stainz
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Flavia Solva
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![[Translate to English:] Ansicht Alpl Standort](/fileadmin/_processed_/3/2/csm_Rosegger_Alpl_2023_13_12a1c7c786.jpg "Rosegger-Birthplace Alpl")
Rosegger’s Birthplace and Rosegger Museum
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Institute for Art in Public Space
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Zoo Herberstein
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SHOWING STYRIA
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