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Precious Junk. Collected (Hi-)Stories

Press release

60 years of collecting and preserving

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

Erzherzog Johann Museum. A Life for Progress

Press conference and press release

06.05.2024

Günter Brus. A Mad Scrap of Paper

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30.04.2024

24/7. Work between meaning and imbalance

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In the age of 24/7 access, traditional working hours have long ceased to be the norm. Bike couriers, previously a symbol of physical and flexible work, are now part of the revolution in digital distribution, their gaudy colours a lively addition to the appearance of cities.

24.04.2024

Who Are You, Styria? A project on collection objects and their stories

Press release

17.04.2024

The Shaped World. Archaeology of the ArchaeoRegion Southwest Styria

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11.04.2024

Show! Highlights from the Collection

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06.04. - 05.05.2024

Eva Egermann, Cordula Thym. C-TV: Close Encounters of the Hamster Kind

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C-TV is moving into the Kunsthaus.

03.04.2024

Alicja Kwade @ Sol LeWitt's Wall. Performed

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What does the world sit on when we sit on it?
As in many of her works, Alicja Kwade questions our habits of perception within Sol LeWitt's Wall. Compared to harmoniously floating stones and bronze world chairs, rotation and gravity as the basic conditions of our life on the blue sphere might simply be a question of perspective.

01.04.2024

Speaking of Masterpieces. New perspectives on the Alte Galerie

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Get new insights into artworks of the Alte Galerie: Renowned researchers offer lectures on fascinating masterpieces.

23.03.2024

People, Worlds and Objects. Stories of a Region

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This special exhibition opens up a dialogue between topics specific to the region, which are now contextualised and discussed at a European and in parts even at a global level.

08.03.2024

go to work on an egg

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by Julia Haugeneder in cooperation with Magdalena Kreinecker and Matteo Sanders.

Exhibition furniture by Werkbüro (Lucas Schmid) in cooperation with Julia Haugeneder and Magdalena Kreinecker

29.02.2024

It's All Work. Women between Paid Employment and Care Work, Fotoarchiv Blaschka 1950-1966

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05.02.2024

1934. The Price and Value of Democracy

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01.02.2024

Renate Krammer. Linien @ Sol LeWitt’s Wall. Performed

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The rigorous concept of the line becomes a multidimensional drawing in (and of) time and space.

26.01.2024

The Other Life. Photographs by Konrad Mautner

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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