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SHOWING STYRIA 2021: how it was. Space and History
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History Museum
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SHOWING STYRIA 2021: how it is. Worlds Changes Perspectives
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Folk Life Museum
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SHOWING STYRIA 2021: what will be. Towards a Plurality of Futures
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Kunsthaus Graz
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Mobile pavilion 2021: who we are. Art Diversity Landscape
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Mobile pavilion
SHOWING STYRIA establishes a new format for the major ‘Regional Exhibition’. The intention is to incorporate the advantages of large-scale regional exhibition formats to date (provincial exhibitions, the ‘Regionalen’) and to expand them both in terms of contents and, vitally, geographical coverage.
As the vehicle of SHOWING STYRIA, the Universalmuseum Joanneum has integrated the History Museum, the Folk Life Museum, the Kunsthaus Graz and a mobile pavilion into the overall project.
It corresponds to the nature and tradition of the Joanneum as the province’s museum to engage with the history, art, culture and nature of Styria, and its society in all its variety and breadth.
The centre of the Joanneum has always been in Graz. Yet from the beginning it had a presence in various forms in Styria’s regions, too. Thus, in the days of Archduke Johann, it brought display exhibitions into the markets and towns, in order to better familiarise the population with the nature and culture of their province. The mobile pavilion adopts this approach again, in a forward-looking way.
With the first major SHOWING STYRIA, an arc is drawn that reaches far back into the province's past and extends into the future.
The titles of the individual exhibitions are assigned by content to the respective venues and the mobile pavilion:
how it was. Space and History (History Museum)
how it is. Worlds – Changes – Perspectives (Folk Life Museum)
what will be.Towards a Plurality of Futures (Kunsthaus Graz)
who we are. Art Diversity Landscape (mobile pavilion)
The Mobile Pavilion was part of SHOWING STYRIA, the new regional exhibition, which was made up of four sections, three of which could be seen in Graz in 2021. The fourth exhibition space, the mobile pavilion, was set up at Heldenplatz in Vienna. Afterwards, this mobile gallery space – which was designed by Alexander Kada – continued on a tour of Hartberg, Spielberg, Schladming and Bad Radkersburg. Alongside the extraordinary architecture of the 800m2 pavilion, its highlight was the 50-metre long panorama screen housed inside – a new, cinematic panorama of Styria showing the region from an artistic perspective. Curated by Astrid Kury, the exhibition asked who we are. The answer to this was explored through our relationship with landscapes: we are shaped by the landscapes in which we live and work, and we shape them.
