Press program
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2024
06.09. - 13.09.
Bill Fontana. Silent Echoes: Dachstein
Press release
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.
2024
30.07. - 01.08.
SHOWING STYRIA 2023: A guest in Slovenia
Press release
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
2024
11.07.
Unmistakably Waldorf!
Press release
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.
2024
08.07.
Catrin Bolt. Lauftext
Presseinformation zur Wiedereröffnung
Wiedereröffnung und Begehung des Projektes Lauftext von Catrin Bolt mit Begrüßung durch Elie Rosen (Jüdische Gemeinde Graz), Einführung von Elisabeth Fiedler (Institut für Kunst im öffenltlichen Raum Steiermark) und in Anwesenheit von Stadtrat Robert Krotzer.
2024
06.07.
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
2024
28.06.
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?
2024
21.06. - 30.06.
Haus-Geist. Abdul Sharif Oluwafemi Baruwa
Press release
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.
2024
19.06.
Adolf A. Osterider
Press release
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.
2024
01.06. - 03.06.
Signal from the Dachstein
Press release
‘Signal from the Dachstein’ is a community art project of the La Strada Graz Festival in the Dachstein region.
2024
26.05.
2024
26.05.
In Then Out 2024. Adaptation by students of the FH Joanneum, Architecture and Civil Engineering
Press release
2024
26.05.
2024
24.05.
Benjamin Reynolds. Dealer's Way | OPEN FIELDS
Press release
In his Dealer’s Way project, Reynolds deals with the once flourishing, now almost lost tradition of one of the oldest cultivated plants, flax.