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2024

14.11.

Poetics of Power

Poetics of Power

Press release

2024

23.10.

Hermann Nitsch. Drawings

Hermann Nitsch. Drawings

Press release

2024

25.09.

Treasures from the Natural History Collections

Treasures from the Natural History Collections

Press release

2024

19.09.

Horror Patriae

Horror Patriae

Press release

2024

06.09. - 13.09.

Bill Fontana. Silent Echoes: Dachstein

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

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

2024

11.07.

Unmistakably Waldorf!

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

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

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

03.07.

Azra Akšamija. Sanctuary

Azra Akšamija. Sanctuary

Press release

2024

28.06.

Animalia. The animals of Flavia Solva

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

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

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

12.06.

Listen! Listen! 100 Years of Radio

Listen! Listen! 100 Years of Radio

Press release

2024

01.06. - 03.06.

Signal from the Dachstein

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.

Artists in Residence 2024. Sculpture and Space, class of Hans Schabus

Artists in Residence 2024. Sculpture and Space, class of Hans Schabus

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2024

26.05.

In Then Out 2024. Adaptation by students of the FH Joanneum, Architecture and Civil Engineering

In Then Out 2024. Adaptation by students of the FH Joanneum, Architecture and Civil Engineering

Press release

2024

26.05.

Precious Junk. Collected (Hi-)Stories

Precious Junk. Collected (Hi-)Stories

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60 years of collecting and preserving

2024

24.05.

Benjamin Reynolds. Dealer's Way | OPEN FIELDS

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.

2024

23.05.

Janz Franz

Janz Franz

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In "Sanctuary", Azra Akšamija creates ‘protective spaces’ and explores various aspects of the term ‘safe haven’

Kunsthaus Graz, 03.07.2024

 

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The theme of work is the focus of the new exhibition ‘24/7’ at Kunsthaus Graz

Kunsthaus Graz, 30.04.2024

 

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Neue Galerie Graz shows around 300 highlights from its collection

Neue Galerie Graz, 23.04.2024

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Annual programme 2024

Exhibitions and projects 2024 at a glance.

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