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Here you will find text and image material on current and past exhibitions, various projects and all the sites and museums of the Universalmuseum Joanneum.
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2025
02.04.
But there are unspeakable things – The painter Wolfgang Hollegha
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When Wolfgang Hollegha came to New York in 1959 at the invitation of Clement Greenberg, the first storms of ‘Abstract Expressionism’, which was equated in Europe with ‘Art Informel’, were ebbing away.
2025
30.03.
Changing Childhood. From the Straw Doll to the Smartphone
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The special exhibition at the Rosegger Museum invites visitors to take a journey through time.
2025
28.03. - 29.03.
Diagonale '25: Simona Obholzer
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In 2025 the winner of the ‘Innovative Cinema’ award - Simona Obholzer - is once again preparing the trailer for the Diagonale ʼ25 as well as an exhibition at Kunsthaus Graz.
2025
26.03.
Freedom Was an Episode (tbc)
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With Freedom Was an Episode (tbc), the BRUSEUM is taking stock of current surveillance and the restriction of freedom
2025
21.03.
Maruša Sagadin. Speak More Truth, Eat More Fruit
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Maruša Sagadin's site-specific sculptural intervention is both an invitation and a reference to the artist's roots, which combine elements of street art, pop, comic, and hip-hop culture. The work breaks with established codes with relish and sensitively exposes social mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in urban space.
%20and%20Living "Age(ing) and Living")
2025
26.02.
Freeing the Voices
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The world we live in is completely untuned in the face of multiple crises and the loss of the common space of bodies resonating with each other. 27 artists search for the liberation of our individual and collective voice amidst cancel culture and an overwhelming noise of information, not so much to rediscover our self as our relationship to the world.
2025
12.02.
2024
30.12.
Famakan Magassa. Riez et faites rire car trop sérieux n'est pas très sérieux
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Under the motto ‘Laugh and make others laugh, because too serious is not very serious’, the Kunsthaus Graz invites you to take part in a project with the artist Famakan Magassa.
2024
27.11.
Selection. Highlights from the collection
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Due to strong demand, a permanent presentation of the collection is now on show, which can be seen in concentrated form under the title Selection.
2024
14.11.
Poetics of Power
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The exhibition Poetics of Power is aimed at revealing manifestations of power that are hidden in symbols, gestures and existing, unquestioned relationships or systems.
Press releases
The Universalmuseum Joanneum is showing a varied programme in 2025, with themes ranging from regional identity to global issues
Universalmuseum Joanneum, January 16th 2025
The 2025 Annual Programme is dedicated to how power is handled – from suppression and empowerment to radical hope
Kunsthaus Graz, 11.12.2024
Poetics of Power explores subtle mechanisms, effects and resistances to hidden structures of power
Kunsthaus Graz, 15.11.2024
Annual programme 2025
Exhibitions and projects 2025 at a glance.
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SHOWING STYRIA 2025
Here you will find initial information on SHOWING STYRIA 2025.
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Universalmuseum Joanneum
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Museums and locations
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 und 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-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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