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Freedom Was an Episode (tbc)

Press release

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

Press release

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.

2025

18.03.

PARAVENT HISTORY(S)

Press release

2025

12.03.

SHOWING STYRIA 2025

Press conference in Vienna

2025

06.03.

Age(ing) and Living

Press information

A participatory museum project

2025

26.02.

Freeing the Voices

Press release

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.

The Bourgeoise on Stage. Styria from the City to the Country around 1900

Press release

2025

28.01.

Time Travel. Photography between Tradition and Modernity

Press release

2024

30.12.

Famakan Magassa. Riez et faites rire car trop sérieux n'est pas très sérieux

Press information

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

10.12.

2025 Annual Programme: Universalmuseum Joanneum

Press conference

2024

04.12.

OPEN FIELDS. An exhibition in the Neue Galerie Graz

Press release

2024

03.12.

Kunsthaus Graz presents the 2025 programme

Press release

2024

27.11.

Selection. Highlights from the collection

Press release

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

Press release

The exhibition Poetics of Power is aimed at revealing manifestations of power that are hidden in symbols, gestures and existing, unquestioned relationships or systems.

2024

23.10.

Hermann Nitsch. Drawings

Press release

2024

25.09.

Treasures from the Natural History Collections

Press release

2024

19.09.

Horror Patriae

Press release

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.