SHOWING STYRIA

With an innovative reinterpretation of the traditional provincial exhibitions, SHOWING STYRIA presents socially significant topics from an artistic and scientific perspective every two years. The upcoming edition of SHOWING STYRIA in 2025 dives deep into the world of the Eggenbergs and opens up parallels to our present day.

Under the title Ambition & Illusion, Schloss Eggenberg will be transformed into the venue for the third edition of SHOWING STYRIA at the end of April 2025. The UNESCO World Heritage Site and all the museums on site invite visitors to take an unadulterated look at the history of the palace and all its inhabitants.

To mark its 400th anniversary, Schloss Eggenberg will be transformed into the venue for the third SHOWING STYRIA under the title Ambition & Illusion. All museums and a Music Pavilion on site invite you to immerse yourself in the time of the princely Eggenberg family.

Free admission from 2 pm

The exhibition Schloss Eggenberg: the staging of a world in the state rooms and palace chapel, takes us back to the time of the Eggenbergs – a critical and dangerous period, but also one full of opportunity.

Two accompanying exhibitions invite you to learn more about the Eggenberg family and the time around 400 years ago: In the exhibition The Eggenberg Family and the Power of Money, the Coin Cabinet displays special coins on which you can see pictures and names of members of the Eggenberg family. The Eggenbergs had the right of coinage, which means that they were allowed to produce their own coins. The Graz 1699 exhibition can be seen at the Archeology Museum. Using modern technology, you can experience what the city of Graz looked like in the 17th century!

The exhibition Ambition & Illusion. Schloss Eggenberg: the staging of a world brings together precious objects from the world of the Eggenbergs in their residential palace for the first time. The undisputed highlight among the international loans is the unique Golden Carriage of Prince Johann Anton von Eggenberg, which was loaned for the first time for the exhibition as part of the show and will be on display here until 6 October 2025.

In addition, the 2025 show will be completed by a total of three pavilions, which will bring together artistic positions under the title History Repeating? and enable a new reception of the past. The preview in March 2025 showed all three pavilions at Heldenplatz in Vienna before they are presented in Eggenberg, in the Styrian regions and beyond the country's borders.