Exhibition Programme 2017 of the Opening Exhibition / Project Museum Duration Page

09.02. Dizziness. Navigating the Unknown Kunsthaus Graz 10.02.-28.05.2017 4

23.03. Erwin Wurm. Football-sized lump of clay on light blue car roof Kunsthaus Graz 24.03.-20.08.2017 5

April 17 Light Art in Public Space All year round 6 05.04. God and the World. What Do We Believe In? Schloss Trautenfels 06.04.-31.10.2017 7 06.04. Yoshio Nakajima. Out of the Picture Neue Galerie Graz 07.04.-09.07.2017 8 06.04. Struggle and Passion. Japanese Colour Woodcuts Neue Galerie Graz 07.04.-20.08.2017 9 21.-23.04. Big Wirbel. Stroke and Thread Kunsthaus Graz 21.-23.04.2017 10 27.04. The Fauth photographs. A photo studio in west Styria History Museum 28.04.–08.10.2017 11 27.04. Collection History. Open collections History Museum permanent exhibition 12

04.05. SEXperten. Speedy Bees and Wonderful Pikes Museum 05.05.2017-07.01.2018 13 21.05. Spring Celebration Austrian Sculpture Park 21.05.2017 31 24.05. Who are you? Two centuries of portraits Neue Galerie Graz 25.05.-03.09.2017 14 24.05. Flavia Solva. Retracing the Romans Flavia Solva permanent presentation 15

14.06. ‘One Hammer Blow…’ 500 years of Protestant faith in Styria History Museum 15.06.2017–08.01.2018 16 22.06. Koki Tanaka. Provisional Studies (Working Title) Kunsthaus Graz 23.06.-27.08.2017 17 22.06. Haegue Yang. The VIP‘s Union Kunsthaus Graz 23.06.2017-02.04.2018 17 29.06. In Bed. Episodes of a refuge Folk Life Museum 30.06.2017–end of 2018 18

07.09. Museum as Toolbox Kunsthaus Graz 08.09.-15.10.2017 19 10.09. Late Summer Celebration Austrian Sculpture Park 10.09.2017 31 21.-24.09. World Peace Day 2017 Styrian Armoury, History Museum, Folk Life Museum 21.-24.09.2017 20 23.09. Up into the Unknown. Kunsthaus Graz Kunsthaus Graz 23.09.2017-25.03.2018 21 23.09. Graz Architecture. Rationalists, Aesthetes, Gut Instinct Architects, Democrats, Mediacrats Kunsthaus Graz 23.09.2017-07.01.2018 22 23.09. steirischer herbst 2017 / herbst-Exhibition Neue Galerie Graz 23.09.-03.12.2017 23 23.09. steirischer herbst 2017 / herbst-Exhibition Neue Galerie Graz 23.09.2017-18.02.2018 23

05.10. Victor Hugo – Günter Brus Neue Galerie Graz 06.10.2017-14.01.2018 24

04.11. Artothek Styria 2017 Neue Galerie Graz 05.-26.11.2017 25 16.11. Collected History: Photo Film Sound. Open collections History Museum permanent exhibition 26 16.11. Styrian Nightscape. Photo expedition to Styria by night History Museum 17.11.2017-February 2018 26 16.11. Narrated History History Museum 17.11.2017–15.11.2020 27

07.12. Kunstraum Steiermark 2017 Neue Galerie Graz 08.12.2017-04.02.2018 28

Brus Collections Exhibitions Neue Galerie Graz all year round 29 studio Neue Galerie Graz all year round 30 Projects of the Department of Archaeology & Coin Cabinet Archaeology & Coin Cabinet all year round 32

2 Highlights 2016

Donation of the Helmut Suschnigg collection

- most comprehensive and precious donation in the existence of the Neue Galerie Graz - more than 470 works of painting, graphics and sculpture - main areas of focus: American Pop Art and contemporary Austrian painting and sculpture

Record number of visitors

- 90,270 visitors in October 2016 – highest recorded number of visitors in a single month

ECSITE Conference

- The largest conference ever in the history of the Joanneum took place this year from June 7th to 11th in Graz. The ECSITE is the largest congress worldwide for science communication, and 1,081 participants from 53 countries took part in Graz. The event was organised by the Kindermuseum Frida & freD, the ScienceCenter Netzwerk and the Universalmuseum Joanneum.

Highest subsidies for EU projects

- The EU projects ‘Palaeo-landscape of Styria and its biodiversity from prehistory to the discovery of the New World’ (PalaeoDiversiStyria) and ‘Monumentalised Early Iron Age Landscapes in the river basin’ (Iron Age Danube) are being supported by the EU to the tune of 1.3 million euros (PalaeoDiversiStyria) and 2.5 million euros (Iron Age Danube) respectively. This is the highest sum ever received by the Department of Archaeology and Coin Cabinet for research projects.

3 Dizziness Navigating the Unknown

Kunsthaus Graz, Space02 Opening: 09.02.2017 Duration: 10.02.-28.05.2017 Curated by Katrin Bucher Trantow, Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond In cooperation with the CCA Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw, the Diagonale´17, the MEGAPHON and the Institute for Differential Psychology, Uni Graz. Supported by the Academy of Fine Arts , Dizziness – A Resource (FWF-Peek) and by the David-Herzog-Fonds.

A destabilised world has become everyday reality: stories of crisis on a daily basis set the world reeling, whether real or fictional. A general feeling of unrest and anxiety about immediate changes conjures up the image of a whirling planet. And yet, as has been claimed many times, creativity that is unleashed through the whirl of systems is at the root of all artistic and creativity activity. As the condition of ‘navigating the unknown’, we recognise whirl or dizziness as a state of normality in the meandering search for the creative impulse.

With works by Ruth Anderwald+Leonhard Grond, Oliver Hangl, Ann Veronica Janssens, Anna Jermolaewa, Joachim Koester, Henri Michaux, Oliver Ressler, Ariel Schlesinger and Jonathan Monk,Bruce Nauman, Ben Russel, Esther Stocker, among others.

4 Erwin Wurm Football-sized lump of clay on light blue car roof

Kunsthaus Graz, Space01 Opening: 23.03.2017 Duration: 24.03.-20.08.2017 Curated by Günther Holler-Schuster

The exhibition by Erwin Wurm (*1954 in Bruck an der ) in the Kunsthaus Graz takes as its starting point the open architectural structure of the Kunsthaus. Elements of the performative, participatory and sculptural form are thus connected to one another and to the building. In Wurm’s work essential lines of development in the sculpture of the 20th and 21st century emerge – from the object, to the action, to the creating of the image. Presence and absence move through Wurm’s work as issues, whereby absences in particular (whether of an object or a person) stimulate the power of the imagination.

5 LIGHT

Plex Noir/Resource Light Date: April 20th 2017, 8 pm in the Joanneum Quarter

After the successful light works in public space in Graz in 2015, the Institute for Art in Public Space Styria – following the initiative of Christian Buchmann, State Cultural Counsellor – is focusing specially on the theme of light in 2017.

The artists’ collective Plex Noir has developed an interactive light and sound installation for the Joanneum Quarter, the intention being to create a discourse with the Joanneum courtyard as a location of urban life. Passers-by influence the projection both directly and indirectly, whereby the realisation both in sound and visual terms is based on physical and biological phenomena, and is computer-generated. The projections are influenced by the visitors’ mobile phones in two ways: by the devices’ radiowaves being received and reflected on the one hand, and by direct influence being exerted on the installation via a simple interface, on the other.

Several works by artists on the theme Resource Light will be on show in Graz’s inner city, including those of Werner Reiterer, Manfred Erjautz and Liddy Scheffknecht. The history of the development of light in urban areas is covered, as is the discovery and growing awareness of various speeds of light and sound, or the mutual effects of space and time. The irritation factor of shadow as ‘non-light’ is thematised; likewise the marking of specific places by means of self-charging fluorescent colours. The theme of a 24-hour working world, in which light is the constant companion, is taken up, with visitors being made aware of the phenomenon of the transition from consciousness to sleep. To heighten perception, the continuously changing colours of the sky are ‘controlled’ and experienced more directly by means of a colour spectrum.

Brigitte Kowanz Date: April 27th 2017, 7 pm, Palais Herberstein, Sackstraße 16

The investigation of space, light and language forms the nucleus of the work of internationally renowned Austrian artist Brigitte Kowanz, who will represent at the Venice Biennale in 2017 along with Erwin Wurm. Kowanz has developed a specific work for the entrance area of the museum in the Palais Herberstein, which opens up the hallway optically, making it more of an experience as a result. The subtle and yet memorable work reflects the artist’s interaction with this architecture that is important both in art history, and history more broadly.

6 God and the World What do we believe in?

Schloss Trautenfels Opening: 05.04.2017, 6 pm Duration: 06.04.-31.10.2017 Curated by Katharina Krenn and Wolfgang Sotill

To mark two anniversaries – 500 years of the Lutheran Theses (2017) and 800 years of the Diocese of Graz-Seckau (2018) – the new special exhibition in Schloss Trautenfels is dedicated to the general theme of ‘faith and believing’. At the heart of the exhibition lies an investigation of the fundamental spiritual needs of mankind from both a philosophical and religious theory viewpoint, and the dialogue between the world religions as well. Mindful of the international context, the exhibition covers such aspects as freedom of religion, integration, tolerance, extremism and migration. The interdisciplinary approach to the theme carefully explores the question of how the spiritual, religious cosmos of religions is reflected in people’s daily lives.

7 Yoshio Nakajima Out of the Picture

BRUSEUM, Neue Galerie Graz Opening: 06.04.2017 Duration: 07.04.–09.07.2017 Curated by Roman Grabner

Yoshio Nakajima (* 1940) is among the pioneers of Happenings in Japan and Northern Europe, even though his name is missing from almost all anthologies and art histories concerned. He is one of the great unknowns, who has always been positioned at the hub of avant-garde innovations, yet has been ignored and forgotten by those who make art history – and history is always made. This retrospective is dedicated to his early performative works from the 1950s in Japan up to the 1970s in Europe.

8 Struggle and Passion Japanese Colour Woodcuts

Neue Galerie Graz Opening: 06.04.2017 Duration: 07.04.–20.08.2017 Curated by Peter Peer

The Neue Galerie Graz owns some 300 coloured woodcuts, mainly by Japanese artists, as well as several works of Chinese painters of the period from the end of the 18th to the 19th century. The variety of themes in Japanese art of this period is also reflected in several areas of the collection of the Neue Galerie Graz: Kabuki scenes show famous actors in characteristic roles, for instance. Ukiyo-e illustrations reflect the life and culture of Japan’s bourgeois society. A selection of commercial art likewise offers insight into a culture that appears exotic to us, and yet in some areas, modern.

9 Big Wirbel Stroke and Thread

Kunsthaus Graz 21.–23.04.2017 Curated by Monika Holzer-Kernbichler

In 2017 a new series is launched with the title ‘Big Wirbel’, which under the motto of Material and Technique will annually create a two-day focal point designed to extend the exhibition programme in terms of contents. In 2017 the focus will be textiles. Starting points in the Kunsthaus are the exhibition with Erwin Wurm as well as the cooperation Clothes Make the Man with the Institute of Art History at Karl-Franzens-University Graz and the art initiative ‘Clothes works of the working city Graz’. On Fridays the theme is introduced by means of theoretical input. Then on Saturdays and Sundays the wider public of all ages is invited free of charge to watch, design and try out for themselves. In Stroke and Thread, artists together with cooperation partners from Graz tackle a comprehensive, participatory programme in the whole of the Kunsthaus, all revolving around textiles in art.

10 The Fauth photographs A photo studio in west Styria

History Museum Opening: 27.04.2017 Duration: 28.04.–08.10.2017 Curated by Heimo Hofgartner and Walter Feldbacher

During his lifetime Franz Fauth (1870–1947) in upper Sulmtal was a widely known personality. So when he first drove his motorcycle through the town of Deutschlandsberg he terrified both man and animal; he enjoyed great popularity as the member of the well-known folk music group, the ‘Fauth Trio’, too. From 1888 Franz Fauth also worked as a professional photographer and successfully ran a studio at this parent’s farm. In 2016, more than 12,000 glass plate negatives, photographic prints, documents and photographic devices were uncovered and retrieved from a hayloft, covered by a layer some 50 cm high of hay, straw and rubble. The exhibition tells this extraordinary story by means of selected photographs and documents.

11 Collected History Open collections

History Museum Opening: 27.04.2017 Permanent exhibition Curated by Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen

The Cultural Historical Collection was created in the late 19th century with the aim of documenting the ‘cultural epochs of the state from the earliest medieval period to the present day’. Today the collection encompasses some 35,000 musical instruments, furniture, scientific and technical devices, fashion for women, men and children, monstrances and rosaries, decorations and medals, sample books and rugs, tiles and busts, locks, candlesticks and burial crosses, drinking vessels and vases. In future the wealth of the collection will be shown in the form of a storage display facility, as a dense collage of thousands of objects covering some 450 square metres.

12 SEXperts Speedy Bees and Wonderful Pikes

Natural History Museum, 1st Floor Opening: 04.05.2017 Duration: 05.05.2017–07.01.2018 Curated by Ursula Stockinger A special exhibition of the Liechtenstein Provincial Museum, extended and expanded by the Universalmuseum Joanneum, Department of Natural History. In cooperation with the Office for Environment Principality of Liechtenstein and the Lichtenstein Provincial Museum.

Sex plays an important role not just for humans; it also acts as the engine of evolution for animals, plants and fungi. Sexual reproduction led to a massive variation in forms – new genetic mixes resulted in new characteristics that were advantageous to enable survival in a changing environment. Smells and colours, light signals and song attract sexual partners; bridal presents are presented, rivals beaten, courtship dances performed, chase is given, and much more besides. The sexual act often leads to a war of sperm, which ultimately results in protected – or indeed deserted – offspring, in the continuation of life.

13 Who are you? Two centuries of portraits

Neue Galerie Graz, 1st and 2nd floors Opening: 24.05.2017 Duration: 25.05.–03.09.2017 Curated by Günther Holler-Schuster and Gudrun Danzer

Portraits are among the oldest themes of the fine arts, long reflecting cultural-historical phenomena, too. This exhibition spans a period from the 19th century through the interwar period and the portents of ‘mass culture’ in Pop Art, up to current portraits, for which new media are also now employed. In Romanticism and Expressionism, one attempted to penetrate the soul of the subject depicted by means of the face. In Realism, by way of contrast, representation of bourgeois self-image was of primary concern. From the 1960s onwards, general artistic-visual issues were treated via the portrait, too, and never have portraits been more pervasive than is the case today: ‘selfies’ leave their mark on all areas of life in this age of social media.

14 Flavia Solva Retracing the Romans

Flavia Solva Opening: 24.05.2017 Permanent presentation

In 2012 the Römermuseum Flavia Solva was converted into a navigable showcase. The interior of the building has been rented out since then, and is operated as a café by Konditorei Koppitz. From 2012 to 2013 the conservation and restoration of the Roman-era foundation walls was undertaken, as was the freeing up to the ancient city on the site to make it visible. By April 2017 the Romans Museums Flavia Solva will have been relaunched, with the location name, quality of visitors’ experience and marketing of location all to be redefined.

Goals of the project are to re-name the location, to improve the visualisation of the former extension of the ancient town of Flavia Solva, and to furnish the open-air site with additional information signs. Moreover, new findings from Flavia Solva are to be presented to visitors in a newly designed ‘display window of the Roman Period’, which was handed over to the Universalmuseum Joanneum in 2016 by Merkur Warenhandels AG in the form of a donation. These measures are to be completed by the end of April 2017. The opening will then take place on May 24th 2017 as part of the traditional ‘Aufrömern’ festival at the market municipality of .

15 ‘One Hammer Blow…’ 500 years of Protestant faith in Styria

History Museum, 2nd floor Opening: 14.06.2017 Duration: 15.06.2017–08.01.2018 Curated by Ulrich Becker, Ernst-Christian Gerhold and Wiltraud Resch

On October 31st 1517, Luther was said to have nailed 95 theses to the door of the castle chapel in Wittenberg as a protest against abuses in the Catholic Church. Our exhibition – key for Styria – is dedicated to the reverberations through the ages of his hammer blows, in this anniversary year, 2017. Part of the show is an ‘antenna system’ on the outskirts of Graz, which shows the historical impact of the Reformation in those places where it took place.

16 Koki Tanaka Provisional Studies (Working Title)

Kunsthaus Graz, Space02 Opening: 22.06.2017 Duration: 23.06.-27.08.2017 Curated von Barbara Steiner

Koki Tanaka (born in Tochigi, Japan) encourages people to exchange mutual goals, to develop a sense of community and creativity, whereby at the same time new rules of collaboration have to be tried out and negotiated. Tanaka is planning a new, place-related work for Graz: the departure point is to be an event where people had previously come together to achieve common change.

Haegue Yang The VIP’s Union

Kunsthaus Graz, Space02 Opening: 22.06.2017 Duration: 23.06.2017-02.04.2018 Curated by Barbara Steiner

The Korean artist Haegue Yang asks well-known or famous personalities – VIPs – from Graz and Styria to loan a chair or table of their choice. Together these pieces of furniture not only produce a portrait of the province and city, they also yield information about the notions of representation, tastes and lifestyle habits of the lenders. Moreover, the assembly reflects existing or aspiring social connections on the part of the Kunsthaus, which issues these invitations together with the artist.

17 In Bed Episodes of a refuge

Natural History Museum, Stöcklsaal plus interventions as permanent exhibition Opening: 29.06.2017 Duration: 30.06.2017–end of 2018 Curated by Eva Kreissl

What do people do in bed? This object is far more than just a piece of furniture. It is the place where we spend the greatest part of our life, and to which we entrust those phases marked by loss of control. The bed is a departure point into the realm of dreams, the location of significant events in our lives; it bears witness to sloth, exhaustion, desperation, feelings of safety, and passion. The walk around the Stöcklsaal and in interventions in the permanent exhibition throughout the Natural History Museum brings us up against things that make us reflect, that move us; it shifts from the serious to the humorous, playing with erotic moments and putting on show, not least of all, the most famous bed in the world.

18 Museum as Toolbox

Kunsthaus Graz Opening: 07.09.2017 Duration: 08.09.-15.10.2017 Conceived by the museum departments of the Museion Bozen, the Museum Sztuki, Lodz, the Kunsthaus Graz, the MSU Zagreb and the KUMU Tallinn – together with the youth groups concerned. As part of the EU Cooperation Project ‘Museum as Toolbox’ – Networking Project 2015-2017.

This experimental show develops a ‘talking museum’, based on a concept devised jointly by five museums (Kumu Tallinn, Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, MSU Zagreb, Museion Bozen, Kunsthaus Graz). It links up local history with museum collections and new, commissioned interventions that have been created in the museums involved, forming along the twin concepts of activation and experience. Cooperation between an active youth group, the curators’ team, the educators as well as the marketing team led to the concept that evolved from this of an open building plan, a museum as medium.

Participating artists: Oaza Collective, Marcin Polak, Aldo Giannotti, Lasnaidee, Luigi Coppola

19 World Peace Day 2017

Main themes to mark World Peace Day of the United Nations Styrian Armoury (as well as History Museum and Natural History Museum) 21.–24.09.2017 Concept and Idea: Eva-Maria Pomberer Curated by Andreas Metelko and Anita Niegelhell

The Styrian Armoury is a museum with a special challenge for educational work: in an aesthetic sense, historical weapons are presented there that exert a great fascination on many people. Yet their purpose was never any other than to commit violence and to kill people. To deal with this ambivalence in a productive way, the educational team has already organised a Day of Action, for the fourth time, to mark the World Peace Day of the United Nations on September 21st. In 2016 600 schoolchildren visited the programmes of the Styrian Armoury and the two institutions likewise involved, the History Museum and the Natural History Museum. In these various programmes light was shed on the origins of conflicts, and thoughts were developed and worked out on alternative ways of dealing with opposites – on the political, social, but also individual level. Particularly in times of increasing polarisation, political polemics and simplification, it is important to link our educational mission with an approach that is comparative, and both socially and historically oriented. In this way we can make a contribution to dismantling new or ‘new-old’ perceived enemies. In 2017 the programme, up to now mainly aimed at schools, will be extended and pitched at a wider public. In this year we will also offer in the following days a multi-varied programme with readings, talks, and dialogue-based practical workshops for adults and youths too. This will be dedicated to the most varied approaches to the issues of war and conflict, and will include existing cooperations as well as those spanning regions.

20 Up into the Unknown Kunsthaus Graz

Kunsthaus Graz, Space01 Opening: 23.09.2017 Duration: 23.09.2017-25.03.2018 Curated by Barbara Steiner

The exhibition Up into the Unknown traces the creation of the Kunsthaus Graz, exploring thereby the relationship between visionary ideas and their realisation. A preset time frame, technical limitations, tight budgets, functional demands, and also elements of chance all changed the conception. Nevertheless, the building still speaks of utopian-visionary moments, which even today can enable the imagination to take flight. As commissioned works, contemporary artists tackle issues of change: what has become of certain ideas and the attitudes connected with them? How have social demands shifted? What has remained? With works by Peter Cook, Colin Fournier, Niels Jonkhans, Archigram, Isa Rosenberger, Mischa Kuball, Arthur Zalewski.

21 Graz Architecture Rationalists, Aesthetes, Gut Instinct Architects, Democrats, Mediacrats

Kunsthaus Graz, Space02 Opening: 23.09.2017 Duration: 23.09.2017-07.01.2018 Curated by Barbara Steiner In cooperation with the steirischer herbst festival and the Künstlerhaus – Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Neue Galerie Graz, HDA and TU Graz.

As part of the exhibition Graz Architecture. Rationalists, Aesthetes, Gut Instinct Architects, Democrats, Mediacrats, works by protagonists of the Graz architectural scene are on show. They all have a direct or indirect connection to the British architects. The title reflects the variety of positions, which are pragmatic, functional, aesthetic, expressionistic and cool. The exhibition is not restricted, however, to the 1960s and 1970s, but is dedicated rather to the development of these ideas. Featuring the works of Eilfried Huth/Günther Domenig, Konrad Frey, Bernhard Hafner, Szyszkowitz-Kowalski, Manfred Wolff- Plottegg, Volker Giencke, Anna Meyer, Tristan Schulze, Škart, Oliver Hangl, Julia Gaisbacher.

22 steirischer herbst 2017 / herbst-Exhibition

Neue Galerie Graz, 1st floor Produced by steirischer herbst festival Opening: 23.09.2017 Duration: 23.09.–03.12.2017 Curated by Luigi Fassi

The steirischer herbst festival presents its key autumn exhibition for 2017 in the Neue Galerie Graz. steirischer herbst 2017 / herbst-Exhibition

Neue Galerie Graz, 1st floor Produced by the Neue Galerie Graz Opening: 23.09.2017 Duration: 23.09.2017–18.02.2018 Curated by Günther Holler-Schuster

The steirischer herbst festival celebrates its 50th version in 2017. To mark this anniversary, the Neue Galerie Graz is offering an overview of its involvement in this important platform of the local art scene, which from the word go has achieved international ranking both in terms of reputation and importance. The contribution made by the Neue Galerie Graz was significant mainly due to the Trigon exhibitions, in which themes around architecture, video art and photography, as well as key positions in Conceptual Art, set new standards in contemporary art. This exhibition is part of a series of reflections, which throw a critical, objective light on the role played by the Neue Galerie as a hub of the avant-garde since the 1960s in the art location of Graz.

23 Victor Hugo – Günter Brus

BRUSEUM, Neue Galerie Graz Opening: 05.10.2017 Duration: 06.10.2017–14.01.2018 Curated by Roman Grabner

Like William Blake, August Strindberg or Günter Brus, Victor Hugo is one of those rare double talents who have achieved works of enduring value in two artistic metiers. During his lifetime he was already highly esteemed for his literature, while his drawings were long known only to a small circle of insiders. It was artists who rediscovered his work and drew attention to it at the beginning of the 20th century, and Günther Brus has also always made reference to it, whether consciously or unconsciously.

24 Artothek Styria 2017

Auditorium 3, Neue Galerie Graz Opening: 04.11.2017 Duration: 05.–26.11.2017 Curated by Gudrun Danzer and Günther Holler-Schuster

The Artothek Styria offers the chance to rent quality fine arts from a museum collection to hang up on one’s own four walls. As part of a month-long exhibition, those interested can reserve works from the Neue Galerie Graz collection and take them home for around 10 months at the end of the exhibition. High-quality works can be found among the potential loans (for example, works in 2016 by Herbert Brandl and Erwin Bohatsch). The Artothek Styria thus aims to contribute to the active dissemination of modern art to the people of this province, and to promote critical engagement with the same.

25 Collected History: Photo Film Sound Open collections

History Museum, 2nd floor Opening: 16.11.2017 Permanent exhibition Curated by Maria Froihofer

Starting with the collection items, we relate the history of the Multimedia Collections (MMC), exploring their changing functions and goals, and giving an idea of the struggle with the material impermanence of the fragile collection objects. Which photographs, films and audio documents were collected and archived? How did the changing missions, interests and activities, collecting passion and research spirit of those responsible shape the history and special character of these collections? What significance do the collections have in the context of a Styrian/Austrian history, what value in the context of the history of media at both the regional and national levels? The exhibition presents the genesis of this regional ‘media-library’ that gathers together some 2.5 million objects.

Styrian Nightscape Photo expedition to Styria by night

History Museum, ground floor Opening: 16.11.2017 Duration: 17.11.2017–February 2018 Curated by Max Wegscheidler and Christoph Pietrucha

The time period between sunset and sunrise is usually described as ‘night’. Night is characterised by darkness, and human perceptions are reduced to black-white in this phase of the day. For most people night is the time of peace and quiet. Contrasting with this, night work and night life are part of urban leisure culture. In this photo-historical, documentary project, we set out to uncover ‘the land at night’.

26 Narrated History

History Museum, Opening: 16.11.2017 Duration: 17.11.2017–15.11.2020 Curated by Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen, Eva Kreissl, Ulrich Becker and Maria Froihofer

In the historical rooms on the second floor of the Palais Herberstein, semi-permanent survey exhibitions will be on show in future on the cultural history of Styria from the High Middle Ages onwards. The concern here is not with a comprehensive review of the region’s history, rather with shedding light on history and society from a variety of angles. This exhibition format is aimed at all those wishing to gain an overview of the area’s history in a short time, yet also definitely tailored to tourists and schoolchildren.

27 Kunstraum Steiermark 2017

Auditorium, Neue Galerie Graz Opening: 07.12.2017 Duration: 08.12.2017–04.02.2018 Curated by Günther Holler-Schuster

The Culture Department of the Province of Styria supports several different studio programmes and stipends for Styrian artists, which take them abroad, or encourage them to set up studios in the province. This Neue Galerie Graz exhibition shows the varied artistic positions with works created in 2017.

28 Brus Collections Exhibition

BRUSEUM, Neue Galerie Graz Curated by Roman Grabner

The BRUSEUM owns the most extensive museum collection on the life and work of the artist in existence, and is dedicated as an institution to the preservation of and research into his work, as well as educating others and presenting the same. The changing selection of collection items in the BRUSEUM’s first room shows the continuity of motives and working processes of his artistic output that spans more than five decades. In 2017 there will be three exhibitions curated by Roman Grabner.

Brus Collection Exhibition 1 – in parallel with Yoshio Nakajima Opening: 06.04.2017 Duration: 07.04.-09.07.2017

Brus Collection Exhibition 2 Opening: 13.07.2017 Duration: 14.07.-24.09.2017

Brus Collection Exhibition 3 – in parallel with Victor Hugo Opening: 05.10.2017 Duration: 06.10.2017-31.01.2018

29 studio

Neue Galerie Graz, Auditorium 3 Curated by Günther Holler-Schuster and Roman Grabner

The studio of the Neue Galerie served from the 1990s to 2010 as a platform for young Austrian artists who were not yet fully established in the art business after graduation, finding themselves at the outset of their career. From 2017 this essential mechanism for the promotion and documentation of young art will be reintroduced in the Joanneum Quarter.

Evamaria Schaller "Don't turn around, don't turn around..." Opening: 10.02.2017 Duration: 11.02.-19.03.2017

David Reumueller Johnny Silver. Superposition Opening: 28.03.2017 Duration: 29.03.-14.05.2017

Susanna Flock Forming Storming Norming Performing Opening: 01.06.2017 Duration: 02.06.-03.09.2017

Veronika Eberhart Opening: 15.09.2017 Duration: 16.09.-29.10.2017

30 Austrian Sculpture Park

Spring Celebration - Artist in Residence 2017: Breath.earth.collective Datum: 21.05.2017 Curated by Elisabeth Fiedler

In the year to come, the Breathe.earth.collective, consisting of Markus Jeschaunig, Karlheinz Boiger, Lisa Maria Enzenhofer, Andreas Goritschnig and Bernhard König, will create a sculpture in the Austrian Sculpture Park; this work, an Artist in Residence project, is in connection with ‘art-nature’ and ‘artificial-nature’. The collective is here concerned with a new form of sculpture, one which can be seen as an experiencable, extended opportunity to connect the production of life-giving air with an artistic setting. The precise formulation arises in a process from which will be created a work that has been specially produced in and for the Austrian Sculpture Park.

Late Summer Celebration – presentation of the 2nd part of the sculpture plamen (ad II), 2016 by Plamen Dejanoff Date: 10.09.2017 Curated by Elisabeth Fiedler

In 2016 the first of two parts of the work plamen (ad II), 2016 by the Bulgarian-Austrian artist Plamen Dejanoff was presented, a work that tackles social, political and economic conditions, questions values, and newly positions and sharpens our awareness of history, language and place. He tells us of networks, opening up new contexts with his art. Thus he quite deliberately had only a part of his work emerge in the park, to be completed in 2017.

In Then Out 2017

In 2014 the students of Tobias Rehberger at the Städelschule in Frankfurt were invited for the Artist in Residence Programme of the Austrian Sculpture Park. The sculpture In Then Out was created, which in its architectural concept encompasses both a processual and participatory approach. Students are now invited annually to engage in dialogue with the sculpture, and to undertake a redesign of the same. After the class of Markus Wilfling at the Ortweinschule (2015) and students of the master’s programme in exhibition design at the FH Joanneum under the guidance of Anke Strittmatter and Erika Thümmel (2016), we have succeeded in attracting for this project Klaus K. Loenhart, Professor for Landscape Architecture at the TU Graz, and his students, for 2017.

31 Projects of the Department of Archaeology & Coin Cabinet

EU Project ‘Monumental Landscapes of the Early Iron Age in the Danube Basin’ (Iron Age Danube)

Exploration of the rich archaeological heritage of the Early Iron Age (Hallstatt Period) using the most modern methods is the goal of the project ‘Iron Age Danube’, undertaken as of January 1st, 2017, by the Universalmuseum Joanneum in collaboration with 11 project partners and 9 associated partners from 5 countries. The activities range from devising an international strategy for supra-regional protection and for the sustainable usage of archaeological landscapes, to archaeological field research with the latest technical devices as part of an international research camp, and to new digital and analogue offerings for tourists in selected micro-regions. These include – besides the most significant Hallstatt Period sites in Hungary, Croatia and – Großklein and Strettweg, the site where the world-famous chariot was found. Iron Age Danube is subsidised within the framework of the EU programme Interreg Danube Transnational Programme with EFRE funds in the amount of € 2,169,200.00

EU project ‘Paleo-landscape of Styria and its biodiversity from prehistory to the discovery of the New World’ (PaleoDiversiStyria)

The project PaleoDiversiStyria uses findings from archaeology and archaeobotany to promote the understanding of the archaeological heritage and agricultural tradition in southern Styria and northern Slovenia. The following measures are planned: 1. Identification of ancient plant species in archaeological contexts. 2. Revitalisation of the cultivation and reutilisation of autochthonous crop species, 3. Development of agricultural products for tourism. PaleoDiversiStyria is subsidised by the EU programme Interreg V-A Slovenia-Austria 2014-2020 with EFRE funds in the amount of € 1,122,725.16.

32 Initial photo material for these projects can be found at the following link: www.museum-joanneum.at/press/Programme17

Contact for enquiries: Mag. Anna Fras, MA, Bakk. Telephone: +43-316/8017-9211 Mobile phone: +43-664/8017-9211 [email protected]

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