Programme Overview 2019

Month Title Page Opening Start End Museum

January 100 Years of Border. An Exhibition in 3 Chapters 100 Years of Border III: 1946–2018. Life at the Border 16 31.01., 7 pm 01.02.2019 19.05.2019 History Museum

February Too Much Is Not Enough! The “Artelier Collection” Donation 8 14.02., 6 pm 15.02.2019 25.08.2019 Neue Galerie Graz Jun Yang. The Artist, the Work, the Exhibition 4 14.02., 7.30 pm 15.02.2019 19.05.2019 Kunsthaus Graz

March Who’s Next? From the ‘Location Nature’ Series 24 03.03.2019 03.03.2019 Natural History Museum/Education Johann Lurf. Earth Series with Laura Wagner and Cavalcade 5 12.03., 7 pm 13.03.2019 22.04.2019 Kunsthaus Graz POP 1900–2000. Popular Music in Styria 17 14.03., 7 pm 15.03.2019 26.01.2020 History Museum World Wood Day 26 20.03. 20.03.2019 23.03.2019 Austrian Open-Air Museum Stübing Incised and Stabbed. The Graphic Works of Günter Brus 12 28.03., 7 pm 29.03.2019 18.08.2019 BRUSEUM, Neue Galerie Graz

April The Petrol Station Myth 20 10.04., 7 pm 11.04.2019 06.01.2020 Folk Life Museum Peak Pioneers! Styrian Expeditions to the Roof of the World 28 13.04., 11 am 13.04.2019 31.10.2019 Schloss Trautenfels Between Dying and Dancing. Tales of the early modern period (Relaunch of the Permanent Exhibition) 14 25.04., 7 pm Ab 26.04.2019 Alte Galerie, Schloss Eggenberg Franz Josef Böhm. Photo Pioneer of the Mürztal 27 27.04., 11 am 27.04.2019 31.10.2019 Rosegger Museum, Krieglach Renate Krammer. slow motion 11 26.04., 7 pm 27.04.2019 16.06.2019 Neue Galerie Graz, studio

May Earth – Water – Fire. Sources of Life and Reservoirs of Knowledge 15 09.05., 7 pm 10.05.2019 31.10.2019 Archaeology Museum, Schloss Eggenberg Hard Work – Joyous Festivities! Work-Life Balance in Earlier Times? 26 19.05., 9 am–4 pm 19.05.2019 31.10.2019 Austrian Open-Air Museum Stübing Spring Celebration 25 19.05., 2–5 pm 19.05.2019 19.05.2019 Austrian Sculpture Park

June Go Jump in a Lake, Styria! 18 06.06., 7 pm 07.06.2019 25.08.2019 History Museum Connected. Peter Kogler with … George Antheil with Friedrich Kiesler with Hedy Lamarr with Fernand Léger with museum in progress with Otto Neurath with Charlotte Perriand with Franz Pomassl with Winfried Ritsch with Franz West ... 6 27.06., 7 pm 28.06.2019 20.10.2019 Kunsthaus Graz

2 Month Title Page Opening Start End Museum

July AWOL – Absent Without Leave. Total Refusal – Digital Diarment Movement (Robin Klengl, Leonhard Müller Michael, Stumpf) 11 03.07., 7 pm 04.07.2019 01.09.2019 Neue Galerie Graz, studio

September Late Summer Celebration 25 08.09., 2–5 pm 08.09.2019 08.09.2019 Austrian Sculpture Park studio 3 11 12.09., 7 pm 13.09.2019 27.10.2019 Neue Galerie Graz, studio Pictures of an Economic History in Styria 19 13.09., 7 pm 14.09.2019 02.02.2020 History Museum International Day of Peace 2019 21 19.09.2019 22.09.2018 Styrian Armoury/Education Alexander Brener and Barbara Schurz 13 20.09., 7 pm 21.09.2019 19.01.2020 BRUSEUM, Neue Galerie Graz Alfred Klinkan Retrospective 9 26.09., 7 pm 27.09.2019 12.01.2020 Neue Galerie Graz

October The Earth’s Thin Skin. Our Soil 23 03.10., 7 pm 04.10.2019 12.07.2020 Natural History Museum CoSA - Center of Science Activities 22 19.10. Ab 19.10.2019 Natural History Museum

November Artothek Styria 2019 10 07.11., 7 pm 08.11.2019 01.12.2019 Neue Galerie Graz, studio Arts Crafts 7 14.11., 7 pm 15.11.2019 16.02.2020 Kunsthaus Graz Promotion Prize of the Province of Styria 11 28.11., 7 pm 29.11.2019 10.03.2020 Neue Galerie Graz

December Art Space Styria 2019 10 11.12., 7 pm 12.12.2019 12.01.2020 Neue Galerie Graz, studio Climate Change and Styria. From the ‘Location Nature’ Series 24 12.12.2019 12.12.2019 Natural History Museum /Education

3 Jun Yang The Artist, the Work, the Exhibition

Opening: 14.02.2019, 7.30 pm Duration: 15.02.–19.05.2019 Curated by Barbara Steiner In cooperation with Art Sonje Center, Seoul, and Neue Galerie Graz

The solo exhibition by Jun Yang is dedicated to fundamental questions of artistic work: what significance do original works, unique pieces, series and reproductions have in art today? How is artistic practice defined when exchanged with others? At the beginning of 2018, The Monograph Project by Jun Yang was published, a monograph totalling six volumes about the artist and his work, which – in a sort of paradoxical reversal – challenges monographic conventions and biography. For the format, cover and even spelling of the artist’s name changes from volume to volume. This evokes various artists, which is precisely what interests Yang: to break the narrative of authentic, brilliant creators – a narrative that has proven particularly well-suited to the branding of an artist and his/her work. The solo exhibition at the Kunsthaus Graz links up to this. The exhibition, like the monograph, becomes itself the subject of artistic investigation. Besides the presentation of Yang’s works, the exhibition reflects authorship, constructions of identity and allocations of roles. In this, cooperation with others plays a special role. Alongside this, from February 15th, 2019, the Neue Galerie Graz addresses issues of the reproducibility of art, the significance of the original work, the one-off work and reproduction, in the exhibition titled Too Much Is Not Enough!

With works by Lee Kit, Paul McCarthy/Mike Kellcey, Michikazu Matsune, Yuki Okumura, Koki Tanaka, Bruce Yonemoto and Maja Vukoje.

4 Johann Lurf Earth Series with Laura Wagner and Cavalcade

Opening: 12.03.2019, 7 pm Duration: 13.03.–22.04.2019 Curated by Katrin Bucher Trantow In cooperation with Diagonale’19

Once again, in 2019, the Kunsthaus Graz is collaborating with the Diagonale, showing an exhibition of Johann Lurf in the Space03. In the previous year he was awarded the Diagonale Prize for Innovative Cinema of the City of Graz, and is designing the trailer for Diagonale’19. Lurf’s works always mean filmic exploration – exploration that will now continue at the Diagonale’19, too. The exhibition in the Kunsthaus is created in collaboration with the artist Laura Wagner.

5 Connected. Peter Kogler with … George Antheil with Friedrich Kiesler with Hedy Lamarr with Fernand Léger with museum in progress with Otto Neurath with Charlotte Perriand with Franz Pomassl with Winfried Ritsch with Franz West …

Opening: 27.06.2019, 7 pm Duration: 28.06.–20.10.2019 Curated by Katrin Bucher Trantow

The exhibition brings together works from the dawn of the century with contemporary works. In a new, immersive work by Peter Kogler, iconic items on loan and archival material from Fernand Léger and Charlotte Perriand, together with the compositions of George Antheil und Franz Pomassl, form a tangible cosmos of architectural and medial space that is at once reproducible, programmed and mysterious. At the centre of the exhibition lies the reflection of the ground-breaking, revolutionary Ballet Mécanique by Fernand Léger and George Antheil. This work, which resonates to the present day, was conceived in the early 1920s as the first Surrealist-Dadaist link between film montage and mechanised music, with the artists Fernand Léger as visual composer, Dudley Murphy as cameraman, and George Antheil as music composer. Its goal was, in the words of Antheil, ‘to make clear to the (present) age both the beauty and danger of its unconscious mechanical philosophy and aesthetic.’ The effect of the piece is hypnotic: the most rapid, mechanically precise rhythms alternate between attacks on the instrument’s keys and terrifying silence.

6 Arts Crafts

Opening: 14.11.2019, 7 pm Duration: 15.11.2019–16.02.2020 Curated by Barbara Steiner

In the last few years, interest on the part of contemporary artists in crafting processes, in experimenting with material and techniques has grown noticeably. The way these artists handle pre-modern, traditional and local knowledge does not isolate, rather it opens up – to other cultures, to modern and contemporary art, to current discourses and digital developments. Culture is understood as a flow of varied, inter-related influences and elements. The significance of craftsmanship as an essential component of cultural identity, and above all the potential of craftwork traditions to create community, is combined with social and economic conditions in a globalised world. With this approach, the artists also challenge – as a kind of side-effect – the ways in which the homeland, people, and folkloristic art and tradition are instrumentalised for political purposes. The works show the extent to which local identification and global developments have long since slid into one another. Moreover, they ask how, given the present economic circumstances, a ‘crafted’ relationship between workers and the objects they work can be conceived and put into practice. This approach not only defies cultural boundaries, it also links up the analogue and digital worlds.

With works by Azra Akšamija, Plamen Dejanoff, Olaf Holzapfel, Jorge Pardo, Slavs and Tatars, Haegue Yang and Johannes Schweiger.

7 Too Much Is Not Enough! The “Artelier Collection” Donation

Opening: 14.02.2019, 6 pm Duration: 15.02.–25.08.2019 Curated by Friedrich Tietjen

In 1985, at the Graz-based company Schilcher & Sohn KG, an in-house production line was created in the relevant department for screen printing, and the working of wood, metal and synthetics. In this way, more than 500 editions were produced of both domestic and international artists, which form the core of the collection of the Edition Artelier. As early as 1998, the Neue Galerie Graz in conjunction with the Galerie & Edition Artelier GmbH presented parts of the editions that had been published until then, in a comprehensive exhibition mounted in the Künstlerhaus Graz. In gratitude for this cooperation, the Artelier gifted a bundle of editions to the Neue Galerie Graz. In 2016, the Edition Artelier ended the production and publishing of editions. So as to guarantee the continuity of the serial art created over 30 years and the documentation of the cultural-historical work of the Edition Artelier, the Artelier Collection GmbH, together with other owners of the artworks, handed over selected objects from this art and documentation collection to the Neue Galerie Graz in the form of a donation made in 2015. The museum will acknowledge this generous gift in 2019 with an exhibition, which will explore, in particular, the significance of serial art, the essence of an ‘art [form] without a unique work’, in the context of such terms as original and copy.

8 Alfred Klinkan Retrospective

Opening: 26.09.2019, 7 pm Duration: 27.09.2019–12.01.2020 Curated by Günther Holler-Schuster

Wilfried Skreiner, at the time Director of the Neue Galerie, defined a group of young artists in the early 1980s, Siegfried Anzinger, Hubert Schmalix, Alois Mosbacher, Josef Kern, Erwin Bohatsch and Alfred Klinkan, whose art he described as ‘New Painting’. The sensuous-narrative painting experience of this generation was seen as a counter-force to Conceptual Art, which was perceived as inimical to the object and exclusively based on the idea of the artwork. Alfred Klinkan died around 25 years ago; in 2020 he would have been 70 years old. He was a pioneer of the ‘New Painting’ movement in Austria, of which he was subsequently a key exponent. In the early 1970s he studied in Vienna at the Academy of Fine Arts under Josef Mikl and Wolfgang Hollegha, focusing on painting, which in times of Performance, Conceptual and the incipient Media Art already seemed anachronistic. The provocative undertone of his early works, in surprising contrast to the apparent naivety of his pictorial language, is explained by the imprint left by the dynamics of 1968, the year of protest. Klinkan concentrated such art trends as Viennese Actionism, the Wirklichkeiten, or Pop Art in general, into something anarchic, autonomous. The ambiguous naivety of his art and the humour associated with it were often transferred to real life, which Klinkan often saw as a story, a comic, or indeed a miracle. Long live Rock ’n’ Roll, long hair, warm beer, and the last ciggie!

9 Artothek Steiermark 2019

Opening: 07.11.2019, 7 pm Duration: 08.11.–01.12.2019 Curated by Günther Holler-Schuster and Gudrun Danzer

The Artothek Steiermark offers art enthusiasts the chance to borrow for private use selected original artworks from the collection at the Neue Galerie Graz. In 2019, it will already be the fourth time that the Arthotek has operated. Some 20 works are available for loan and can be viewed and reserved throughout the one-month exhibition. After the exhibition is over, borrowers can take the reserved artworks away with them, letting their effect sink in at home for a period of eight months. In this way, art found in a museum directly reaches the public.

Art Space Styria 2019

Opening: 11.12.2019, 7 pm Duration: 12.12.2019–12.01.2020 Curated by Günther Holler-Schuster

The cultural office of the Province of Styria undertakes a number of studio programmes and stipends for Styrian artists, which enable these persons to spend time abroad or promote their setting up a studio in Styria. This exhibition in the Neue Galerie Graz shows the various artistic positions with works created in 2018 through 2019.

10 studio series studio 1: 27.04.–16.06.2019 studio 2: 04.07.–01.09.2019 studio 3: 13.09.–27.10.2019 Curated by Günther Holler-Schuster and Roman Grabner

From 1992 to 2010, the studio of the Neue Galerie Graz served as a platform for young Austrian artists at the outset of their career. In 2017 this key instrument for the promotion and presentation of recent art in the Joanneum Quarter was re-introduced. Three studio exhibitions will be shown in 2019 and can be visited free of charge.

Promotion Prize of the Province of Styria for Contemporary Fine Art

Opening: 28.11.2019, 7 pm Duration: 29.11.2019–10.03.2020 Curated by Günther Holler-Schuster

A prize for contemporary art was first created in Styria in 1959: the so-called ‘Joanneum Art Prize’ was awarded up until 1967 to the major representatives of Styrian modernism. In 1968 this award was re-named the ‘Art Prize of the Province of Styria’ and from 1983, the ‘Promotion Prize for Contemporary Fine Arts’ with an age limit imposed on younger artists, until 1999, at which point it was lifted. Since then, all artists who were born in Styria and have their main residence here can take part. A competition is held, at which to begin with an art expert with international experience curates an exhibition from all the works submitted. In a further phase of the competition, prizes and stipends are awarded from the positions represented in the exhibition.

11 Incised and Stabbed The Graphic Works of Günter Brus

Opening: 28.03.2019, 7 pm Duration: 29.03.–18.08.2019 Curated by Roman Grabner

Brus has said of himself that he is no great innovator of the graphic arts. He has worked consistently in the conventional techniques of dry point, lithography and screen printing. The appeal for him was in the various forms of expression that each process brought with it: ‘For me, it’s purely about the artistic intensity of the injury done to the given metal. Perhaps the term “copper murderer” would sometimes be appropriate.’ Brus has worked the metal plate with steel needles, penknives, scissors and wire brushes, practically attacked it. The Actionist injury to the surface and the restless work, to the point of exhaustion, is shown in virtually paradigmatic fashion in the sheets shown in the exhibition. As with his drawings on paper, Brus always operates directly into the plate, without sketches or preliminary drawings. He has remained true to direct art since the early Actions. Incised and Stabbed is the first complete collection of Günter Brus’ graphic works: from the early works in spirit printing processes for the invitation to the Direct Art Festival (1967), via the stencilling and screen printing of the 1970s, to the large etchings of the 2000s. Most of the works come from the BRUSEUM collection.

12 Alexander Brener and Barbara Schurz

Opening: 20.09.2019, 7 pm Duration: 21.09.2019–19.01.2020 Curated by Roman Grabner

Alexander Brener, together with Oleg Kulik, belongs to that generation of Russian performance artists who emerged following the demise of the Soviet Union, and who were already able to operate ‘freely’ in the public arena. Jointly with Kulik, Brener acted as a naked, wild dog, who once bit various curators while chained up. Brener achieved international renown in 1997, when he sprayed a green dollar sign onto Kazimir Malevich’s white painting Suprematism 1920–1927 in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Despite his objection that it was an artistic performance, his protest against corruption and the commercialisation of the art market ended with a two-year prison sentence. Together with his Austrian partner Barbara Schurz, he has not only published a Manifesto of Spitting; also, in recent years, the artists’ duo Brener & Schurz has repeatedly taken as a theme the power strategies and mechanisms of exclusion employed in the art market and in broader society, through performances – some of them fierce. Alongside these, he has created splendidly illustrated books, whose protagonists are apparently leading failed existences, with no place, it seems, in a society dominated by conformist structures. Moreover, Brener is highly regarded as a poet, not only in Russia.

13 Between Dying and Dancing Tales of the early modern period

Opening: 25.04.2019, 7 pm Duration: from 26.04.2019 Relaunch of the Permanent Collection Curated by Ulrich Becker and Barbara Kaiser

Referred to as the early modern period, the centuries between 1500 and 1800 mark the transition from the Christian world view of the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment on the eve of the Modern Age: as old certainties dwindled, the search for new ways towards the future was fraught with conflict. The epoch is often associated with Renaissance and Baroque splendour. Yet on closer inspection, this dazzling façade also reveals a blood-soaked litany of endless wars and bitter distress. As if guided by the unsteady hand of the goddess Fortuna, the dual countenance of this epoch is marked by religious struggle, by death and by the enjoyment of life, by hunger and abundance. In this new presentation, the art treasures of the Alte Galerie – enriched by precious loans from the Kaiserschild Foundation – convey an overview of a fascinating age caught between splendour and misery. They enable us to recognize the ups and downs which have shaped our past and continue to resonate right up to the present day.

14 Earth – Water – Fire Sources of Life and Reservoirs of Knowledge

Opening: 09.05.2019, 7 pm Duration: 10.05.–31.10.2019 Curated by Marko Mele, Sarah Kiszter and Daniel Modl

The exhibition Earth – Water – Fire. Sources of Life and Reservoirs of Knowledge presents the most important results from the EU project ‘PalaeoDiversiStyria’. As part of the project, the habitat that people have created for themselves on the territory that is now Styria and north-eastern Slovenia is explored from the perspective of archaeology and botany. At the centre of the show is the sensational find during the construction of the Koralm railway of a well in Wettmannstätten in western Styria. It is not only the well preserved well case from the Bronze Age (1600–800 BCE) that has caused amazement, but also the contents with which the well is filled up, which represent a kind of ‘database’ of many flora and fauna in Styria. Archaeobotanists who are investigating these carbonised remains of plants have thus been able to reconstruct the agriculture and nutritional habits of people living 3,500 years ago. The exhibition shows visitors the possibilities of modern archaeological and archaeobotanical research, delivering new findings on the Bronze Age settlement in Styria and placing it in the context of challenges faced in terms of water provision, agriculture and present-day nutrition.

15 100 Years of Border. An Exhibition in 3 Chapters 100 Years of Border III: 1946–2018. Life at the Border

Opening: 31.01.2019, 7 pm Duration: 01.02.–19.05.2019 Curated by Helmut Konrad

Based on private and regional photo collections, audio documents and films, the History Museum is showing a series of three exhibitions on the division of Styria as a result of the First World War, as well as the social, cultural and economic consequences of this border demarcation up to the present day. Under the title Life at the Border, the third and final part of the exhibition series is devoted to what has permeated – and what has not – through the border from 1946 onwards right up to our times. Besides the fall of the Iron Curtain, the independence and accession to the EU of Slovenia are taken as themes. The perceived melting away of the border is looked at, as is its temporary return in 2015-16. Bad Radkersburg, and in particular Spielfeld, are presented as key crossing points for thousands of refugees seeking to escape.

16 POP 1900–2000 Popular Music in Styria

Opening: 14.03.2019, 7 pm Duration: 15.03.2019–26.01.2020 Curated by Maria Froihofer, David Reumüller and Karl Wratschko

Which band from Gradenberg once managed to outclass even Elvis Presley in the Austrian hit parade? And what was the Styrian answer to Woodstock? POP 1900-2000 takes popular music in Styria in the 20th century as its theme. The focus here is on Styrian protagonists as well as bands, their music, and the venues where it was performed and heard; also covered are the lifestyles they led and worlds they inhabited, examined in the interplay between and context of a (Styrian) history of events and the media, as well as everyday culture. Thus, the exhibition offers insight into Styrian music-making in the entertainment sector, creating bridges between cultural and social developments, focusing on what is little known, or meanwhile forgotten, touching on a whole group of music genres and categories that are not clearly delineated. The story is told using diverse photographs, film and video recordings, as well as technical devices and artefacts relating to the history of media, as well as, of course, the music itself and those who ‘made’ it.

17 Go Jump in a Lake, Styria!

Opening: 06.06.2019, 7 pm Duration: 07.06.–25.08.2019 Curated by Astrid Aschacher

Summer, sun and the fun of swimming are terms hardwired into our imagination. For well over a century, people – depending on their time available and financial means – have responded to rising temperatures by heading for man-made river pools, quarry ponds and bathing lakes, for the sea and (in the city) for outdoor pools. The History Museum is devoting an exhibition to bathing culture in the 20th century. Over 130 sq. metres we show what was used to promote trips to water, and what was taken home from there: travel guides, brochures, adverts, magazines, photos, albums, postcards, slides and holiday films. They tell the story of summer fun through the decades, offering a living image of an important element of leisure culture.

18 Pictures of an Economic History in Styria

Opening: 13.09.2019, 7 pm Duration: 14.09.2019–02.02.2020 Curated by Walter Feldbacher

This exhibition is devoted to ‘work and economic activity’ in the regions of Styria from the mid-19th century to the turn of the millennium. Starting from historical photo, film and audio documents from the various company archives, the show takes a look at both leading Styrian industrial businesses and traditional small and medium-sized firms, as well as at long since ‘vanished’ trades and sectors of the economy. The goal is to trace through them the development of crafts and trade, industrialisation and automatisation, changes in labour-law conditions, but also the history of ‘after work’ and ‘work-life balance’. The focus is as much on Styrians in working garments, ‘blue-collar workers’ and ‘smelters’ at the steel furnaces, miners at the lignite coalfields, ‘women sorters’ at the conveyor belt as well as wainwrights, coopers, milliners and shavers, as it is on oil drilling tests, the first Tetra Pak filling machine, or the development of a solar-powered car ‘made in Styria’.

19 The Petrol Station Myth

Opening: 10.04.2019, 7 pm Duration: 11.04.2019–06.01.2020 Curated by Helmut Eberhart and Eva Kreissl

Petrol stations provide us with more than just petrol. They convey feelings about life that have continuously changed throughout their 100-years’ or more history. On the one hand they have always been seen as a symbol for mobility, while on the other hand their functions have become increasingly varied in recent years. This exhibition follows the trail of the petrol station from the very outset, via technical and architectural innovations, up to its role as a substitute shop and local centre of communication following the disappearance of grocers and inns. Petrol stations are thus becoming more and more a meeting point for people from the vicinity. This special exhibition continues long-standing successful cooperation between the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Graz and the Folk Life Museum.

20 ... peace has broken out ... Programme to mark International Day of Peace 2019

19.–22.09.2019 Curated by Anita Niegelhell

We all know the expression ‘war has broken out’, and what it means when things reach that point. Less well known and less common, by contrast, is the opposite notion: ‘peace has broken out’. What is behind this? Carelessness, frivolity or indifference? Or is it to do with our being essentially more interested in conflictual events and disputes? How peaceful are we humans? In the opinion of the American political scientist Judith Shklar: ‘If there is no authority to protect people from their own kind, then their destructive instinct cannot be kept in check.’ It is the task of culture and society not only to keep this instinct in check, but to transform it. So, what are the conditions of constructive transformation and how are they embedded in our culture? Based on our educational work and an always highly ambivalent fascination with the historical weapons in the Styrian Armoury, we shall be leading daily discussions on the themes of war and conflict. Thus, centred around the UN’s International Day of Peace, peace is shifted to the core of our activities – through discussions, workshops, and with music. In this way, we contribute to the ‘outbreak of peace’ – one outbreak after another, for many such are needed.

21 CoSA – Center of Science Activities

Opening: 19.10.2019 Developed and planned by Graz’ Children’s Museum FRida & freD and the Universalmuseum Joanneum

The Universalmuseum Joanneum and Graz’ Children’s Museum FRida & freD have jointly created the CoSA – Center of Science Activities, a science centre that stands for easily accessible, interactive and entertaining education for teenagers, on technology and science. Over almost 1,000 sq. metres on the first floor of the Natural History Museum in the Joanneum Quarter, the focus is on participation. Each area of knowledge is conveyed and designed in different ways, ranging from a ‘Cabinet of Knowledge’ about medical research, to the possibility of assuming the role of ‘Mobility Developer’. In ‘Energy and Resources’, sustainability is treated in a playful manner. A journey into the unknown of ‘Space and Deep Ocean’ stimulates visions and dreams; the ‘Maker Space’ is on offer to carry out one’s own ideas. Over 250 sq. metres, augmented reality, at ‘AR Story-telling: Science Stories – Experience Knowledge’, shows a completely new approach to scientific and technical themes. Young programmers can apply and pass on their knowledge in the ‘Community Area’. A ‘Workshop Space’ makes it possible with guidance to solve scientific and technical tasks. The historical show mine turns into an ‘Escape Room’, in which past, present and future resources play a role.

The Science Center CoSA is thus a key building block for the future-oriented factors of research, innovation and technology in Styria, reinforcing the province as a business location for the long term.

22 The Earth’s Thin Skin Our Soil

Opening: 03.10.2019, 7 pm Duration: 04.10.2019–12.07.2020 Curated by Ursula Stockinger

The international touring exhibition The Earth’s Thin Skin – Our Soil from Museum Görlitz (Senckenberg, Germany) helps visitors understand the fascinating diversity of life in soil, and its functions. An abundance of organisms inhabits the ‘earth’s thin skin’: worms, mites, springtails, and countless other animals which, together with bacteria and fungi, ensure fertile soil. Their activity forms the basis for plant growth and thus for the usage of soil by humans. The exhibition presents the great range of soil inhabitants, their way of life and function in the nutrient cycle. Moreover, visitors receive information about how our soil comes into existence, its variety, and the threats it faces. They also learn how soil can be protected and utilised in a sustainable way.

23 Who’s Next? From the ‘Location Nature’ Series

03.03.2019, Natural History Museum Curated by Michael Pinter

The Natural History Museum and the protection of species: a connection which, from 2018 onwards as part of the Citizen Science Projects, will be acted upon more outwardly than was previously the case. Every March 3rd – World Wildlife Day – the Natural History Museum jointly with its partners will focus on one threatened species. It shows how a creature ends up on the Red List of endangered species, and takes steps in the right direction. Not only in far-off lands do species leave the Red List on the wrong side; here at home, this happens, too. For 2019, the nature education team, jointly with scientists from the Department of Nature Studies, have chosen as their group wild bees in Austria. Let’s all support these species, providing them with a habitat! Let’s together move in the right direction, for every single one of us can make a contribution! Anyone who can provide a fitting place will receive a suitable ‘insect hotel’ as well as information on the animal and its habitat. The first 100 participants are guaranteed a place.

Climate Change and Styria From the ‘Location Nature’ Series

12.12.2019, Natural History Museum Curated by Michael Pinter and Markus Rieser

Its consequences can already be felt and are uncontested in the scientific literature – we’re talking about climate change. The Natural History Museum will pick up the theme as part of the ‘Location Nature’ series. In collaboration with experts from important research institutions, the City of Graz and the Province of Styria, this global development will be examined with particular focus on implications for Graz and Styria. The Natural History Museum will thus become a place of information, exchange of ideas, and enlightenment. Questions from the wider public will be answered here, too. What can we expect in future, and what opportunities will arise if we act in time?

24 Spring Celebration 19.05.2019, 2 – 5 pm Curated by Elisabeth Fiedler

Artist in Residence 2019: Jun Yang The Emperor’s Ice Every year the Austrian Sculpture Park invites national and international artists as well as classes of art students to enter into a dialogue with the special circumstances in the Sculpture Park, and to develop works either jointly or alongside one another. Jun Yang was awarded the Artist in Residence prize at the Austrian Sculpture Park for 2019. Starting from the myth that Marco Polo brought back to Europe from his trips to China knowledge about how to make ice and preserve it in summer, the artist reconstructs this traditional method. An ice block was already buried in the Austrian Sculpture Park in November 2018, which will be dug up again at the Spring Celebration on May 19th, 2019. Can the method from ancient China still work today?

Late Summer Celebration 08.09.2019, 2 – 5 pm Curated by Elisabeth Fiedler

The Late Summer Celebration once again invites you to join in a relaxed afternoon of guided tours, a kids’ programme, music and culinary delights.

25 Hard Work – Joyous Festivities! Work-Life Balance in Earlier Times? Special Focus 2019

Stübinger Kirtag: 19.05.2019, 9 am – 4 pm Duration: 19.05.–31.10.2019

Taking a journey through time throughout Austria’s provinces, the 100 or so historical rural buildings of the Austrian Open-Air Museum Stübing tell fascinating stories of building, living, working, and celebrating – the life of the rural population in former times. Thematically the main focus in 2019 is on the farmer’s working year, its customs, festivities and celebrations. Hard work, and the way it was structured by customs and festivities, ensured a balanced relationship between tough daily existence and leisure. This interplay – for example, during harvest-time, in the spinning rooms, or the practice of driving cattle up and down the mountains, as well as the mainly church-based customs throughout the year – is illustrated for visitors in this special exhibition. The interactive show for both young and old located on the museum grounds is added to by special events and educational programmes. The start is celebrated on May 19th, 2019 at the large Stübinger Kirtag (Stübing Fair).

World Wood Day 2019 20.–23.03.2019

On World Wood Day some 400 people from up to 150 countries come together – for example, artists, craftsmen and scientists. For the host country, this is a chance to present the significance of the raw material wood, as well as the domestic forestry and timber industry. Not least of all, the high number of international guests makes it possible to learn about the fascinating world of wood usage as practised by other cultures. At the same time, the event provides an important boost for tourism and business in the region. Under the motto CHANGE, the World Wood Day 2019 shows that the challenges of an increasingly changing world can be overcome in the long term by intertwining tradition and innovation. In 2019, the World Wood Day 2019 will be organised in Austria for the first time by the World Wood Day Foundation in association with the Austrian Open-Air Museum in Stübing, and the Institute for Wood Technology and Renewable Raw Materials at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. The project is concluded with a presentation of works, including concerts in the Stefaniesaal in Graz.

26 Franz Josef Böhm Photo Pioneer of the Mürztal

Opening: 27.04.2019, 11 am Duration: 27.04.–31.10.2019 Curated by Bianca Russ-Panhofer

The actor and keen amateur photographer Franz Josef Böhm took advantage of a guest performance in Mürzzuschlag to produce, from nearby Krieglach and Alpl, photos of the region now known as the ‘Waldheimat’ (Forest Home). Here he met the art and culture aficionado Tony Schruf, who, with the assistance of Peter Rosegger, was able to persuade him to give up his acting career and settle down in Mürzzuschlag as a photographer. In this role, he documented the continually changing landscape in the wake of industrialisation, the hunting expedition of Emperor Franz Josef with the Russian Tsar Nicholas II in Mürzsteg, and the ‘Nordic Winter Games’ that took place in Mürzzuschlag in 1904. The special exhibition sets out to show the varied life of the art and culture enthusiast Franz Josef Böhm, from actor to photographer, autograph collector and museum founder. Special consideration is given to the photographic depiction of the agricultural and socio-economic changes that occurred in the Mürztal.

27 Peak Pioneers! Styrian Expeditions to the Roof of the World

Opening: 13.04.2019, 11 am Duration: 13.04.–31.10.2019 Curated by Robert Schauer

Austria is a nation of mountaineers – yet many of the most thrilling alpine stories do not necessarily come from the alpine region. In the last 200 years the mountain summits of the world have been conquered and Styrian mountaineers were actively involved in this history of expeditions. One high point in Styria’s alpine history was written 40 years ago: the first Austrians stood on the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest! Robert Schauer from Graz, along with Wolfgang Nairz and Horst Bergmann from Innsbruck, were among the first Austrians to climb the ‘roof of the world’ on May 3rd, 1978. Trips to far-off destinations was not only to do with sports. An ‘expedition’ always meant generating knowledge as well, and documenting the same. The exhibition shows the expeditions made by Styrians who tackled Asia’s highest peaks. The adventurous tales of climbing come to life through a multimedial presentation of historical and present-day documentaries, combined with original objects on display.

28 Elevate Festival 2019: Truth

Duration: 27.02.–03.03.2019

After many years of cooperation, to mark the 15th anniversary of Elevate Festival, we are particularly keen to participate in two major art projects, as these serve different levels of contemporary art and are aimed at both an analogue and a digital public. We therefore support the art programme at the Elevate Festival 2019 as a meta-level for the discourse programme.

Hans Schabus – Semmering

Semmering

The municipality of Semmering is located in two provinces – Styria and Lower Austria. At the instigation of Art in Public Space Styria and Art in Public Space Lower Austria, and in cooperation with the municipalities of Semmering and Spital am Semmering, the artist Hans Schabus has been invited to develop a work of art on and in the border region of the two provinces.

29 Wies Municipality Roundabout Competition

Deadline for submissions: 10.03.2019, 4 pm

The municipality of Wies and the Institute for Art in Public Space Styria have invited five artists to devise an innovative installation/sculpture for a roundabout in Wies, as part of a competition. The unique oval shape of the roundabout island with a surface area of 750 sq. metres differs significantly from usual roundabouts. The environment surrounding it is also very complex, as each of the three visual axes produces different situations. The challenges for accomplishing an exciting artwork in summer 2019 are great and the municipality of Wies is greatly interested in an innovative and unique idea.

Aflenz Memorial Project – Milica Tomič

Conference: 08.–09.11.2019

The Aflenz Memorial Project has the goal of developing, planning and carrying out a memorial on the grounds of the former Aflenz satellite concentration camp in Aflenz an der Sulm in south Styria. The re-enactment of familiar modes of thinking that determines a large number of memorials, monuments and museums seems inadequate for a contemporary approach to the culture of remembrance. As part of the project, a new surrounding area will be created, in which history, memory and knowledge remain alive and are perpetuated through the life and practice of all those who live in, visit, or are interested in the place.

The Aflenz Memorial Project consists of 1. the place, 2. the living construction materials at the place, 3. a glossary specific to the location, and 4. the discourse. Alongside carrying out scientific work, the five equal project partners – Milica Tomic (IZK), Coop-EB, Bildungshaus Retzhof, the Municipality of Wagna and Art in Public Space in Styria – will hold a conference on the theme and location in the Joanneum Quarter (8.-9.11.2019).

30 Transborders

Opening: Summer/Autumn 2019

A project of the Institute for Art in Public Space Styria in cooperation with the Pavelhaus, Bad Radkersburg. Further project partners: the Municipality of Mureck, the Municipality of St. Veit in south Styria, the Municipality of Klöch, Bad Radkersburg Customs Office, the Society for Cultural Policy, the Municipality of St. Anna.

Transborders is a trans-disciplinary art project in public space, which engages with the situation, stories and myths along the border of Austria and Slovenia in south Styria. The project is located along the Slovenian border with the rivers Mur and Kutschenitza, from Spielfeld to St. Anna. The project is occasioned by the Peace Treaty of St. Germain of 1919, which laid down the new borders after the First World War and was signed on September 10th, 1919.

Residence programme: 12 scholarship holders including symposia and presentations of ideas in the Pavelhaus (April 2019, 3-4 weeks) Transborder: interdisciplinary performance and music festival in public space. Locations along the River Mur in Slovenia and Austria (August 2019, 3-4 days).

31 Initial photo material for these projects can be found at the following link: www.museum-joanneum.at/press/Programme19

For any inquiries, please contact: Anna Fras: +43-664/8017-9211 Julia Aichholzer: +43-664/8017-9213 [email protected]

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