Programme Overview 2018 (chronological)

Month Title Page Opening Begin End Museum

January Shirin Neshat. Frauen in Gesellschaft 8 17.01., 7pm 18.01.2018 22.04.2018 Neue Galerie Graz Bertl & Adele. Two Children from Graz in the Holocaust 15 25.01., 7 pm 26.01.2018 27.12.2020 History Museum Dejan Marković. Shape of Things Before My Eyes 12 26.01., 7 pm 27.01.2018 04.03.2018 Neue Galerie Graz, studio

February Peter Rosegger. Forest Home and a Changing World 16 08.02., 7 pm 09.02.2018 06.01.2019 History Museum Haegue Yang: VIP´s Union – Phase II, Surrender 4 14.02., 7 pm 15.02.2018 02.04.2018 Kunsthaus Graz

March The Drawing Obsession 13 01.03., 7 pm 02.03.2018 02.09.2018 BRUSEUM, Neue Galerie Graz Who’s Next? From the Series 'Schauplatz Natur' 20 03.03.2018 03.03.2018 Natural History Museum / Education Hotspot Mur. Concealed Emeralds 18 08.03., 7 pm 09.03.2018 09.12.2018 Natural History Museum DASCHNER 12 09.03., 7 pm 10.03.2018 15.04.2018 Neue Galerie Graz, studio Rebel with a Vision. Vjenceslav Richter Retrospective 9 22.03., 7 pm 23.03.2018 02.09.2018 Neue Galerie Graz Archduke Johann. The world of Styrian iron 21 23.03., 7 pm 24.03.2018 31.10.2018 Agriculture Museum Schloss Conflicting Faiths. Art in Graz during the Counter-Reformation Already running 2017 23.03.2018 31.10.2018 Alte Galerie “Whom Does the Großglockner Belong to?” 22 24.03., 11 am 24.03.2018 31.10.2018 Rosegger Museum Krieglach God and the World. What do we Believe in? Already running 2017 24.03.2018 04.11.2018 Schloss Trautenfels

April The Impact of Passarowitz. 300 Years of Continuity in Europe 24 05.04., 7 pm 06.04.2018 04.11.2018 Styrian Armoury Faith Love Hope. 800 Years of the Graz-Seckau Diocese 5 12.04., 6 pm 13.04.2018 26.08.2018 Kunsthaus Graz 100 Years of Border. An exhibition in 3 Chapters 100 Years Border I: 1900–1918. The Period before Demarcation 17 18.04., 7 pm 19.04.2018 02.09.2018 History Museum Yasaman Hasani. LeftOver 12 19.04., 7 pm 20.04.2018 03.06.2018 Neue Galerie Graz, studio Presence and Appearance 27 21.04., 11 am 21.04.2018 04.11.2018 Schloss Trautenfels My portraIt and YOU. An Exhibition for Young People 23 26.04., 7 pm 27.04.2018 31.10.2018 Schloss Eggenberg

May Archaeology Museum, Schloss Razor sharp. 6000 years chert mining in Rein near Graz 25 17.05., 7 pm 18.05.2018 31.10.2018 Eggenberg Female Slaves of Virtue. Ladies' Orders in Old 26 17.05., 7 pm 18.05.2018 31.10.2018 Coin Cabinet, Schloss Eggenberg Spring Celebration 28 27.05., 2 pm 27.05.2018 27.05.2018 Austrian Sculpture Park

2 Month Title Page Opening Begin End Museum

June Nicole Prutsch. Beyond the measuring principle 12 14.06., 7 pm 15.06.2018 19.08.2018 Neue Galerie Graz, studio Art Controversies 10 14.06., 7 pm 15.06.2018 31.03.2019 Neue Galerie Graz Musger Motion Blur – Clemens Luser 29 29.06. Art in Public Space Inverting Battlefields – For a Borderless Future 29 June 2018 Art in Public Space

August Susanne Schuda. You need Therapy! 12 07.09., 7 pm 08.09.2018 21.10.2018 Neue Galerie Graz, studio

September Late Summer Celebration 28 09.09., 2 pm 09.09.2018 09.09.2018 Austrian Sculpture Park 100 Years of Border. An Exhibition in 3 Chapters 100 Years of Border II: 1919–1945. Life at the Border 17 13.09., 7 pm 14.09.2018 24.02.2019 History Museum World Peace Day 2018. Action Days and Programme 24 20.09.2018 22.09.2018 ZH / MfG / VKM / Education Congo Stars 6 22.09., 11 am 22.09.2018 27.01.2019 Kunsthaus Graz As if with the Scalpel. The Actionist Drawings of Günter Brus 14 27.09., 7 pm 28.09.2018 27.01.2019 BRUSEUM, Neue Galerie Graz COMRADE CONRADE. Democracy and Peace on the Street 30 September 2018 Art in Public Space

October Hrdlicka/Martinz. „Call for Mistrust“ 11 04.10., 7 pm 05.10.2018 06.01.2019 Neue Galerie Graz

November Artothek 2018 12 08.11., 7 pm 09.11.2018 02.12.2018 Neue Galerie Graz, studio BIG WIRBEL 7 09.11.2018 11.11.2018 Kunsthaus Graz / Education

December Art Space Styria 2018. Stipend Awardees 12 06.12., 6 pm 07.12.2018 17.03.2019 Neue Galerie Graz, studio Climate Change and Styria. From the Series 'Schauplatz Natur' 20 12.12.2018 12.12.2018 Natural History Museum / Education

Science Center 19 Spring 2019 Natural History Museum

3 Haegue Yang: VIP´s Union Phase II, Surrender

Opening: 14.02.2018, 7 pm Duration: 15.02.–02.04.2018 Curated by Barbara Steiner

VIP’s Union enters its second phase in February 2018: the furniture which over the last nine months has been available for use throughout the Kunsthaus is now changing its status and will be on show in a spatial setting in Space02 designed by Haegue Yang. In June 2017, the Korean artist had asked ‘very important persons’ from the city of Graz and the province of Styria to submit a table or chair of their own choice. In total 100 from 137 people agreed to the request, with 143 furniture items being handed to the Kunsthaus. The Kunsthaus Graz initiated a radical step with VIP’s Union by having all the furniture in the building replaced by the loaned pieces for the duration of the project. Thus, the decisions made by the loaners and their generosity significantly helped shape the appearance of the institution in recent months. The question as to who is an important person in what context was answered differently in the course of the work, depending on the location and institution. VIP’s Union also produces a portrait of a particular place and reflects the relationship between private loaners as well as those institutions issuing invitations. To mark the presentation of VIP’s Union in Graz, all realizations to date of VIP’s Union will now be gathered together and presented in a publication.

4 Faith Love Hope 800 Years of the Graz-Seckau Diocese

Opening: 12.04.2018, 6 pm Duration: 13.04.–26.08.2018 Curated by Katrin Bucher Trantow, Alois Kölbl, Johannes Rauchenberger and Barbara Steiner

An exhibition to mark ‘800 Years of the Graz-Seckau Diocese’ together with KULTUM – the Minorites’ Cultural Centre. In cooperation with the Alte Galerie, the Folk Life Museum and the Diocese Museum of Graz.

Even today, church and art have more in common than it may seem at first glance: both help shape society, create social identity and provoke discussions of the same. The exhibition seeks out possible connections between temporal and secular zones, it explores forms of artistic engagement with images and values forged by Christianity. Using specific projects that deal with museums and church institutions in situ, the exhibition plumbs a rich heritage of church-created traditions, throwing light on current social challenges. What duties do the divine virtues of faith, love and hope demand these days of a society so varied in thought and faith? With the works of some 30 artists and with projects by Maja Bekan, Thomas Bayrle, Birgit Jürgenssen, Kris Martin, Muntean/Rosenblum, Slavs and Tatars, Karol Radziszewski, Danh Vo among others.

5 Congo Stars

Opening: 22.09.2018, 11 am Duration: 22.09.2018–27.01.2019 Curated by Sammy Baloji, Bambi Ceuppens, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Günther Holler-Schuster and Barbara Steiner In cooperation with the Afrika Museum in Tervuren and the Kunsthalle Tübingen.

In the words of Congolese painter Chéri Samba: ‘This painting comes from the people, concerns the people, is aimed at the people.’ He and other artists are important chroniclers of everyday life and political events in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The exhibition Congo Stars shows the wealth, special features and lines of tradition of locally oriented, popular painting from the 1960s to the present day from the Africa Museum in Tervuren and from Austrian collections. The Congolese writer resident in Graz, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, created an imaginary location in 2016 by the name of Tram 83. While this place proceeds from the reality of Congolese cities, it could nonetheless be almost anywhere – including Graz. This book forms the starting point for the Congo Stars exhibition. This connects recent contemporary art from the Congo and representatives of ‘Art Populaire’ to a similarly imaginary panorama of social, political, religious and other dynamics. Tram 83 and Congo Stars merge into one delirium as it were – the visual power of pictures, the driving pulse of the Congolese rumba.

6 BIG WIRBEL

09.–11.11.2018 Curated by Monika Holzer-Kernbichler

The BIG WIRBEL takes place once a year, lasts two to three days, and focuses on material and technology – each one with fascinating links to current exhibitions in the Kunsthaus Graz, whose contents are thereby expanded, stimulating visitors to participate and reflect. In 2018 the connection will be to the Congo Stars exhibition. At the core is a varied, visitor-friendly programme, which promotes reflection and discussion on subjects which arise from the exhibition context. Numerous stations throughout the exhibition invite visitors to try things out, take part, play along, and watch.

7 Shirin Neshat Women in Society

Opening: 17.01.2018, 7 pm Duration: 18.01.–22.04.2018 Curated by Holger Kube Ventura; coordination on site: Günther Holler-Schuster In cooperation with Kunsthalle Tübingen

Shirin Neshat (born 1957) occupies a central role in the discourse on relations between the East and the West: her photographs and videos revolve around the situation of women in societies shaped by Islam, and the contradictions arising between western and oriental cultural traditions. The review exhibition in the Neue Galerie Graz brings together important works from all Shirin Neshat’s creative periods. The exhibition title Frauen in Gesellschaft (Women in Society) addresses two themes constantly recurring in the artist’s œuvre: the role of the woman in Iran, and the traumatic impact of diasporic experiences which can shape a woman for the rest of her life and in the society in which she finds herself from then on.

8 Rebel with a Vision Vjenceslav Richter Retrospective

Opening: 22.03.2018, 7 pm Duration: 23.03.–02.09.2018 Curated by Vesna Mestric, co-curated by Gudrun Danzer In cooperation with the MSU / Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb

This retrospective shows Vjenceslav Richter’s architectural and artistic work from 1947 to 2002 in the context of European art history. Richter’s work has never presented in its entirety to date, only partially in the form of solo exhibitions. Single graphic works were exhibited, however, in many group- and theme-related exhibitions, both here in Austria and abroad. Richter’s works were frequently on show in Graz, as part of trigon 67, trigon 75, a solo show, and numerous collection exhibitions, in which his works from the Neue Galerie’s collections were shown. The starting point for Richter’s work is the synthesis and synthetical approach that was woven into every segment of his work, into the sphere of the theoretical thinking, and into his experimental research activity. Here, this process of exploring the synthetical potential in the area of fine arts is examined. It shows an overview of Richter’s works – from the first architectural blue phases for exhibition pavilions to the painting and sculpture, to his architecture and to visionary urban-based projects. Works are shown from the Richter collection, from several regional museum collections, as well as from private collections.

9 Art Controversies

Opening: 14.06.2018, 7 pm Duration: 15.06.2018-31.03.2019 Curated by Peter Peer

Long before the term ‘contemporary art’ was considered to be a synonym for progressive, provocative, challenging or elitist, artists who took new paths were subject to intense criticism. They triggered controversies that reflected various ideologies, were celebrated by one person, condemned by the next. Thus, the public and critics have always determined the success or failure of a given artist. With this exhibition, the Neue Galerie Graz shows the polarity in which ‘contemporary’ art has always moved, based on works from its collection ranging from the 19th century through to the present day. It prompts us to consider art ‘critically’, and its critics, too.

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10 Alfred Hrdlicka / Fritz Martinz „Call for Mistrust“

Opening: 04.10.2018, 7 pm Duration: 05.10.2018–06.01.2019 Curated by Angelika Katzlberger and Günther Holler-Schuster

The Suschnigg donation has ensured that a large bundle of works by Alfred Hrdlicka has entered the Neue Galerie Graz collection – sculptures as well as graphic works. Hrdlicka’s work, which can be categorised as expressive Realism, takes creatureliness as its starting point, as well as existentialism and strong social awareness. Hrdlicka himself has seen his work as close to Socialist Realism. Alongside Georg Eisler and Fritz Martinz, he belongs to the realists of the post-war era, who combined social dynamics and utopias with the trauma of the war just ending. Fritz Martinz (1924, Bruck a. d. Mur – 2002, Vienna) was a friend of Hrdlicka’s. They also form the core of a realistic art in Austria that very much proceeds from anti-fascism and the experience of the war. Physical violence can be found explicitly and fundamentally in both oeuvres. Martinz is the equivalent for painting of Hrdlicka to sculpture, to put it simply. He is almost unknown in Styria, an added attraction for showing his work in the Neue Galerie Graz, all the more so when one has so extensive a group of works at one’s disposal as those of Alfred Hrdlicka. This show can also be seen in 2018 as a memorial exhibition, when viewed in the context of the Nazi rule beginning in Austria 80 years ago.

11 Artothek Styria 2018

Opening: 08.11.2018, 7 pm Duration: 09.11.–02.12.2018 Curated by Günther Holler-Schuster and Gudrun Danzer

The Artothek Styria offers those keen on and interested in art the chance to loan out selected originals from the Neue Galerie Graz collection for private use. The Arthotek will be operated for the third time already in 2018. In total 20 works are available for hire, which can be viewed and reserved during the one-month exhibition. After the exhibition has ended, loaners can then take the artworks they have reserved home with them, and let them sink in over ten months in the privacy of their own homes – thus the art in a museum reaches its public directly.

Art Space Styria 2018

Opening: 06.12.2018, 6 pm Duration: 07.12.2018–17.03.2019 Curated by Günther Holler-Schuster

The cultural office of the Province of Styria undertakes various studio programmes and stipends for Styrian artists, which take these persons abroad or promote their setting up a studio in Styria. This exhibition in the Neue Galerie Graz shows various artistic positions with works, which were created over 2017-2018 thanks to these stipends. studio series

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. Four studio exhibitions are curated by Günther Holler-Schuster and Roman Grabner in 2018, and made available free of charge. In addition, a further studio for Katrina Daschner will take place as part of the Diagonale ’18, curated by Katrin Bucher Trantow.

12 The Drawing Obsession

Opening: 01.03.2018, 7 pm Duration: 02.03.–02.09.2018 Curated by Roman Grabner

While a large retrospective is devoted to Günther Brus in Vienna in early 2018 to mark his upcoming 80th birthday, the BRUSUEM opens its rooms to a young generation of artists who have something in common with the ‘landlord’, Herr Brus: their obsession with drawing. On display are not only the wide variety of expressive forms offered by the medium of drawing, but also the process of drawing itself. Ten young artists from Europe – including Studio Asynchrome, Gabór Kóos and Marianne Lang – will each come for four weeks to Graz to create new works in front of the public in the BRUSEUM, and thus break up the conventional structure found in exhibitions. Therefore, on the opening day, no single work will be on show, given that the exhibition develops throughout its duration. Whilst this happens, the public is invited to come back again and again, stay for a cup of tea or coffee, and experience the process of creating art. Visitors can also become active themselves, for the so-called permanent exhibition room will temporarily be converted into a ‘participation room’. To accompany this exhibition, we are organising regular concerts of contemporary music jointly with the Art University of Graz, so as to shed light on parallel structures in the two forms of expression.

13 As if with the Scalpel The Actionist Drawings of Günter Brus

Opening: 27.09.2018, 7 pm Duration: 28.09.2018–27.01.2019 Curated by Roman Grabner

To mark Günter Brus’ 80th birthday, the BRUSEUM is showing a world-first exhibition of his Actionist drawings. The jubilee is also an occasion to present the first part of a catalogue of works that is planned over many years. Founded in 2008, the BRUSEUM is not only a museum for Günter Brus; it is also conceived crucially as a centre of expertise concerning, and research into, the artist’s oeuvre. In the 1960s Günter Brus placed his body at the centre of his art. In the drawings that prepared, accompanied and built upon his Actions, he reveals himself as a brutally tortured and mutilated individual. The ‘body analyses’, as he calls his later Actions, find their execution in drawing form in the multiple penetration and vivisection of his body, in lines that are as sharp as they are unsparing, reminding one of cuts made by a razor. The show As if with the Scalpel is the first time these ‘Actionist drawings’ have been gathered on their own, their intensity and their existential and political power remaining undiminished in currency and potency 50 years after their execution.

14 Bertl & Adele Two Children from Graz in the Holocaust

Opening: 25.01.2018, 7 pm Duration: 26.01.2018–27.12.2020 Conception: ‘HAUS DER NAMEN. Holocaust- und Toleranzzentrum Österreich’

The years of the Nazi rule meant terror, persecution and the murder of thousands of people in Styria, too. The exhibition Bertl & Adele shows the Holocaust through the example of two children from Graz: Bertl, whose flight took him through three continents, and who survived it all, and Adele, who to begin with fled with her family to France, only eventually to be murdered in Auschwitz after all. This exhibition has been taken over from the ‘HAUS DER NAMEN. Holocaust- und Toleranzzentrum Österreich’ and represents the first exhibition offered over a longer period by the addressing National Socialism.

15 Peter Rosegger Forest Home and a Changing World

Opening: 08.02.2018, 7 pm Duration: 09.02.2018–06.01.2019 Scientific Director: Gerald Schöpfer Curated by Astrid Aschacher

To this day Peter Rosegger is judged by many to be a conveyor of regional history and witness to the simple life of a farmer. His life and literature cannot be separated, however, from the European and global developments that shaped the period from 1848 to 1918. The exhibition is devoted to the great themes and radical shifts occurring at this time, presenting Peter Rosegger as an eye-witness to and commentator on the liberation of the peasants and rural exodus, on industrialisation and urbanisation, on the changes in medical provision and education, as well as the emergence of National Socialism.

16 100 Years of Border. An Exhibition in Three Chapters 100 Years of Border I: 1900–1918. The Period before Demarcation

Opening: 18.04.2018, 7 pm Duration: 19.04.–02.09.2018 Curated by Helmut Konrad

On the basis of private and regional photographic collections, sound documents and films, the History Museum shows a series of three exhibitions on the division of Styria following the First World War, as well as the political, cultural, economic and social consequences following from that through the last century. The first of three exhibitions in all is devoted to the period from 1900 to the end of the First World War. This exhibition shows how the border takes root in the minds of people as nationalism grows towards the end of the 19th century; how the real border demarcation comes about through commissions, with the help of border stones and the establishment of checkpoints; and how the border then finally becomes lived reality.

100 Years of Border. An Exhibition in Three Acts 100 Years of Border II: 1919–1945. Life at the Border

Opening: 13.09.2018, 7 pm Duration: 14.09.2018–24.02.2019 Curated by Helmut Konrad

The second chapter of the exhibition 100 Years of Border is devoted to the time from 1919 to the end of the Second World War. Focus is on rising national tension, the National Socialist policy of shifting the border, as well as the eventual construction of the Iron Curtain.

The third part is to open in March 2019: it will begin with the period immediately following the Second World War and end with the year 2018.

17 Hotspot Mur Concealed Emeralds

Opening: 08.03.2018, 7 pm Duration: 09.03.–09.12.2018 Curated by Ursula Stockinger, Stephan Koblmüller (University of Graz) and Wolfgang Paill In cooperation with the University of Graz and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna Design: Franz Josef Haas

The River Mur is a hotspot of Styrian biodiversity. Many specialised animal and plant species populate the watercourse, its banks and the meadow landscapes lying behind it. A high dependency on flowing water is shown here, which not only ensures provision of oxygen and nutrients, but also offers constantly low temperatures. Moreover, the flowing water is also a guarantee for the continuous existence of special and precious river habitats. For sand and gravel bars can only exist if they are constantly reformed and deposited by ever-recurring high waters. Despite the damage done to the Mur by man – from the regulations of the 19th century to energy plants currently under construction – the Mur has retained a unique living environment. The spectrum of species on display in the exhibition range from the huchen or Danube salmon and vairone, two rare and greatly endangered species of fish, and Frieb’s ground beetle, a tiny insect found in banks, to the “emerald-Gressling”. The exciting story of the discovery of the latter species, a kind of gudgeon known to the world only from the River Mur, makes the link to present-day scientific research.

18 Science Center

Opening: Spring 2019 (planned) Developed and planned by the Graz Children’s Museum FRida & freD and the Universalmuseum Joanneum

It is planned that in the spring of 2019 a Science Center of a new kind will be opened in the Joanneum Quarter in the form of a cooperation between the Universalmuseum Joanneum and the Graz Children’s Museum Frida & freD. Specially created theme-based spaces with imaginative storylines allow visitors to immerse themselves in the science and technology using play. Numerous hands-on stations, an augmented reality area, as well as the chance to make things themselves all arouse the curiosity of youngsters. Through various creative and didactic approaches in the way science and applied technology are presented, a broad public can be addressed and made more aware of these themes. The Science Center is financially supported by the Province of Styria, the city of Graz, and a series of private sponsors.

19 Who’s Next? From the Series ‘Schauplatz Natur’

03.03.2018, Natural History Museum Curated by Michael Pinter

The Natural History Museum and the protection of species – a link that is to be consciously made firmer vis-a-vis the general public from 2018 onwards, as part of the Citizen Science projects. Every March 3rd – the World Wild Life Day – the Natural History Museum together with its partners turns the spotlight on endangered species. It shows how the black list of threatened species is created, and actively takes steps to move in the right direction. Species don’t drop off the list for ever in foreign climes only, but in our backyard, too. For 2018, the team responsible for nature education, jointly with ‘Birdlife Styria’, has chosen the collared flycatcher. Let’s support this threatened species together and create more habitat! Let’s take a step in the right direction and offer this bird nesting possibilities. Each and every one of us can make a contribution! Anyone who makes a tree available receives a suitable nesting box from us free of charge, along with information about this bird and its habitat. The first 100 participants are guaranteed a place on the project.

Climate Change and Styria From the series ‘Schauplatz Natur’

12.12.2018, Natural History Museum Curated by Michael Pinter and Markus Rieser

The Natural History is taking on climate change. Together with experts from important Styrian research institutions, the city of Graz and the Province of Styria, this global development will be examined close-up with particular reference to its effects on Graz and Styria as a whole. The Natural History Museum will turn into a place where information is offered and exchanged, where questions from the people of Styria will be explained and answered. What can the various regions of Styria expect from climate change, and what can every one of us really do to counter its effects?

20 Archduke Johann The world of Styrian iron

Opening: 23.03.2018, 7 pm Duration: 24.03.–31.10.2018 Curated by Maria Zengerer and Karlheinz Wirnsberger

From the beginning of the 18th century, innovations occurred in the iron industry that started in England and which Archduke Johann brought to Styria. In 1815/16, he travelled to England, a journey that greatly impressed him. Johann’s interest was in industry, hence he wished primarily to study the technical advances made in Great Britain. For centuries iron had been Styria’s most important branch of industry, and due to Johann’s love of innovation and subtlety, it was possible to convince Styrians of the advantages found in this material. This exhibition shows iron both in the form we are familiar with, but also in unusual forms that bear witness to man’s skill in refining the materials of nature – from the simply scythe to a high-performance steel cable.

21 “Whom does the Großglockner belong to?”

Opening: 24.03.2018, 11 am Duration: 24.03.–31.10.2018 Curated by Bianca Russ-Panhofer and Karlheinz Wirnsberger

The Rosegger Museum in Krieglach shows Peter Rosegger from a new angle in the commemoration year of 2018, inviting visitors to learn about new, previously unnoticed aspects of the writer, journalist, poet, forest lad and tailor’s apprentice that was Rosegger. And so we have finally taken a long- overdue step, to move away from the cliché of the romantically idealised forest peasant boy wading through deep snow in winter, to present a critical, political, indeed at times self-promoting Styrian.

22 My portraIt and YOU An Exhibition for Young People

Opening: 26.04.2018, 7 pm Duration: 27.04.–31.10.2018 Curated by Barbara Kaiser

Since early times we have taken pleasure in our own image; in the image we remember our loves, in it we show others just how unique we are. Every portrait is a special dialogue between the subject depicted and those viewing it. But do we see ourselves in a true light? This exhibition sets out to make the portraits of past centuries more accessible to young people and those accompanying them, stimulating visitors to design, depict and participate in role play. What masks can we wear in doing this? Clothes maketh the man, as they say, yet they also lend a face to features. What do strength, courage or friendship actually look like? We tell here of dress codes and secret messages, of sweet memories and painful loss. And can we hear the subjects too? Do they speak to us, can they even play us music?

23 The Impact of Passarowitz 300 Years of Continuity in Europe

Opening: 05.04.2018, 7 pm Duration: 06.04.–04.11.2018 Curated by Harald Heppner

In 1718 the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Empire conclude a peace and trade treaty in Passarowitz, today’s Požarevac in the north east of Serbia. Both treaties bring to an end hostilities between the two powers, but more besides. They usher in a new era of relations and place future cooperation between Central Europe and the Balkan countries on the basis of international law. The exhibition in the Styrian Armoury is devoted to the consequences of the treaties in the areas of traffic, economy, political relations, and cultural and scientific exchange to the present day.

World Peace Day 2018 Action Days and Programme

20.–22.09.2018 Curated by Andreas Metelko and Anita Niegelhell

The Styrian Armoury is a museum facing special challenges in terms of its educational mission: in an aesthetic sense, historical weapons are presented there which exert great fascination on people. Its goal was always to commit violence, however. To deal with this ambivalence in a productive way and to bring the historical theme of war and conflict into the present, the educational team has again organised an Action Day to mark the World Peace Day of the United Nations on September 21st. Besides the established focus on schools, the programme increasingly is aimed at a wider public and shows the results of various cooperations, some more long-term, others more current in their themes. There will be a varied programme on offer with readings, plays and practical workshops, and at the heart of these events lies ‘dialogue’, both the term and the practice of the same. Individual programmes also take place in the History Museum, Folk Life Museum and Natural History Museum.

24 Razor sharp 6000 years chert mining in Rein near Graz

Opening: 17.05.2018, 7 pm Duration: 18.05.–31.10.2018 Curated by Daniel Modl and Michael Brandl In cooperation with the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Institute for Prehistory and Historical Archaeology at the University of Vienna.

Silex, known popularly as ‘flint’ or ‘hornstone’, is among the oldest known raw materials of mankind. It was used for making tools, as well as for making fire. The exhibition presents the Neolithic-Age hornstone mine at Rein, the earliest mine in Styria, on the basis of archaeological and geoscientific research undertaken jointly by the Universalmuseum Joanneum, the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Department of Oriental and European Archaeology) and the Institute for Prehistory and Historical Archaeology at the University of Vienna. The exhibition shows how hornstone was mined more than 6,000 years ago in the Rein basin, and the role played by this new resource in the development of Stone Age cultural spaces and barter and trade systems in Styria and beyond.

25 Female Slaves of Virtue Ladies’ Orders in Old Austria

Opening: 17.05.2018, 7 pm Duration: 18.05.–31.10.2018 Curated by Helmut-Theobald Müller, Hermann Dikowitsch, Johann Stolzer and Karl Peitler In cooperation with the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Ordenskunde

Ladies’ orders were created for women and could only be worn by women. In the exhibition Female Slaves of Virtue, the extraordinary and very rare medallions of the three most important female orders from old Austria are on show: the Stone Cross Order, the Elisabeth Order, and the Order of the Female Slaves of Virtue. The Stone Cross Order was founded on September 18th 1668 by Empress Eleonora, third wife of Emperor Ferdinand III, in memory of a lost and then re-found relic cross for Catholic noblewomen, for the promotion of venerating the holy cross, a virtuous life and good deeds. The Elisabeth Order was founded on September 17th 1898 by Emperor Franz Joseph I as the first and only ladies’ order of distinction of Austria-Hungary in honour of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia. At the same time, it served to commemorate Empress Elisabeth, who was murdered in Geneva on September 10th 1898. It could be awarded to all women, regardless of social status or religion, whether married or single, as a reward for services rendered. The Order of the Female Slaves of Virtue was also founded by Empress Eleonora. The prerequisite for acceptance into this order was a virtuous and pious way of life. The number of noble women was set at thirty, not including princesses. This exhibition is the first of its kind in Austria. Support from the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Ordenskunde (the Austrian Society for the Study of Orders) enabled the provision of the objects on show.

26 Presence and Appearance

Opening: 21.04.2018, 11 am Duration: 22.04.–04.11.2018 Curated by Diana Brus Design: Werner Schrempf

In the exhibition Presence and Appearance, four artists from the Ennstal region once again get involved in the special exhibition at Schloss Trautenfels with their works. After a successful collaboration in 2014, contemporary works by Andreas Müller, Roland Reiter, Patrick Topitschnig and Elisabeth Wildling are once again on show in the Marble Hall, pieces that engage with themes from the current special exhibition titled God and the World. What do we actually believe in? Questions of spirituality and the associated meta-levels of faith and thought that take shape in this process are dealt with in an open and connective way, in line with artistic positions. The sculptural focus of the works presented thus reflects the exhibition title in the sense of being visual evidence of what otherwise seems only visible to the inner eye.

Parallel to Presence and Appearance, the exhibition God and the World is on show until 31.10.2018. To mark two anniversaries – 500 years of the Lutheran Theses (2017) and 800 Years of the Graz-Seckau Diocese (2017) – the special exhibition in Schloss Trautenfels is dedicated to the broader theme of ‘Faith and Believing’.

27 Spring Celebrations 27.05.2018, 2 – 5 pm Curated by Elisabeth Fiedler

Artists in Residence 2018 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. This year, Brigitte Kowanz was awarded the Artist-in- Residence programme of the Austrian Sculpture Park, together with her students of trans-media art at the University for Applied Art in Vienna.

In Then Out 2018 In 2014 students of Tobias Rehberger at the Städelschule in Frankfurt were invited for the Artist-in-Residence programme of the Austrian Sculpture Park. The resulting work was the sculpture In Then Out, which is arranged architecturally in such a way that a processual and participatory approach is designed as a result. Students are now invited every year to engage in dialogue with the sculpture and to undertake a redesign of the construct as it exists. In 2018 the class of Markus Wilfling at the Ortweinschule in Graz was secured for this project for the second time.

Late Summer Celebration 09.09.2018, 2 – 5 pm Curated by Elisabeth Fiedler

In 2018 the Late Summer Celebration will once again invite you to join in a relaxed afternoon of guided tours, a kids’ programme, music and culinary delights.

28 Musger Motion Blur – Clemens Luser

Opening: 29.06.2018 Eisenerz Curated by Elisabeth Fiedler and Dirck Möllmann

The origin of the slow-motion camera basically goes back to August Musger (1868–1929), who was born in Eisenerz. A memorial is to be dedicated to him in that town, to be presented in 2018 to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth. In a selection contest, Clemens Luser convinced with his idea of linking a slow-motion camera with speed and moving an object if required so quickly around its own axis that it begins to blur in our perception of it. Only with the aid of the slow-motion camera, available as standard in smartphones of the more recent generation, can the sculpture’s rotating movement be slowed down visually, so as to recognise its form once again on the screen. A rotating sculpture which can be perceived in slow-motion as almost immobile is something unique. The memorial will honour August Musger and his epoch-making impact in fitting fashion.

Inverting Battlefields – For a Borderless Future

Opening: June 2018 Feldbach Curated by Elisabeth Fiedler and Dirck Möllmann

The XENOS Society has begun to engage with our culture and the countries on our borders. In cooperation with cultural institutions as well as committed citizens, artists from Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia have been creating valuable works since early 2017 through their engagement with history in workshops and art events, all in support of a European cultural community that is based on the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights. The special idea is to link these works with Styria. The Institute for Art in Public Space time and again carries out high-quality art projects outside of the provincial capital. Feldbach, a city rich in history as a border town, with depth from its past and an open vision of the future, is the Styrian partner and venue for the planned exhibition with corresponding works by both Styrian and international artists. For more information, go to: www.inclusiveeurope.net.

29 COMRADE CONRADE Democracy and Peace on the Streets

Opening: September 2018 Discourse Platform 2: Temporary KiöR projects in Graz Organisation and project management: Nicole Pruckermayr Curated by Elisabeth Fiedler and Dirck Möllmann

Spread over several years, the art, research and peace project has been set up as inter-disciplinary, and is engaged with public space in the city of Graz. With a view to the commemoration year 2018 (100 years since the end of the First World War and the proclamation of the First Republic, the centenary of general suffrage for men and women, the 80th anniversary of the ‘Anschluß’ or annexation of Austria to the ‘Third Reich’, 70 years of Human Rights), the project examines the state and future of democracy and freedom as it is lived, taking as its example Conrad-von-Hötzendorf-Straße. In September 2018, temporary art-in-public-space projects lasting two to three weeks will be presented by the participating artists, the venue being Conrad-von-Hötzendorf-Straße, with and within the public institutions and buildings located there (such as Lebenshilfe (social services), the Kunsthalle Graz, the stadium, cinema, city centre, etc.).

30 Initial photo material for these projects can be found at the following link: www.museum-joanneum.at/press/Programme18

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

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