Kunsthaus Graz
20 Years Kunsthaus Graz. Re-Imagine the Future
Exhibition
Société Réaliste, U.N. Camouflage (2014), installation view, SIZ Gallery, Rijeka, photo: Elvis Krstulović
Kunsthaus Graz celebrates its twentieth anniversary with a nuanced reactivation of history that focuses on the unexposed and less visible aspects of past projects, specific new artistic productions, and performative interventions. Weaving together a multitude of possible strands from history with the present and future becomes the leitmotif for a multivoiced speculation titled Re-Imagine the Future. The opening celebration simultaneously launches Protocols for Utopia, a four-day event series at Kunsthaus.
The Other
Re-Imagine the Future
The group exhibition The Other at Space02 addresses themes of identity, history, belonging, and exclusion. It dwells on the paradoxical position of the “Other” as a constituent element but also as a disruption. This disruption not only serves to differentiate, but is also an impulse to think about this difference as an opening for possible future scenarios. The artistic positions on display invite us to use the concept of the “Other” to explore asymmetrical relationships that sustain systems of exploitation, or to turn to historical and contemporary alternatives that rely on solidarity and comradeship.
Sol LeWitt’s Wall. Performed
Re-Imagine the Future
Sol LeWitt’s monumental Wall, an elongated wall designed by the artist for Space01, is reactivated and reread after twenty years. Over nine months, it will be placed into linguistic, historical, and conceptual dialogues with current artistic positions such as those of Jasmina Cibic, Franz Vana, and Renate Krammer. Sol LeWitt famously provides a concept whose essential artistic achievement is the idea. The production of the works becomes a collective endeavor in which instructions are scrupulously followed. Consequently, the exhibition opens with a chapter on conceptual protocols, which, in line with our ambition to reflect the future, occupy the space as Protocols for Utopia.
27.9.23–18.2.24
27.9.23–9.6.24
The Other. Re-Imagine the Future
27.9.23–18.2.24
Sol LeWitt’s Wall. Performed: Re-Imagine the Future
27.9.23–9.6.24
Kunsthaus Graz
Lendkai 1
8020 Graz ♿
Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00
27.9., 10:00–24:00
28.9., 10:00–23:00
29.9.–30.9., 10:00–21:00
11/10/4.50 euros
27.9.–1.10., free admission
27.9.
19:00
Celebratory ceremonial act and exhibition openings
20:30
Franz Jochum
Protocol for Utopia
Participatory choir performance
Space01
21:00 onward
PARTY!
Space01
28.9.
11:00
Guided tour by the artists
Space02
17:00
Colin Fournier, Peter Pakesch, Pieternel Vermoortel, Katrin Bucher Trantow
Re-Imagine a Kunsthaus
Conversation
Space01
19:00–22:00
Protocol for Utopia: Being One
Poetic-performative evening, cocurated by Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin
Space01
29.9, 30.9.
16:00–19:00
Jasmina Cibic
Protocol for Utopia: The Dreams We Call Our Own
Performance in collaboration with Barbara Kinga Majewska
Space01
