The Kunsthaus Graz invites to a press conference at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana for the presentation of the anniversary program 20 years Kunsthaus Graz / Austria.
Press conference:
Presentation of the anniversary program 20 years Kunsthaus Graz
Title: Re-Imagine the Future
Date: September 5, 2023
Time: 11 a.m.
Place: Museum of Modern Art, Cankarjeva 15, Ljubljana
The Kunsthaus Graz / Austria celebrates its 20th anniversary. From September 27 to October 1, the anniversary celebrations will reactivate the history of the institution and focus on the unexposed and less visible aspects of past projects. The kick-off of the celebration will also launch the Protocols for Utopia series of events, which will last several days. We cordially invite you to learn more about the Kunsthaus Graz, its 20-year history - with quite fruitful relations with the Slovenian art scene - and the anniversary celebrations at the press conference on September 5, 2023 at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana.
At the press conference on September 5, 2023 at 11 a.m. at the Museum of Modern Art , Cankarjeva 15, Ljubljana, the following contact persons will be at your disposal:
We kindly ask you to register at: presse@kunsthausgraz.at
Kunsthaus Graz:
As part of the European Capital of Culture, Graz received a new architectural landmark in the form of the Kunsthaus in 2003. The invitation "Auf ins Ungewisse - Up into the Unknown" by Kunsthaus architects Colin Fournier and Peter Cook is and was an adventurous invitation to test the limits of imagination and to enable the demand for alternative ideas and utopias. As a multifunctional and producing exhibition house, the Kunsthaus Graz continues to challenge the idea of the exhibition space as a white cube. Through its architecture, program, and mission statement, it faces up to its time as a place of potentiality and otherness with the idea of spinning out of history a multitude of possible strands into the present and the future.
Highlights of the program for the anniversary celebrations:
Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 7 p.m. to midnight
7 p.m.: Ceremonial act and exhibition openings Re-Imagine the Future. The Other & Sol LeWitt‘s Wall. Performed
Sol LeWitt famously provides a concept where the concise idea is the main artistic invention and its production a collective undertaking where rules are followed carefully. In keeping with our search for a reactivation of the future, which runs through the entire Kunsthaus, the exhibitions begin with the chapter on conceptual protocols and drafts of utopias.
8.30 p.m.: Protocol for Utopia: A participatory choral performance by Franz Jochum
Over the past 20 years, the Kunsthaus Graz has been shaped not least by the artists who have helped to shape its program. We asked 20 of them for their utopias for the future as the basis for a piece of music – sung by a choir of singers, staff and visitors.
from 9 p.m.: PARTY!
Thursday, September 28, 2023, open until 11 p.m.
11 a.m.: Artists‘ tour of the exhibition The Other. Re-Imagine the Future
5 p.m.: Re-Imagine a Kunsthaus
The conversation with architect Colin Fournier, founding director Peter Pakesch and others, moderated by Katrin Bucher, reviews the relation of the architecture, the institution and its rooting in space and time and undertakes a projective journey to a living building for futures to come.
7 p.m.–10 p.m.: Protocol for Utopia: Being One
A multi-voiced poetic-performative evening for listening, co-curated by Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin. In the hours between day and night and under the dome of the Kunsthaus, musicians, poets and theorists collaborate to share poetic experiences of communality in the footsteps of Jean Luc Nancy, Édouard Glissant and Donna J. Harraway.
Friday, 29 and Saturday, 30 September 2023, open until 9 p.m.
From 4 p.m.: Protocol for Utopia: The dreams we call our own
A performance by Jasmina Cibic in collaboration with Barbara Kinga Majewska. Commissioned and co-produced by Kunsthaus Graz and steirischer herbst '23. Jasmina Cibic‘s new and site-specific performance with eight female singers builds on the artist‘s research on the exchange between the cultural workers of the non-aligned countries that took place in Titograd, Yugoslavia, in October 1985.
Sunday, October 1, 2023, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Energie Graz Day
Free admission sponsored by Energie Graz
... and much more:
We will be happy to answer any questions you may have and look forward to your registration!
With kind regards
Daniela Teuschler
daniela.teuschler@museum-joanneum.at
Stephanie Liebmann
stephanie.liebmann@museum-joanneum.at
