Kunsthaus Graz

• Exhibition

3/21/2026 - 9/20/2026

Hybrid Pleasures

Helen Chadwick Supported by Liesl Raff

For the first time in over two decades, the radical and sensuous work of Helen Chadwick (1953–1996) is presented in its full scope and brought into dialogue with Austrian-based sculptor Liesl Raff (*1979, Stuttgart), offering a contemporary perspective on Chadwick’s groundbreaking practice. The exhibition is co-produced with The Hepworth Wakefield and is based on Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures, 2025, organised by The Hepworth Wakefield and curated by Laura Smith. Site-specificallyadapted to the flowing architecture of the Kunsthaus Graz, it forms part of BLOOM, a museum-wide focus on the motif of the flower at the Universalmuseum Joanneum.

• Artists:
• Helen Chadwick
• British conceptual artist Helen Chadwick embraced the sensuous aspects of the natural world, breaking taboos of the "normal" and "traditional" in art historical pedagogy. Her influence upon a young generation of British artists was cemented through her teaching posts at the Royal College of Art, Chelsea School of Art and the London Institute. Her experiments with material were innovative and unconventional and captured a world in a state of flux. Piss Flowers (1991-92), in which she cast the interior spaces left in the snow by warm urine, are at once revulsive as they are beautiful, and it this combination that typifies Chadwick's work: aesthetic beauty created out of an alliance of unconventional, often vile, materials. Nominated for the Turner Prize in 1987 her work is included in the Tate Collection as well as the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, NY.
• Liesl Raff
• Liesl Raff’s sculptures explore the nuances of physical and social interactions through a profound appreciation of diverse materials and persistent experimentation. Her work features a semiotics of materials that begins where words fail. She has used natural rubber to showcase its adaptable and shape-shifting properties. Standing near or within Raff’s pieces, you experience a transition into a warm, cozy, and calm state, feeling a sense of dependability and safety. Her sculptures integrate seamlessly with their surroundings, promoting contact and interaction. Raff creates gathering spaces that encourage connections between people, her works, and their environment. Her art is about living with and learning from her materials, fostering engagement, and eliminating the distance between the work and the viewer.

• Support:
• Co-produced with The Hepworth Wakefield. In collaboration with Museo Novecento, Florence

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• Exhibition

3/21/2026 - 11/8/2026

30 % Löwenzahn

The dandelion – as a flower, botanical plant, cultural symbol and aesthetic phenomenon – possesses strength and quiet courage. Unobtrusive yet persistent, it adapts radically, returns, and resists. Under the title 30% Dandelion, the exhibition at Kunsthaus Graz brings together more than 35 contemporary artistic positions dedicated to the flower and its direct connection to humans: humans share 30% of their genetic material with the flower.

• Artists:
• Iris Andraschek, Suzanne Anker, Andrea Bowers, Viltė Bražiūnatė & Tomas Sinkevičius, Regula Dettwiler, Spencer Finch, Barbara Frischmuth, Anita Fuchs, Anna Jermolaewa, Markus Jeschaunig, Claudia Larcher, Jonas Mekas, Joiri Minaya, Ryts Monet, Agnieszka Polska, Anna Ridler, Ugo Rondinone, Martha Rosler, Nina Schuiki, Elfie Semotan, Thomas Stimm, Michael Stusser, Neja Tomšič, Dirck Van Rijswijk, Sonya Schönberger und Anna Zemánkovár

• Link:
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• Exhibition

4/22/2026 - 4/30/2026

Big Eyes

Power of Urban Interfaces

Students from the Master’s programme in Interaction Design at FH Joanneum developed new concepts for the BIX media façade of the Kunsthaus Graz as part of the project “Power of Urban Interfaces.” The aim was to rethink the façade as an interactive medium in public space and to explore new forms of digital and analogue communication. In collaboration with the Kunsthaus Graz, nine projects were created following workshops and a public test run. Many proposals focused on a clear, retro-inspired aesthetic,
emotional engagement, and direct interaction with the building. The selected project, “BIG EYES” by Elina Dorzhieva, Veronika Poštrak and Genovefa Zourkou, features two large-scale eyes moving attentively across the façade, turning it into a responsive presence in the urban space.

• Artists:
• Elina Dorzhieva, Veronika Poštrak, Genovefa Zourkou

• Support:
• The project is supported by Energie Graz.