Künstlerhaus Graz
The Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien is an exhibition center for fine arts in Graz . It is dedicated to contemporary art . Since January 2013, the Kunstverein Medienturm and its team have been responsible for the programmatic orientation and operation of the house.
The building was built in 1951/52 according to plans by Robert Haueisen based on the model of the Vienna Secession as a free-standing exhibition building. Similar to the Documenta (Kassel), the Künstlerhaus is committed to the connection to the modern age, in this context important exhibitions have repeatedly been seen, such as “ambiente / environment” as part of the three-country biennale “Trigon”, 1967.
The artist house, which was reopened and repositioned in 2013 after an extensive general renovation, shows contemporary art of current international trends with the involvement of outstanding Styrian artists.
With specific competence and under the independent management of the comparatively young art association Medienturm , which was located in a former Graz water tower from 2000 to 2012 , the institution managed by Sandro Droschl acts with media prudence, is aware of the requirements and demands of a regional and international art audience and searches for them consequently the combination of young and related established art. With a contemporary orientation and as a venerable institution in a new splendor, the Künstlerhaus, built in 1951, corresponds to its traditional reputation as one of the most architecturally beautiful exhibition houses in Austria and at the same time strives to create ideal framework conditions for the presentation and discussion of current art. Numerous international art magazines, publications by the institution and information material on the respective exhibitions are available for reading and viewing in the foyer.
The Künstlerhaus opened on March 6, 2013 with the exhibition Chat Jet (Part 1) - Painting 'beyond' its medium .
History of origin
As early as 1909, the Graz municipal council voted for the plot of land that would later be used in front of the castle gate , but in 1910 1,327 respected citizens , unofficially encouraged by a committee member of the city beautification association, petitioned against this decision, and an in-depth discussion about an alternative developed immediately Locations.
However, the artist house was only built in 1951 at the address Burgring 2 and opened on June 20, 1952 (with the large hall, the attached apse and the separate graphic room) with an exhibition of Styrian artists.
The Künstlerhaus was the first cultural building in Austria to be built from the rubble of the devastating war. Under the authority of the State of Styria, the building was erected on a prominent location made available by the City of Graz in the city park not far from the state government, the cathedral and the theater, thus fulfilling a decades-long wish of local artists and the culturally interested population. This great cultural-political endeavor was favored by the British allies positioned in southern Austria and Styria between 1945 and 1955, who, in their efforts to democratize the population, relied on re-education and de-Nazification, and in theirs too Let cultural commitment guide, for which the new building of the artist house should remain a publicly visible symbol in the cityscape of Graz.
The Künstlerhaus Graz was built according to the design of the architect Robert Haueisen by the Graz City Building Office based on the example of the Vienna Secession .
Location and spaces
The house is east of the old town not far from the castle gate and on the southwest edge of the city park.
The house essentially offers a large, high hall at ground level with an apse with a slightly raised floor in the north. On the east side is a lower, elongated, smaller room. The wide staircase in front of the entrance in the east leads to the small foye, from which a staircase winds down to the side of the cellar anteroom. From here you can get to the sanitary rooms and two exhibition rooms with the same floor plan as on the ground floor, but without an apse. The room height is lower here. In the large basement, a few columns support the ceiling. A flat wheelchair ramp leads to the right of the entrance into the building.
Exhibition history
Between 1952 and 1991 the board of trustees of the Künstlerhaus, consisting of representatives of the state government, the city of Graz, the artists' associations, the Ministry of Education and the Graz Federal Trade School, decided to divide the exhibitions. The Neue Galerie at the Landesmuseum Joanneum and the Grazer Kunstverein also organized regular exhibitions in the Künstlerhaus until 2011. From 1963 to 1985 the three-country Biennale Trigon took place every two years , one of which was in 1967 under the title ambiente / environment . Günther Domenig and Eilfried Huth were responsible for the exhibition design . Until 1992, the three-country biennial trigon organized by the Neue Galerie Graz , including Audiovisual Messages (1973) and other thematic exhibitions, took place here.
From 2003 to 2012 the Künstlerhaus was a department of the Universalmuseum Joanneum under the artistic direction of Werner Fenz , which organized the exhibition dates with the artists' associations belonging to the house - professional association of visual artists Styria, Sezession Graz , Steiermärkischer Kunstverein - Werkbund, Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Steiermarks and Künstlerbund - the exhibition dates Splits.
The Künstlerhaus is therefore independent in all matters, both organizationally and economically, and is not subject to any supervisory board. The head of the Medienturm association , Sandro Droschl, was originally awarded the contract to operate the house for five years, but this was extended to 2020 - with an option to 2022.
| Some important exhibitions in the Künstlerhaus Graz |
|---|
1952
|
1954
|
1957
|
1960
|
1963
|
1965
|
1967
|
1969
|
1971
|
1973
|
1975
|
1977
|
1979
|
1981
|
1983
|
1985
|
1986
|
1987
|
1992
|
1993
|
1996
|
1998
|
2000
|
2001
|
2002
|
2003
|
2004
|
2005
|
2007
|
2008
|
2009
|
2010
|
2013
|
2014
|
2015
|
2016
|
2017
|
2018
|
2019
|
literature
- Association of the visual artists of Styria (ed.): The construction of the artist house in Graz. Memorandum . Verlag des Verein, Graz 1908, OBV .
- (Committee for the establishment of the association "Künstlerhaus"): An artist house in Graz . Self-published by the committee for the establishment of the “Künstlerhaus” association, Graz 1908, OBV .
- Wilfried Skreiner (arrangement), Alexander Wied (ed.): Fine arts in Styria, 1945–1960, 23.4. – 16.5.1983, Graz, Neue Galerie and Künstlerhaus . Verlag Neue Galerie, Graz 1983, OBV .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sandro Droschl (Red.): As of 2013, the team of the Kunstverein Medienturm (...) . In: medienturm.at , accessed on August 14, 2015.
- ↑ Adalbert of Drasenovich: Artist construction space. In: Grazer Tagblatt , morning edition, No. 94/1910 (XXth year), April 6, 1910, pp. 1–4. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ^ Catalog for the opening of the Künstlerhaus in Graz and the exhibition of Styrian artists. Painting, graphics, plastic. June 20 to August 3, 1952 . Graz 1952, OBV .
- ↑ :: KM– Künstlerhaus, Hall for Art & Media. Retrieved February 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Stadtpark, Burggarten and Opernring . In: Gertrude Celedin, Wiltraud Resch: Kulturführer Graz. Art, architecture, science, literature . Böhlau, Vienna (among others) 2003, ISBN 3-205-77081-1 , p. 149.
- ↑ :: KM– Künstlerhaus, Hall for Art & Media. Retrieved February 6, 2019 .
- ^ Trine 1967
- ↑ Kulturkalender Graz ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ https://www.km-k.at/de/institution/building/
Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 18.2 " N , 15 ° 26 ′ 40.5" E