New Gallery Graz

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The Neue Galerie Graz is part of the Universalmuseum Joanneum and mainly shows contemporary art .

history

Neue Galerie, Sackstraße 16, main podium, 2nd floor, view towards the Schloßbergtrakt (October 2007)

The gallery was created in 1941 by dividing the State Picture Gallery of the Joanneum, founded in 1811, into an old and a new gallery, with the latter taking over the holdings from the 19th and 20th centuries in the Palais Herberstein at Sackstraße 16 as a new museum department. The city palace was rebuilt by the baroque architect Josef Hueber before the middle of the 18th century and adapted for the princes of Eggenberg and, subsequently, for the counts of Herberstein. When its existence was endangered, it was saved by Hans Riehl (1941–1955), the first director of the Neue Galerie, who achieved the dedication of the house as a museum. The subsequent directors were Walter Koschatzky (1956–1962), Trude Aldrian (1963–1965), Wilfried Skreiner (1966–1992), Werner Fenz (1993–1997), Peter Weibel (1998) and Christa Steinle (1998–2011). Until 2011, Weibel was chief curator responsible for numerous large exhibitions.

Due to the restructuring measures of the Universalmuseum Joanneum for budgetary reasons, the Neue Galerie Graz was merged with the Kunsthaus Graz in 2011 to form the “Modern and Contemporary Art” department headed by Peter Peer. Also in 2011 the Neue Galerie was relocated to its new location, the Joanneum Quarter.

assignment

The gallery sees it as its cultural mission to inform the public about the status of current art production on a regional, national and international level by means of exhibitions and symposia. Large programmatic collective exhibitions create a forum for local and foreign artists to meet and shed light on socially and politically current issues in well-founded analyzes:

  • “Context Art”, 1993
  • "Pittura Immedia." 90s paintings from the USA and Europe , 1995
  • “Beyond Art”, 1996/1997/1998
  • "The Anagrammatic Body", 1999
  • "In the Letter Field - The Future of Literature", 2001
  • "In Search of Balkania", 2002
  • “Phantom of Lust / The Sacher Masoch Festival and M-ARS Art and War”, 2003
  • " RAF - On the Presentation of Terror ", 2005
  • " Slum ", 2006/2007

In personal exhibitions, the gallery defines the broad field of investigation of art in all media of expression such as painting , sculpture , photography , digital media , video and film art , object art , installations or architecture . For example, many years before other museums, the Neue Galerie attracted young artists who are now fixed stars of the art scene, such as B. Félix González-Torres , Rudolf Stingel , Pipilotti Rist , Sylvie Fleury , William Kentridge or Olafur Eliasson large solo exhibitions dedicated. Since 2002, Styrian artists of the middle generation, whose work already enjoys an international reputation, have found a forum in retrospective personal exhibitions, among them names such as Herbert Brandl , Erwin Wurm , Rudi Molacek , Günter Brus , Hans Kupelwieser , Fritz Panzer , Erwin Bohatsch , Hubert Schmalix .

Young Austrian artists who are not yet established in the art world are given the opportunity to present themselves in the exhibition series in the Neue Galerie studio. Mostly Austrian artists from the first half of the 20th century are presented in the Hofgalerie. that are related to the Neue Galerie collection, e.g. B. Ida Maly , Franz Krausz , Lily Greenham . With the art-historical processing of her works it is possible to refer to interesting positions that would otherwise be forgotten. The Neue Galerie's “Artist in Residence” program offers three international artists the opportunity to live and work in Graz for a while and then present the resulting products to the public.

The Neue Galerie endeavors to accompany and underpin its exhibitions with events on theory.

collection

The collection with works from the beginning of the 19th century to the present is an exemplary example of the convergence of public and private collections on a high level. Without the financial and intellectual commitment of private collectors, the public collection would not have its international reputation. The foundation of the 19th century collection is a donation from Archduke Johann , foundations from the imperial family and the local nobility. After the First World War , the collecting activity came to a standstill due to the economic situation, so the art around 1900 and that of the interwar period is not documented in a representative manner, an important painting by Egon Schiele (end of town) and graphics ( Klimt , Schiele, Kokoschka ) are the exception here .

With the introduction of the Joanneum Art Prize in 1959, the International Painting Weeks in Styria (1966 to 1992) and the Trigon Biennials (1963–1995), the Neue Galerie's collecting activities have expanded and internationalized considerably since the 1970s and 1980s. In addition to the continuous expansion of the 19th and 20th century holdings, the focus of the current collection activity is Austrian and international contemporary art, with particular attention to the art of the 1970s ( Fluxus , happenings , conceptual art ) from the Eastern European art space.

Exhibitions

In order to keep the interest of the public alive and in response to the limited space available, the collection is presented in changing, long-term exhibitions with different themes:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Torn from oblivion on orf.at, accessed on May 27, 2013

Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 21 ″  N , 15 ° 26 ′ 12.5 ″  E