The starting point for this project is found photos from the early 20th century – coloured glass slides from the collection of the Lower Austrian Provincial Museum, which were used as teaching aids between the wars.

These five portraits are part of a 20-part series about life in Eisenerz, a mining town marked by change. Severin Hirsch’s sensitive portraits offer an insightful view of the residents of the Münichtal, a former residential estate for workers.

50 years ago, a sense of optimism reigned in Austria’s educational landscape. Both educational experts and a significant number of architects introduced proposals and concepts.

A new farm shop with a café at the central market place, a farm offering demonstrations and a fun experience, a research centre and an innovation centre for organic agriculture form the five cornerstones of the new centre together with the school.

In the exhibition, Captured on paper_The End _1100111 forms a start of SHOWING STYRIA and so again marks a transitional position – this time into the exhibition’s narrative about a plurality of futures.

The concept of the World as a Classroom emerges, where instead of the controversial ECTS points system of academic achievement, a WTCS, a global collection of study experiences is proposed.

In Weltverschiebung, the desire for public space is juxtaposed with the growing economisation of what once seemed like endless outer space.

The murauerInnen (Murau women) have set themselves the aim of updating role models and the assumptions made about the countryside.

For several years now they have been conducting research into algae as the basis for an environmentally friendly foam.

Limited sensory function and mobility in old age can lead to a reduction in the quality of life – the VR-SenseCity installation aims to make people aware of various aspects of sensory perception again through virtual mindfulness training. The virtual environment takes the form of a city and focuses on visual and auditory stimuli.

The bicycle plays a key role in urban mobility of the future. Often neglected in the car-friendly city of recent decades, a group of bicycle activists in Graz provided a significant impetus to bicycle mobility in 1980.

SoLaKo is a collective of four farms, an apiary and an association of ‘harvest sharers’ who want to further develop the idea of solidarity.

These two research projects are laying the groundwork for the use of wood in structural components in vehicle construction.

Across the world, more and more buildings are being constructed in wood. In the cities too, and even high-rise structures. The fact that tall wooden buildings such as the 24-storey Hoho in Vienna are possible is largely due to research at Graz University of Technology, where the groundwork for the development of cross laminated timber was laid in 1989.

In Training Democracy, Werner Reiterer explores the social demands of various opinion leaders in his own subversive way. Quotes collected from the American and European pro- and anti-abortion movements from 1999 to 2007 include protest slogans such as ‘Keep abortion legal’ or ‘My body, my decision’.

These two research projects are laying the groundwork for the use of wood in structural components in vehicle construction.

Under the title Foundation Requirements, Dejanoff, in his role as a contemporary artist, explores traditional building methods and materials such as wood, stone and clay as they were found in his houses or still exist in fragments.

At Graz University of Technology they have developed a way to use the flavouring substance vanillin, which we all know from baking, for sustainable energy storage.

Hannes Priesch has created new insignia for the Kunsthaus, bearing a message of polyphony. Extremely carefully crafted, the wind machine banners appear almost as the guardian figures of a distant future. Diverse and ambiguous, they point the way forward – towards a plurality of futures.

MAKAvA has been making iced tea for two decades now – and is a model example of what product development can mean.

In Austria, there are currently about 130,000 people living with dementia, and the number is expected to double by 2050.

Austria has a wilderness area that is unique in Central
Europe – the Dürrenstein-Lassingtal wilderness area, home to the
Rothwald primeval forest.

Der Boden beherbergt eine schier unendliche Vielzahl von Organismen, über deren Leben erstaunlich wenig bekannt ist.

It’s 2025 and Nadia, a care worker, is on her way in a driverless car to visit Pam, an elderly woman whose mobility is restricted after a stroke. With the help of a robotic walking stick and a machine that reminds her to take her medication, Pam receives basic support.

Once again, Manfred Erjautz manages to undermine presumed certainties about the means of the sculptural process.

Behind the ‘Common Good Balance Sheet’ lies the ‘Economy for the Common Good (ECG)’ – a movement originating in Austria that sees itself as a fundamental critique and practical alternative to capitalist economic activity. The ECG wants to turn capitalism ‘upside down’, i.e. from profit directly to the ‘common good’.

What does it look like when living space does not end at your front door? More and more people are attracted to community living and see it as a promising alternative for themselves and society.

Megaphon is the Styrian street magazine. It reports on cultural events, social initiatives and the lives of people on the fringes of society.

The interdisciplinary and international research project HIVEOPOLIS aims to use technology to communicate with honey bees so that they can be better protected against environmental pollutants, climate change and also their natural enemies.

The age of cycle paths in Graz began with a nocturnal action staged before a large cycling demonstration in 1980.

Anna Vasof’s works invite us to discover the absurd world theatre behind the wishes and desires of everyday life.

Konrad Frey created a prototype in Hart near Graz for the development of a low-cost prefabricated house with ‘loft quality’.

With the help of the Limnological Institute in Konstanz, Sarah Bildstein analysed water samples from all over the world.

For the painter Alois Mosbacher, the forest is like a cinematic ‘crime scene’. With quick charcoal strokes on monochrome, artificial and cold-looking colour surfaces in oil, he sketches ominously charged scenarios of a man-made and seemingly lost environment.

The ‘Weizer Schafbauern’ – sheep farmers from the Weiz area of Styria – have taken everything into their own hands as a cooperative, from primary production through to processing, refining and marketing. They have received many awards for their initiative, as well as setting quality standards and co-founding the ‘GenussRegion Weizer Berglamm & Schaf’.

Anita Fuchs has rented a meadow on the border between Austria and Slovenia. For months now, she has been working there out of her FIELD STATION – a shiny cube that looks like a minimalist sculpture.

Since 1988, the collective’s transdisciplinary approach has focused on questions of spatial, social and ecological transformation.

Two solar cells, car batteries, a heat pump, hose and cable are combined by visual artist, architect, draughtsman and inventor Markus Jeschaunig to build a utopian machine that uses melting energy to turn water back into ice.

Stanz is not like any other place. It is situated in the heart of the Mürztal valley, which is experiencing structural change and emigration – and yet this community of 1,848 inhabitants grows by a few inhabitants every year. Together with 21 other European towns, it presents its recipe for success to the EU Commission.

In recent years, the ‘Vision, Learning and Optimization’ research group led by Thomas Pock at Graz University of Technology has developed ‘variational networks’ (VNs), which combine the advan-tages of traditional mathematical variational methods with deep learning methods.

The artist Ulrike Königshofer’s work often investigates image realities. For Bad Pictures she went in search of the criteria for image quality or image optimisation.

The panelling of disused ÖBB wagons comes from materialnomaden.

From the 1970s on, Lois Weinberger explored the interdependence of nature and society. He worked on a poetic and political network that directs the focus onto marginal zones and calls into question hierar-chies of various kinds.

The exhibition architecture designed by studio itzo adopts a resource-saving approach on a number of levels. Most of the elements are from previous Kunsthaus exhibitions.

The ‘Physical Internet’ (PI) is a logistics model for an optimised goods transport system that follows the concept of the internet.

The Blue Frog Society is the fictional vision of a future society. Our habitat is no longer shaped by (spatial) property claims, but by communal, non-material values that arise from an open-ended negotiation process and which are based on a broad understanding of commons.

Cooperative, shared and self-determined – can it work?

Drones are growing in importance for civilian and scientific purposes such as search and rescue missions, land surveys, infrastructure inspection and even mail delivery.

This five-minute experimental film by the artist, curator and musician Eva Ursprung focuses on disturbing images such as flickering, colour shifts or image noise in old video recordings.

The housing and construction sector is responsible for a substan-tial part of the production of greenhouse gases – because of its consumption of resources and energy, the construction process, the operation of buildings, their demolition, soil sealing, mobility caused by urban sprawl and other knock-on effects.

The posters and videos on this wall show various forms of social activism and protest in the field of environmental and social policy, civil, human and animal rights.

Club Hybrid is an open demonstration building that will be a place for experimenting, exhibiting and discourse for a fortnight in the summer of 2021.

Rurasmus is an initiative for a European ‘countryside semester’ as an addition to the established Erasmus programme, allowing young people to develop a new perspective on rural Europe.

All that remains of Christian Eisenberger’s artistic interventions in nature are photographs.

The School for Civic Action is an educational experiment that tests alternative approaches to ‘city-making’.

Lightweight ceilings made with the highly innovative digital process need 35 % less material than conventional in-situ concrete ceilings, which are usually the same thickness at all points.

This project is devoted to researching, communicating and promoting humus formation.

Viktoria Zink draws selected organisms, in this instance found in a near-natural beech forest.

Cities and the built densities between them are nothing more than fragments of much larger networks of supply and waste disposal. One of these hubs of regional and transnational routes is formed here by a suspended, expansive framework.

Maroon is an immersive virtual physics laboratory that invites us to try out and understand scientific phenomena.

Researchers in the field of Brain Inspired Computing are using the human brain as a model in an attempt to make AI more energy-efficient.

Founded by the artists Veronika Dreier, Dorothea Konrad, Silvia Ulrich, Eva Ursprung and Anne Wrulich in Graz, Eva & Co. was the first feminist art and culture magazine in Europe.

tim is ‘your ideal companion through everyday mobility’, promises the service, which has been appearing in and around Graz in the form of mobility hubs since 2016.

While many crop varieties have been created over the centuries by constant selection and crossing, so improving the world’s food security, the number of species and varieties in use has been dramat-ically reduced in the course of just a few decades.

This deconstructed furniture was designed by artist, restorer and exhibition designer Erika Thümmel. Positioned in the exhibition and discourse area of Space04, the furniture encourages visitors to pause for a moment.

As a social practice, architecture essentially points to a totality of spatial, technological, social and economic developments.

Offener Betrieb (Open Modes) – and before that Probebetrieb (Trial Mode) – took the idea of a collective, dehierarchised, collaborative and open educational situation as their starting point.

Gaisbacher spent several weeks in Stanz reflecting from an artistic perspective on a successful participation project initiated in 2016 as part of a local revitalisation.

The GrazLog pilot project is developing cooperative logistics on the ‘last mile’ for environmentally friendly and service-oriented inner-city goods transport.

There is currently much talk of the respectful use of natural resources, and large corporations in the food trade are also beginning to take responsibility in this context.

By the year 2050 there will only be a few cars left on the streets of Graz, permanently transforming the cityscape.

Food waste produced in a kitchen is chopped up and converted into biogas in a fermenter – the glass ‘stomach’ of the Kitchen-Cow.

Whether it is in food shops or DIY stores, in specialised shops or as give-aways at events – almost everywhere we now find meadow seed packets containing a diverse mix of species. Their contents can vary greatly, however.

How can an old-fashioned ‘school barracks’ with endless corridors, a listed building, be transformed into a place of forward-thinking education?

The title Haus im Grünen – house in green surroundings – is a reference to property market advertisements.

Flea markets, table-tennis rounds, dancing among the plants, knitting, gardening without a garden of your own ... the long, colourful list of socio-cultural activities in the ANNENViERTEL district since 2014 could go on and on.

Timeular is a remote work company, meaning that its employees are not tied to a physical office and are in fact spread across four continents and nine countries.

An old condom vending machine has been refilled by the Graz-based collective RISOGRAD. Three different packages contain a chronology of feminist activities in Austria, a manifesto collection and an activism packet, practising feminist social criticism.

Erstmals als nachdenkliche Werbebotschaften vom Künstler selbst durch den Stadtraum getragen, verweisen die Botschaften zum Wert von Arbeit oder Kultur auf Abhängigkeiten von Ökonomie, Status und Aufmerksamkeit.

This portrait series by Maryam Mohammadi and Joachim Hainzl was produced in collaboration with the women depicted.

This slender cross-profile column made of beech veneer is a striking example of the effectiveness of wood as a construction material.

First installed in 2010 for the exhibition Mehrwert (added value) in front of the church in Quartier Leech, the fictitious construction sign marked the public garden with fruit trees next to the church as the building site of a spectacular architecture.

Total Refusal takes the video game Red Dead Redemption 2, played millions of times, as the basis for a reflection on the capitalist concept of labour.

The directness of Christian Eisenberger’s group picture of older women is reminiscent of the cardboard figures he placed in public space from the late 1990s onwards.

Many people dream of living a life close to nature, integrated into a community of solidarity. In Fehring, a group have dared to take this step and are transforming a former barracks with a 16-hectare plot of land into an ecovillage by building it themselves.

This series goes back to a postcard edition by Heinrich Hoffmann, Adolf Hitler’s personal photographer. Hoffmann’s photos were published en masse, making a significant contribution to the Führer cult under National Socialism. The artist group G.R.A.M. appropriated and restaged Hoffmann’s depictions.

G.R.A.M.’s film borrows from Charlie Chaplin’s Kid Auto Races at Venice from 1914.

A fictional debt collecting company (Debt BB) codes an algorithm known as the ‘Superdebthunterbot’ to ensure fewer loan defaulters. Five individuals die as a result of the algorithm’s actions.

The 8-Point Plan for Digital Learning sets out the key aims of the Austrian Ministry of Education for digitalisation in schools.

In his temporary material library, the artist Andreas Fogarasi gathers materials used in current building projects.

nonconform is, technically speaking, a firm of architects. But only technically. Following the motto ‘thinking ahead together’, noncon-form develops concepts for a durable, vibrant living environment together with users and key actors in the format ideenwerkstatt, or idea workshop.

Das transdisziplinär arbeitende Kollektiv entwickelt eine unkonventionelle Kühlung, die klimapositives Denken in die Tat umsetzt. Rund 14° kaltes Wasser aus der Grundwasserzisterne unter dem Kunsthaus wird nach oben gepumpt und läuft durch einen Kühlkörper aus dünnen Kupferrohren.

In 1989 Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler exhibited at the Neue Galerie Graz under the title Les Bricoleurs, which describes an artistic approach based on the knowledge of resources, careful observation, listening and letting go.

Especially in agriculture, the communal use of resources has a long tradition. In many areas these traditional rights of use still exist today.

Over the course of days and weeks, disciplined series of numbers have been compiled to record the daily consumption of cigarettes.

‘Alle wollen mehr. Nie genug’ (Everyone wants more. Never enough) – so reads the text of a large-format poster in which Ingeborg Strobl took aim at consumerism.

The International Village Shop (IVS) is a network of rural places where forms of production and trade are tested.

Leftshift One is a Graz-based high-tech company for artificial intelligence (AI) and hyperautomation. The AI specialists provide the Artificial Intelligence Operating System ‘AIOS’ – Europe’s first independent operating system for AI.

Whenever we hear or read about spatial planning, it is often in connection with problems: dying town centres, urban sprawl, the new shopping centre at the entrance to a town.

This 10-part series was selected and compiled by the artists Arnold Reichel and Nina Vobruba from the chat room ‘Kaserne Willfriede’ of the residential community CAMBIUM - Leben in Gemeinschaft.

Mit dem Skizzenstift bauen sich von Menschen gestaltete Szenen im Wald auf. Kurz aufblitzende Fotos überblenden, um gleich darauf zu zerbrechen.

Eisenberger combines classical subjects of art history, ‘vanitas’ motifs that remind us of the ephemerality of existence, with elements from popular culture.

The design of these signs is based on the system of isotypes (Interna-tional System of Typographic Picture Education). This was developed in 1925 by Otto Neurath who, as a Jew, fled from Vienna in 1934.

The daily work routine of many companies is filled with monotonous tasks that are necessary but take up a lot of time.

The mobility pyramid represents the distribution of different forms of mobility.

Drawing on the knowledge of over 450,000 users, the ‘Bike Citizens Analytics’ tool and GPS cycling data also support cities and planners in continuously improving their cycling infrastructure.

Elke Auer combines sculptural and performative elements with language, drawing and painting. Her work addresses the constructed nature of gender identities and seeks to break down hierarchising, normative attributions.

This work is part of the multi-year artistic research project Mapping Painting, which pursues the question of where the colours, pigments and binding agents in a painting come from.

The first One Minute Sculptures were created in 1997. They call on visitors to follow the artist’s sometimes absurd instructions.

In Reclaiming Abundance, global temperatures and the associated disasters have also continued to increase in Styria.

The MyCera (Mycelium and Ceramics) project is developing a composite material made of clay, pulp and mycelium. Brick-like modules are 3D printed from clay, allowing complex and light forms that would not be possible from conventional extrusion processes.

To live in a self-determined way, in an equal, diverse house community, without having to move out again at some point because of rent increases – this is one goal of self-managed, solidarity-based housing projects.

As an open platform of the Styrian People’s Party in the 1970s and 1980s, the Modell Steiermark (Styrian Model) discussed future issues in all areas of society – open-ended, controversial and extending beyond the horizon of a legislative period.

‘We are not blocking traffic – we ARE traffic!’ is the motto of the Critical Mass participants who ride through the streets of Graz on the last Friday of every month, colourful and loud, with joy and self-confidence, celebrating the most beautiful form of transport in the world.

Angelika Loderer presents a collection of unusual eggs: rejects that have no place in our standardised food industry.

The web application Zeitlinie Graz presents the development of the tram and suburban railway network in Graz from its beginnings in 1878 to the present day.

Like the exhibition itself, the drawing shows that tracing future approaches to our finite planet Earth calls for not only many different voices, but also the childlike courage to explore new paths. Without losing our balance.

Animals hunted in the city are cooked, self-made window barricades and long-serving radios protect against threatening weather and marauding urban hunters.

An important theme in studio ASYNCHROME’s work is democratic participation.

As a resistance to stereotypes and racism, Maryam Mohammadi produced a series of self-portraits showing herself on a contradictory path to blonde and blue-eyed conformity.

A Space Transformer is an adapted cargo bike that easily and legally transforms a car parking space into public space to be used by everyone.

The photogram depicts a tensioned load securing net made of synthetic material on a scale of 1:1.

Beyond purely technological research, move2zero is developing a holistic concept for the complete decarbonisation of the urban bus system in Graz.

Since 2015, an open collective of artists and scientists has been developing the non-profit Neuberg College in collaboration with the town of Neuberg an der Mürz. It is devoted to process-open learning and engages with its rural surroundings.

The Burschenschaft Hysteria is an association and a feminist project that satirically adopts and adapts the rituals and modes of speaking found in traditional male student fraternities.

Building rubble and fragments of sculpture cover the floor in Martin Roth’s sound and space installation. A posthuman landscape of ruin – yet solitary pioneer plants are reclaiming the signs of humankind’s exploitation and destructive power.

The protagonists of this video are young people, melancholic and mournful – full of wistfulness and gloom. Their mental state characterises a condition marked by uncertainty and lacking any security.

In order to raise awareness of this state of affairs, the artist Adina Camhy designed posters that call for more appreciation of care work. NO MORE BITTER PILLS continues her project. The posters were shown in the exhibition HILFSLINIEN - Linije pomoči in the Pavelhaus – Pavlova hiša, but were also distributed in public space.

In 1980, Peter Fend, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Jenny Holzer, Peter Nadin, Richard Prince and Robin Winters founded the ‘Ocean Earth Construction and Development Corporation’ (OECD), generally known as ‘Ocean Earth’. Artists, architects and scientists collaborate in an interdisciplinary approach, with interests that include carbon-free energy production (such as solar and wind energy, energy from ocean circulation, conversion of organic waste, hydrogen) and mariculture facilities for algae production.

Behind the ‘store of the future’ is a collaboration between four regional local suppliers: three long-established traders from the area around Graz and a start-up founder from the city of Graz.

This board will display a growing collection of opinions and current information related to education and mediation.

For a roof of approximately 100 m² over a studio space in Schloss Seehof in Lunz am See, 130 different 3D-printed concrete recess formers were digitally planned, produced automatically and installed by hand.

Samson Ogiamien’s work is a meeting between Beninese bronze art, which has its roots in spiritual, ritual contexts, and Western modern sculptural traditions.

Livestreaming video games brings together millions of people from all over the world. Among the livestreaming portals, Twitch.tv is the leading platform.

Targets are constructs made from telescopic antennas and golf balls placed in various positions in the Kunsthaus – on the ceiling, walls and floors.

As far as possible, artificial intelligence should eliminate human error. However, even an AI application is not totally error-free.

Through the medium of photography, Zita Oberwalder regularly creates narrative pictorial spaces that are ‘read’ as one walks.

It is no secret that our affluent society is also a throw-away society: plastic waste is accumulating in the oceans, electronic waste ends up as an environmental problem in the global south.

Iris Andraschek’s research into the current topic of care work once again focuses on making social participation visible.

The BIX Light and Media Façade consumes as much energy per year as an average detached house

As a crucial pollinator, the honey bee is currently a hot topic. The role of wild bees in the pollination process, however, is still unknown to wide sections of the population.

The HEUTE Bibliothek is a collection of books that have the word HEUTE (today) in their titles in order to emphasise their current relevance.

The Hydrogen Center Austria conducts research into the vision of a renewable energy system. Due to its versatility, hydrogen plays a key role.

Alfredo Barsuglia collaborated with the Ortweinschule Graz to build a small temporary art museum on the Kunsthaus forecourt. Suahtsnuk – Kunsthaus backwards – is both an urban sculpture and an alternative art space. As ‘the other alien’, it is open and freely accessible whenever the Kunsthaus Graz is closed.

In Cradle to Cradle®, all waste becomes food in an approach that follows nature’s principle. Designed by chemist Michael Braungart and architect William McDonough, this is an eco-effective system in which resources remain in a complete cycle.

By now almost all of us are familiar with the self-service area at the post office – where you can pick up and drop off parcels 24 hours a day. But a ‘Paketbox’ parcel box can do even more than this.

Founded in 2018, this non-profit association offers an innovative provision and care model.

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) have already become the norm in our vehicles in recent years, from lane keeping, parking and braking assist to adaptive cruise control. The next step – the transition from assisted to partially and fully automated driving – is already on the horizon.

Blubber pours out of the vents of the building like clouds of beer foam, clusters of shiny plastic balls that appear on all of the levels.

The ‘Urban Camping’ of the identity-building Rostfest festival and the Alpin Resort are proof of the strategy’s success, as is the Nordic Education Center (NAZ) and the ‘Forschungszentrum am Berg’ research site.

Two main directions can be found among the various concepts of basic income – an economic liberal approach and a humanistic emancipatory approach.

T-shirts and bags from her artistic environment were the first collected objects that the illustrator and co-author of Tonto Comics Edda Strobl drew for her constantly growing series Favorite Objects.

Liu Xiaodong belongs to the generation of Chinese artists who grew up at a time of rural exodus and explosive growth in the major cities.

In Go out on a limb, Angelika Loderer once again focuses on the appropriation of a found form and the interplay between snapshot and control.

For over 20 years now, ‘gentle viticulture’ has been practised south of Gamlitz – no fertilisation, low maintenance measures, minimal plant protection.

It is a well-known problem that farmers usually do not get a fair price for their products and often do not have the time, money or talent to market them directly.

Arnold Reinisch’s works are situated between photography and installation. He makes everyday objects and plastic materials into elaborately handcrafted depictions of a posthuman life form.

With the controversial title of Only Poverty Has a Future, Huth’s contribution is a plea for the frugal use of resources.

As a medium between two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality, the photogram has been part of Kupelwieser’s diverse œuvre from the 1980s until today.

In den zwei Forschungsprojekten WoodC.A.R. und CARpenTiER werden die Grundlagen für den Einsatz von Holz in Strukturkomponenten im Fahrzeugbau entwickelt.

The artist and graphic designer Karl Neubacher was one of the pioneers of avant-garde and conceptual art in Graz.

Schule im Aufbruch is an international initiative in German-speaking countries that advocates holistic and transformative education. It was founded to promote ‘education as the development of potential’.

Five chains showing the predicted dates of ends of the world that did not take place, and those that are still to come.

Auer investigates the toilet signs at the Kunsthaus, challenging tradi-tional gender images and divisions with her artistic, interventionist commentaries.

The steel trusses that fit so well into the architecture of the Kunsthaus have had a previous life.

Built in 2014, the Mariagrün primary school is a passive building made mainly of wood and located on a green-field site in Graz. This welcoming, light and airy structure provides a range of options in the space that support the school’s progressive approach to education, providing an environment for eight classes.

The experimental architectural study The Living Arch combines biology, technology and design in the quest for healthy and comfort-able spaces.