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The Kunsthaus Graz, Grazer Kunsthaus, or Graz Art Museum was built as part of the European Capital of Culture celebrations in 2003 and has since become an architectural landmark in Graz, Austria. Its exhibition program specializes in contemporary art from the 1960s onwards.[1]

Architecture

Kunsthaus Graz was designed by Colin Fournier and Sir Peter Cook. According to The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, the Kunsthaus' design sought to be deliberately provocative, innovate museum design by offering a less "institutional" approach to organising exhibition spaces and employs new materials and manufacturing techniques.[2] The building is an example of blob architecture, and has a skin made of iridescent blue acrylic panels that also double as photovoltaic panels.[3] Owing to its shape contrasting with its surroundings,[4] it is known in local vernacular as the "Friendly Alien".[3] or rather as the black tumor.^{[citation needed]}

The building incorporates the façade of the Eisernes Haus, a iron-framed structure built in 1848.[5]

Concept

Architecture, design, new media, internet art, film, and photography are united under one roof. Kunsthaus Graz was developed as an institution to stage international exhibitions of multidisciplinary, modern and contemporary art from the 1960s to the present day.[1] It does not collect art, maintains no permanent exhibitions and does not have its own depot.[6] Rather, its exclusive purpose is to present and procure contemporary art productions.[4]

As founding director, Peter Pakesch was responsible for the orientation and the program of the Kunsthaus between the administration in 2003 and the end of his directorship at the Universalmuseum Joanneum.[7]

BIX Façade

The BIX Façade of the museum represents a singular fusion from architecture and New Media and is based on a concept of the Berliner architects realities:united.[8] BIX, a name which consists of the words "Big" and "pixels", is the acrylic glass skin of the eastern side of the building, which consists of 930 fluorescent lamps whose brightness can be individually adjusted. Variable at 20 frames per second, the facade can be used as a large screen for films and animations in what is referred to as a "communicative display skin".[8]

The BIX facade concept was entered into the permanent Architecture and Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York in 2011.[9]

Other

On 1 May 2011, the Austrian Postal Service released a postage stamp commemorating the object as part of the Kunsthäuser permanent stamp series.[10]

To mark the tenth anniversary of the Kunsthaus, Ingo J. Biermann, Fiene Scharp and Kai Miedendorp made a short half-documentary film in and about the building. The film Astronaut's Ark was conceived for the Kultur:Stadt exhibition, which took place from March to June 2013 at the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) and from July to October 2013 at the Kunsthaus Graz.[11]

Literature

• Cook, Peter & Fournier, Colin. A Friendly Alien: Ein Kunsthaus fur Graz. Hatje Cantz Publishers. September 30, 2004. ISBN 3-7757-1350-6

References

External links

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• Kunsthaus Graz
• (in German) The geometry of the Kunsthaus Graz
• (in German) BIX Medienfassade

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[de] Kunsthaus Graz

Das Kunsthaus Graz wurde im Rahmen des Kulturhauptstadtjahres 2003 errichtet und gilt seither als neues architektonisches Wahrzeichen der Stadt Graz. Das Bauwerk, dessen Ausstellungsprogramm die zeitgenössische Kunst der letzten fünf Jahrzehnte umfasst, ist Teil des Universalmuseums Joanneum.

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- [en] Kunsthaus Graz

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[es] Kunsthaus Graz

La Kunsthaus Graz (en alemán, Grazer Kunsthaus o Graz Art Museum) es un museo austríaco obra de Spacelab (Peter Cook y Colin Fournier). Fue uno de los edificios construidos en 2003, año en que Graz fue la capital europea de la cultura. Está especializado en el arte contemporáneo, de las últimas cuatro décadas. Todo su programa expositivo se compone de exposiciones itinerantes, siendo un museo que carece de colección propia.

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[fr] Kunsthaus Graz

Le musée d'art de Graz (en allemand : Kunsthaus Graz, littéralement la maison (« Haus ») d'art (« Kunst »)) est le musée d'art de la ville autrichienne de Graz. Le musée a été construit en vue des manifestations culturelles de 2003 alors que la ville était capitale européenne de la culture, et est depuis l'un des principaux monuments de la ville.

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[it] Kunsthaus Graz

La Kunsthaus Graz (in lingua italiana casa dell'arte) è un museo d'arte a Graz, in Austria.

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