Wie sind die Öffnungszeiten?

Montag 09:00 - 12:00 Dienstag 09:00 - 12:00 Mittwoch 09:00 - 12:00 Donnerstag 09:00 - 12:00 Freitag 09:00 - 12:00

IZK Institute for Contemporary Art

Startseite
österreich
Graz
IZK Institute for Contemporary Art

IZK Institute for Contemporary Art at the Graz University of Technology

IZK Institute for Contemporary Art (Institut für Zeitgenössische Kunst) is part of the Architecture Faculty of the Graz University of Technology

29/09/2026

Winter semester 2026/27
155.103 SE Workshop I (spezialisierte Themen)

Soft Models
Experiments with Felt

Image: One Sheep Sweater (2010), ©Christien Meindertsma

29/09/2026

Winter semester 2026/27
Specialization module C22: New Genres of Art

Soft
Art, Technology, and Other Ways of Making

155.771 Art Production
155.769 Material Relations I
155.770 Material Relations II

Image: Alicja Kwade, Stella Stella (2022), ©Roman März

25/09/2026

✨ Thanks to everyone who participated in the feminist political ecology workshop, Metabolic Commons: Against Entropic Zones and the Ecology That War Built - organised by Rose-Anne Gush and Antonia Majaca, between IZK and NICHE Centre for Environmental Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

These brilliant intense and memorable days explored how the frameworks that govern environmental governance and climate policy inherit from Cold War military research, colonial field sites and postwar techno-scientific infrastructures, which shaped both, which questions could be asked, and which were foreclosed. In that lineage, life was progressively reformulated as a thermodynamic process, onto which competition was encoded as an ecological necessity. The ecology that naturalised maximum energy describes an ecosystem and a market economy with identical indifference to what is being maximised, for whom, and at whose expense. This ecology survives in ecosystem services, carbon stocks and natural capital; rearmament and the green transition are being financed at the very same moment. Without critical reflection, the transition reorganises the structure it claims to resolve, shifting the extractive frontier and subsidising itself with reproductive and subsistence labour.

The workshop brought together work by architects, artists, philosophers, sociologists and theorists: Farah Alkhoury, Marwa Arsanios, Marco Baravalle, Valentina Bonifacio, Aleksei Borisionok, Carina Brand, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Michaela Büsse, Louise Carver, Christina Chalmers, Maria Chekhonadskikh, Giulia Dal Maso, Antonio del Giudice, Jeff Diamanti, Lama El Khatib, Lorenzo Feltrin, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Katerina Genidogan, Rose-Anne Gush, Terike Haapoja, Henrike Kohpeiß, Wietske Maas, Antonia Majaca, Jason W. Moore, Kellie O’Dempsey, Andreas Petrossiants, Jasmine Pisapia, Roberta Raffaetà, Philipp Sattler, Francesca Tarocco, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Jule Ulbricht, Avi Varma, Morgan P. Vickers, and Ana Vilenica.

🌱 We are incredibly grateful to everyone - old and new friends - for participating, for thinking together and creating such enriching knowledge and insight.

Photos: Marija Jančić

04/09/2026

☀️ SAVE THE DATE 🌱

Metabolic Commons: Against Entropic Zones and the Ecology That War Built

21–22 September 2026
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Full programme to be announced soon.

Curated by Rose-Anne Gush (Graz University of Technology) and Antonia Majaca (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

Organised by the Radical Epistemologies: Political Ecology and Transversal Praxis research cluster at NICHE Centre for Environmental Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, in collaboration with IZK – Institute for Contemporary Art, Graz University of Technology, and HealthXCross ERC. Workshop committee: Rose-Anne Gush, Antonia Majaca, Roberta Raffaetà

tugraz.arch NICHE — Ca' Foscari, Venice

05/08/2026

🔸WE ARE HIRING

We are seeking two independent artist-researchers with an interest in artistic research, contemporary art practice, and transdisciplinary methods who will collaboratively develop their work within the framework of the institute’s research priorities.

🔹 Apply via the respective links in our bio

05/08/2026

🔹 WE ARE HIRING

We are seeking two independent artist-researchers with an interest in artistic research, contemporary art practice, and transdisciplinary methods who will collaboratively develop their work within the framework of the institute’s research priorities.

🔸 Apply via the respective links in our bio

14/07/2026

✨ Documentation from the final Assembly! within the course, Assembly! Towards an Infrastructural Commons, led by Rose-Anne Gush and Olia Sosnovskaya

Students have worked with the Assembly as a form of collaborative learning, artistic mediation and knowledge production - while exploring subjugated histories of partisan struggle against N**i fascism on the Austrian - Slovenian borderlands; Muzej/Museum Peršman; the question of witnessing; notions and figures of liberation ecology; the role of the home in its ambivalent meanings of safety and entrapment; and the complexity of the landscape as archive.

Congratulations to all students: Louise Dahlweid, Helena Fernsebner, Samuel Gruber, Rebekka Hiemesch, Leila Jahić, Chiara Reisinger, Matthias Schröck, Lukas Seliger, Bojana Sikanic, Dehli Stach, Anna Störzinger, Mara Tolpeit.

Special thanks to our guest jury: Budour Khalil (IZK TU Graz), Rojda Tuğrul (Independent Artist), Philipp Sattler (PhD Candidate, Royal College of Art, London), Markus Gönitzer (Muzej/Museum Peršman), Katrin Nahidi (Art History, University of Graz)

02/07/2026

Finding the Shape Described by an Absence

IZK at Graz Open Architecture

June 26, 2026

Congratulations to all students for completing the semester, that was our Sommerfest ✨

Photos: © IZK

03/06/2026

IZK LECTURE SERIES
SUMMER 2026

We are excited to announce the second lecture in this semester’s IZK Lecture Series by Sofia Bempeza!
Learning from Rivers and Mountains - On Storytelling and Intersectional Art Pedagogies

Prof. Dr. phil. Sofia Bempeza is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, theorist, researcher, and a poet (She-Dandy).
Her* work is focused on the politics of dissent, queer-feminist art and knowledge practices, storytelling and decolonial educational practices. Her* theoretical and artistic research concerns the history of art strike(s), polyphonic aesthetics, the cultural strategies of the far right and the anti-gender narratives. She* publishes poetry, theory, and critical fabulation in multilingual magazines/editions, and has been working in collaborations within groups and art collectives in Athens, Berlin, Zürich, and Turkiye. Together with Prof.
Dr. Annette Krauss, Sofia Bempeza co-heads the Department Art and Communication Practices at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

8 June 2026, 18.00
HALLE, Kronesgasse 5/1, 8010 Graz
All welcome!

21/05/2026

✨ CALL FOR PAPERS ✨

Metabolic Commons: Against Entropic Zones and the Ecology That War Built

Feminist political ecology workshop: call for papers

September 21–22, 2026
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Sestiere Dorsoduro, 3246
Venice 30123
Italy

Organized by the Radical Epistemologies: Political Ecology and Transversal Praxis research cluster at NICHE Centre for Environmental Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, in collaboration with IZK—Institute for Contemporary Art, Graz University of Technology, and HealthXCross ERC at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Curated by Rose-Anne Gush (Graz University of Technology) and Antonia Majaca (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice).

Adresse

Kronesgasse 5
Graz
8010

Öffnungszeiten

Montag	09:00 - 12:00
Dienstag	09:00 - 12:00
Mittwoch	09:00 - 12:00
Donnerstag	09:00 - 12:00
Freitag	09:00 - 12:00

Telefon

+43 (316) 873 – 4721

Webseite

http://izk.tugraz.at/

Benachrichtigungen

Lassen Sie sich von uns eine E-Mail senden und seien Sie der erste der Neuigkeiten und Aktionen von IZK Institute for Contemporary Art erfährt. Ihre E-Mail-Adresse wird nicht für andere Zwecke verwendet und Sie können sich jederzeit abmelden.