Habitat Graz
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Graz Museum
15.05.2024 – 23.02.2025
Welcome to Habitat Graz.
This exhibition focused on Graz’s changing urban ecologies: the city as a living organism, always moving and evolving. It displayed selected stories of how new habitats are established by newcomers and stable habitats are destroyed under a new construction site, while damaged habitats are regenerated in a synergy of surprising collaborations. Who has shaped and is shaping the city?
We, earthlings, live in an entangled multispecies world. It includes diverse non-human entities such as plants, animals, fungi, natural phenomena, soil compositions and water bodies. Habitat Graz offers the perception that the city and each of us are part of the interdependent and complex biosphere. It highlights the urgency of taking responsibility for Earth as a home for all: a matter of interspecies justice and collective survival. With this in mind, and in the awareness of these uncertainties, this exhibition blurs the borders between categories. Nature shapes culture, culture shapes nature, art merges with science, and history changes according to which voices are heard.
Many people have contributed to assembling these narratives: local and international artists, mostly living, but some already dead; experts from the academic and scientific communities, from the city administration, and also primary school children, university students, neighbourhood associations, and inhabitants with a story to tell. We also interviewed the crows, the mushrooms and a few trees; we listened to the stones and spoke to the Mur.
Now we invite you to join us on this journey towards multispecies world-building.
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Heartfelt thanks to all the collaborators and partners (human & more-than-human) who helped co-creating this exhibition – before, during and beyond the framework of this show.
With artworks by: Anaïs Horn, Andrea Acosta (site-specific/ commission), Anita Fuchs, Barbara Schmid, Conrad Kreuzer, Environmental Performance Agency, ILA, Josef Kuwasseg, Livia Weindl, Lois Weinberger, Mandy Mozart (site-specific/ commission), Marjetica Potrč, Markus Jeschaunig, Nicole Pruckermayr, Nobertine Bressler-Roth, Polonca Lovšin, Reni Hofmüller, and the kids of Volksschule Triester and Projektschule Graz.
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Curator: Daniela Brasil
Project management: Ogül Büber-Ottitsch, Franziska Schurig
Curatorial assistance: Vanessa Bednarek, Anna Monsberger
Cooperations: Vanessa Bednarek
Exhibition design and graphics: BUERO41A
photo credits: Nikola Milatović
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