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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’.