Exhibition review
Exhibition review
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OPEN THE LINK.
2017
The annual exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art will, in 2017, provide vivid insights into the Abbey’s past 20 years of collecting present-day artworks, an activity that commenced in 1997. -
Heaven’s inferno dress
2017
Carola Willbrand lives and works near Cologne; since 1981 projects, exhibitions, performances, artist books using materials of daily life: wallpaper, carpet, worn clothes. The thread ties all my materials together. The metaphor ‘thread’ is the image for life. -
Gothic museum
2017
Collection Mayer – Art from the Middle Ages – the first time in Austria - since 2017 in the Admont monastery. -
Neo/New – Rediscoveries in the Museum of Fine Art
2017
To complement the unique exhibition of Gothic art that has been on view in the museum of Admont Abbey from May 2017, Admont’s Museum of Fine Arts has been putting several special rarities on display in the 2017 and 2018 season. Please have a look at the winter opening times! -
Manuscript exhibition 2017
2017
Review to the manuscript-exhibition of 2017: The majority of the 1000 medieval manuscripts held by Admont Benedictine Abbey, some of which were actually produced here, date to the Gothic era. -
Fire and Flame – The ‘Great Fire’ of Admont: 1865 to today
2015
The theme of our special exhibition for 2015 was the disastrous fire of April 1865. This catastrophe was the worst calamity to befall the Abbey since its foundation in 1045 . 2015 marked the 150th anniversary of the event. -
Admont Guests
2014
ARTISTS´ BOOKS. International works dating from 1960 from eight collections ǀ Admont Guests: The world of mechanical animals. A photo safari by Sebastian Köpcke and Volker Weinhold
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Diversity is the spice of life!
2013
Emil Siemeister – Artistic intervention in the Museum of Fine Arts ǀ Bibliotheca universalis – The diversity of a medieval library -
Beyond Seeing
2012
Admont Abbey Museum collects internationally important contemporary art and at the core of the collecting activities is the commissioning of works for the in-house MADE FOR ADMONT series. Since 2001 and as part of the ‘collection in progress’ project, 27 artists have created at the behest of the Abbey artworks… -
A passion for collecting
2011
Admont Guests: Five art collections from Styria in dialogue with the Abbey’s contemporary art collection ǀ Rudi Molacek – Installation in the Columned Hall ǀ Conversations and podium discussion “Collecting Art” ǀ Karl Leitgeb – Artistic intervention in the Museum of Fine Arts ǀ Abbot Antonius Gratiadei, humanist and book… -
Best of Admont 2010
2010
PLAY ADMONT – A playful introduction to contemporary international art. Regionale 2010] ǀ Werner Reiterer – Artistic intervention in the Museum of Fine Arts ǀ The Four Latin Church Fathers -
Nature – Creation is not yet finished
2009
Art • Collected & Made for Admont 2009 ǀ Admont Guests: the Prinzhorn Heidelberg Collection ǀ Interdisciplinary symposia “CREATIVITY at the crossroads of art, medicine, therapy, spirituality and society” ǀ Wilhelm Scherübl –Artistic intervention in the Museum of Fine Arts ǀ The Apostle Paulus -
Focus Library
2008
A feeling for books; exhibition project by Petra Gratzl and Anton Knoll ǀ Stefan Emmelmann – Artistic intervention in the Museum of Fine Arts ǀ Canon law in the Middle Ages -
I feel something you can’t see – Sensing art
2007
Michael Kienzer, Tobias Pils, Markus Wilfling (individual exhibitions) ǀ Art • Collected & Made for Admont 2007 ǀ Thomas Baumann and Martin Kaltner – Artistic intervention in the Museum of Fine Arts ǀ The ancient knowledge of the diversity of Nature -
Paradise – Snakes not admitted
2006
No hard feelings, Admont 1938 – 1945, Life today; a photo exhibition by Felicitas Kruse ǀ Art • Collected & Made for Admont 2006 ǀ Emil Siemeister, Floating while falling (spagyric) ǀ Konrad Rainer, Admont photo project 2006 ǀ Norbert Trummer – Artistic intervention in the Museum of Fine Arts… -
Exhibition of the collection ǀ Thomas Reinhold & Julie Hayward – synergie: paradox
2005
Religion and Church in Styria 1945 – 2005 ǀ Ecclesiastical and world history ǀ The Library transformed – Wonder and Metamorphosis; with the installations “Palimpsest II” by Andreas Horlitz in the Abbey library and “Library of Transformed Information” by Wolfgang Becksteiner in the Columned Hall ǀ Markus Wilfling – Artistic… -
Exhibition of new acquisitions
2004
Playground Contemporary Art ǀ Alfred Klinkan (1950–1994) –A different way of painting ǀ Ingeborg Strobl – Artistic intervention in the Museum of Fine Arts ǀ Books for use in worship -
Opening of the new museum
2003
Karl Leitgeb . ‘Radio collection of Mr Bernegger’ . City-Country-Art; Graz City of Culture 2003 – Made for Admont ǀ Collection of contemporary art ǀ Franz Graf – Artistic intervention in the Museum of Fine Arts ǀ The Bible, the book of books
