Kunsthaus Graz, Art museum in Graz, Austria.
The Kunsthaus Graz is a bulbous blue structure clad in iridescent acrylic panels, designed by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier. Its skin is dotted with small light points, and nine nozzle-like protrusions extend from the upper surface. A glass-enclosed walkway juts from the left side, and the building connects to the 1848 Iron House façade. A white curved section below lists directions to the Intendanz, Camera Austria, Medienkunstlabor, and other spaces.
The Kunsthaus Graz opened in 2003, the year Graz was European Capital of Culture, following a design by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier. It was built around the façade of the Iron House, an iron-framed structure erected in 1848. Peter Pakesch served as founding director from 2003 until the end of his directorship at the Universalmuseum Joanneum.
The museum's name is used in German even in English communications. Its programme covers architecture, design, new media, internet art, film and photography, and it neither collects art nor keeps a permanent display or depot. The BIX facade, 930 fluorescent lamps behind the eastern acrylic skin, was added to MoMA's Architecture and Design Collection in 2011.
Open Tuesday through Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00 with standard admission of 11 euros for adults and free entry for children. The building sits roughly 1,000 feet (300 meters) south of downtown along the eastern bank of the Mur River, accessible via tram lines 1, 3, 6 and 7 to Kunsthaus stop. Audio guides are available for a fee.
The building's exterior functions as a BIX media facade featuring 930 integrated fluorescent tubes that can display moving images and artistic projections across the entire surface after nightfall. This installation was developed by Berlin-based artist collective realities:united and transforms the architecture itself into a medium for digital art and public communication.
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