Kurt Ryslavy
2023
Kurt Ryslavy's special exhibition 2023 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Admont Abbey showcased his artistic practice in order to pose questions about (art) value in both qualitative and quantitative terms.
Works by Nikola Irmer in the Museum of Natural History
2022
In the Natural History Museum of Admont Abbey, works of contemporary art by Nikola Irmer were in dialogue with the historical specimens there and the current special exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2022.
Heribert Friedl - Artistic Intervention
2022
Since 2003, the Museum of Fine Arts (Kunsthistorisches Museum) has set up a space for artistic interventions. A space for resonance, for dialogue: the sacred with the profane, the past with the present.
Styrian Roots
2022
The 2022 special exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Admont Abbey will show works from "Styrian Roots". When the collection of contemporary art at Admont Abbey was first established, it became apparent that many of the artists represented in this new part of the collection were born in Styria or are rooted in the region in some other way.
Power and "new media" on the threshold of the early modern era
2022
Throughout his reign, Emperor Maximilian I commissioned important scholars and artists to capture his deeds and foundations in words and pictures. His memory, his ‘Gedechtnus’, was to be preserved for posterity and be an example to future monarchs. He made use of new techniques and strategies that were developed on the threshold of the early modern era.
Special exhibition
2022
WE FRIEDRICH III & MAXIMILIAN I - Cultural heritage on the move!
In last year's museum season, two emperors from the transitional period between the Middle Ages and modern times made their entrance - in the neighbouring rooms of the permanent Gothic exhibition on the ground floor and extended into the manuscript room on the first floor. Frederick III and Maximilian I of the House of Habsburg - father and son.
Special exhibition
2021
WE FRIEDRICH III & MAXIMILIAN I - Their world and their time
In the extended Gothic Museum, Admont Abbey presented a special exhibition on the two Habsburg personalities Frederick III and his son Maximilian I in their dynastic network and their environment. This period covered the transition from the late Middle Ages with the late Gothic period to the Renaissance. More than 200 exhibits from 46 lenders guaranteed you a powerful and expressive encounter.
Insects
2020
In the 2020 season, the Artistic Intervention Room at the Kunsthistorisches Museum will be decorated with paper cut-outs on the theme of "Insects" by the artist Lisa Huber. Huber is not interested in naturalistic closeness in the depiction, but rather in abstraction, schematisation and, not least, ornamentalisation, following the historical models.
Locations - MADE FOR ADMONT #fotografie
2020
The 2021 special exhibition represents the broad spectrum of MADE FOR ADMONT photographs with a selection from the monastery's own collection. The works on display are the result of specific localisation processes relating to the region, the monastery and the people who work here, the museum and its contents.
Walden
2019
A silver fir tree was felled in the monastery forest of Admont Abbey and processed into 1,500 wooden slats, stacked and transported by train, lorry and boat to the Brazilian rainforest. WALDEN portrays the paradoxical journey of the pile of wooden slats along globalised trade routes to its mysterious final destination, Campinha on the middle Rio Negro near an indigenous community in the middle of the Amazon, using 360° scenes full of time.
Play Art
2019
As an approach to this special theme, artists deal with being blind or visually impaired in different ways. Hands-on artworks offer blind and sighted people the same access to contemporary art.
Of Abrogans and Nibelungs
2018
Monasteries are real treasure troves when it comes to old documents. Time and again, legendary documents are found in the archives. The exhibition shows sensational finds from nine Austrian monasteries.
Beauty and aspiration
2017
With the Museum of Contemporary Art in Admont Abbey and the House of Contemporary Art of the Diocese of Graz-Seckau, Styria is unrivalled in Europe in terms of the density of contemporary art in the context of the church. Over 50 works provide an insight into the various collections.
OPEN THE LINK.
2017
Admont Abbey has been collecting contemporary art since 1997. Acquisitions and commissioned art by around 170 Austrian artists are represented in the collection. OPEN THE LINK. provides an insight into the growth of the collection and the works themselves.
SkyHellDress
2017
The space for artistic intervention will be designed by Carola Willbrand in 2017. A bell-shaped chasuble sewn from handmade textile paper occupies the space.
NEO/NEW - Rediscovered at the Kunsthistorisches Museum
2017
Inspired by the unique Gothic exhibition, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Admont is also showing some special rarities in the 2017 and 2018 season
Manuscript exhibition 2017
2017
A look back at the 2017 manuscript exhibition: Of the 1000 medieval manuscripts kept at Admont Benedictine Abbey, some of which were created here, the majority date back to the Gothic period.
To eat with pleasure
2016
The inspiration for this multi-faceted special exhibition comes from the "bookworms" who were at work in the Abbey Library. The various areas of the museum look at the topic of "eating" from different angles, from cookery performances to manuscripts on livestock.
Fire - both a curse and a blessing
2015
Fire has fascinated mankind for as long as we can remember. Fire provides warmth and light. Fire can be used to prepare food, fend off wild animals and process metals - into swords or ploughshares.
At the same time, people experience fire as a threat. Villages and towns, forests and fields burn to the ground. Fire serves as a weapon and destroys life. The fires of hell blaze just as much as the pyres of witches.