kunstGarten

kunstGarten / ArtGarden promotes contemporary art, and in particular, garden art: it introduces gardens as spaces where art takes place.

By means of projects, exhibitions, talks, performances, readings, and concerts, this non profit orientated society connects people who work in this field, and others who have an interest in the subject: it puts a garden at their disposal, a specialist library and a video collection.

A garden means hands-on reality in situ, a metaphor and a spiritual place in visu, and a cathartic experience in actu. Philipper Nyx: Ethik und Ästhetik des Gartens. In: Kunstforum. Vol. 145, p. 74. Cologne, 1999.

Remarkable

• kunstgarten was picked by The Culture Trip as one of our Graz Local Favorites 2015: The Top 7 Parks In Graz
• 2015 the book KUNSTGARTENKUNST by Cordula Hamann (author and landscape architect) was published by DVA in September, 2015. Of all gardens presented there are only two from Austria: kunstGarten and Skulpturenpark (Joanneum Graz). 
• 2014 kunstGarten get an extra bonus from BKA as recognition of cultural activities.
• kunstGarten and our GARTENLABYRINTH (Hartmut Skerbisch) – Dr. Schlossarpark/Auf der Tändelwiese were declared Well feel places for a consciously healthy life in the Wohl-Fühl-Kompass / Kompas dobrega pocutja (EU-Project), presented at 3rd of February 2012 at Grazer Rathaus (you find it at: Stadt Graz Bürgermeisteramt, Amtshaus, Portier im Rathaus).  
• kunstGarten one nominated for Staatspreis Tourismus 2007 “Garten Eden Österreich” // GardenEden Austria  tourism-state-award 2007.