In fall 2025, the Kunsthaus Graz will open an exhibition that confronts the fragilities of our present: Unseen Futures to Come. Fall. It explores the uncertainty that characterizes our lives today - and makes it clear that this is more than just a feeling. Environmental destruction, political instability, wars, refugee movements and the merciless exploitation of people and resources are causing old certainties to crumble. What we are experiencing are not just crises, but profound upheavals that are shaking the foundations of our civilization.
The focus is on the question of the invisible mechanisms of power. Who decides which lives are protected and which are sacrificed? Power appears here not as something tangible, but as a network of relationships that operates in political structures, economic systems and social practices - and that reproduces existing inequalities. This is precisely where the ambivalence lies: while power reinforces insecurity, resistance simultaneously opens up new perspectives for change.
Adelita Husni Bey, from the series Briganti, Difesa (Defense) (Image Theatre warm up), 2023, Courtesy of the artist and Laveronica Gallery, Modica
Twelve artistic positions deal with this tension. Bill Viola leads us into contemplative visual worlds that allow us to experience the relationship between life and death in meditative slowness. Dana Awartani develops poetic forms of resistance from destroyed ornaments. The Austrian artist group zweintopf confronts social routines with subtle interventions that question the familiar. And Yhonnie Scarce from Australia combines fragile glass objects with the memory of colonial history and trauma - her contribution is being realized with the support of the Australian Embassy.
A centerpiece of the show is Fall. A Library of Twilight Worlds, the library designed by philosopher Federico Campagna. Around 250 books dealing with transitions, uncertainty and new beginnings are gathered here. Autumn becomes a metaphor: a time when certainties disappear, knowledge dissolves, but space is also created for new ways of thinking.
Unseen Futures to Come. Fall interweaves opposites - love and death, chaos and calm, destruction and renewal. The exhibition refuses to provide simple answers; instead, it invites us to endure the paradox of human existence and to see a possibility for the future in uncertainty. Because even in autumn, in the midst of decay and twilight, light remains conceivable.
September 18, 2025 to February 15, 2026
www.museum-joanneum.at/kunsthaus-graz
