SHOWING STYRIA 2025 - 400 Years of Eggenberg Palace

"Ambition & Illusion": 04/26 - 11/02/2025

In 2025, Eggenberg Palace in Graz will be transformed into the centrepiece for the third SHOWING STYRIA "Ambition & Illusion". The show will be completed by a total of three pavilions, which will bring together artistic positions under the title "History Repeating?" and enable a new reception of the past. pavilion will also complete the show this time.

Eggenberg Palace, located on the western outskirts of Graz in Styria, must be seen as a gigantic calendar: 365 windows, 31 rooms on each floor, 24 state rooms with 52 doors and, in all, 60 windows, 4 corner towers - all allusions to time, to the seasons, to weeks, days, hours, minutes. This number symbolism based on the then new Gregorian calendar is the architectural programme of the palace.

Duration: 26.04. - 02.11.2025
Opening SHOWING STYRIA: 26.04.2025, Eggenberg Palace
Opening Pavilion: 12.03.2025 in Vienna, Heldenplatz

Pavillons:

12.03. - 30.03.2025: Wien, Heldenplatz
26.04. - 02.11.2025: Eggenberg Palace
Pavillon in Mariazell: May - July 2025
Pavillon in Leoben: August - November 2025

SHOWING STYRIA 2025 "Ambition & Illusion"

400 Years of Eggenberg Palace

2025 marks the 400th anniversary of the decision made by the first Prince of Eggenberg to expand the old family seat into a representative residence. That is reason enough to devote an exhibition to Eggenberg Palace, which is extraordinary in every respect. The new show is designed to throw a new and undisguised look at the palace and all its inhabitants. The UNESCO World Heritage Site will form the core of SHOWING STYRIA 2025, transporting visitors to a seemingly far-off world by means of an innovative, multimedia exhibition.

Download brochure: SHOWING STYRIA 2025

Studio Louter

Eggenberg Palace and the State Rooms

04/26 - 11/02/2025

The UNESCO World Heritage Site will be the centrepiece of SHOWING STYRIA 2025. For this exhibition, the State Rooms and Planetary Room slip back into their original role, turning into stages. Stages for the grand presentation of a princely family that managed to turn its failure into an eternal success story with the help of an artwork, a grand illusion that has been maintained for centuries.

Grafik Universalmuseum Joanneum - Iljafilm

Eggenberg Palace - Archaeology Museum

Special exhibition as part of SHOWING STYRIA I 04/26 - 11/02/2025, April – October 2026

The special exhibition at the Archaeology Museum with the working title ‘Graz 1699’ is designed to transport visitors back to the vibrant atmosphere of 17th century Graz as an immersive experience. At the centre of the show is a digital reconstruction of Baroque Graz based on historical copperplate engravings. The exhibition is rounded off by selected archaeological finds from Graz city centre. The show is intended to promote appreciation of the Styrian capital’s cultural heritage while also complementing the main part of the SHOWING STYRIA 2025 in the Eggenberg Palace State Rooms. The exhibition will also be on show in the Archaeology Museum in 2026.

UMJ

THE EGGENBERGER COINS

Special exhibition as part of SHOWING STYRIA I 04/26 - 11/02/2025

The exhibition shows rare and precious coins and medals of the Eggenberg princes, yet also offers insight into the history of money and the economy in the 17th century. In this way, it sheds light on the backdrop in terms of financial history against which the rise and fall of the Eggenberger dynasty played out.

Rendering studio WG3

Pavillons

The Pavillons are central elements of SHOWING STYRIA

For SHOWING STYRIA 2025, the Pavillon will consist of three parts. These will be set up together at the opening in Vienna, then shown at different locations.
One element will be in the Schloss Eggenberg Park, one element in the Styrian regions (Mariazell and Leoben) in collaboration with regional partners, and one element abroad.