KLAUS KADA "NUANCES AND ATMOSPHERES - AN ŒUVRE, IN FRAGMENTS…"

Exhibition

KLAUS KADA

"NUANCES AND ATMOSPHERES - AN ŒUVRE, IN FRAGMENTS…"

Opening: 01.10.2026, 7:30 p.m.

Foreword: Former Governor of Styria HERMANN SCHÜTZENHÖFER

Exhibition: 4.10.2026–22.1.2027

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Dr. THOMAS MACHO, cultural scholar: Lecture on the work of KLAUS KADAS: 1.12.2026, 6 p.m.

SIGRID PRINZ, exhibition curation

KLAUS KADA "NUANCES AND ATMOSPHERES - AN ŒUVRE, IN FRAGMENTS…"

This exhibition is not a mere presentation of [building] works in the sense of a classic retrospective. It aims to open up an [un]usual view of the architecture of Klaus Kada: beyond the visible surface, into the depths of his architectural and artistic thinking. Architecture is presented not as a finished and complete object, but as something provisional, fragile and processual – in facets, nuances and atmospheres that show how his works oscillate between the concrete and the poetic. It appears as thought, as perception, as an experiment with material, light, transparency, colour and form.

The free as well as applied artistic [secondary] productions unfold between art and architecture – they become a resonance space: What would happen if the [architectural] form broke into fragments, hints remained, and the idea itself became the material? This exhibition opens up such intermediate and thought spaces.

At the centre is not the completed [building] work in its entirety, but the fragmentation of the intellectual, artistic, architectural and sensual process. What becomes visible is the becoming – as a snapshot or fragment of emergence – not what has become, with its claim to wholeness. Klaus Kada's approach of thought connects different spheres and makes it experiential how architecture could be conceived, developed and experienced/understood as an artistic medium.

[Spatial] installations, [picture] works, models – static as well as moving sequences made of individual [snapshot] recordings, and materialised slides create a space of the imaginary, in which matter and imagination, shadow and reflection, structure and openness, solidity and fragility come together both in their singularity and in a delicate dialogue. The exhibition content becomes a resonance space for perception and thought: perceptible and experienceable not as a finished [building] work, but as an expression of his intellectual attitude, his approach of thought and the [creative] process, whose reflection takes place in the respective artistic-architectural context – presented and exhibited for the first time in fragments, nuances and atmospheres.

Klaus Kada says: "Roughly... already close."

PUBLICATION: On the occasion of the exhibition KLAUS KADA "NUANCES AND ATMOSPHERES - AN OEUVRE, IN FRAGMENTS..." a publication has been released, which can be purchased at the Museum der Wahrnehmung MUWA during the exhibition

(€ 20,-).

Images of the opening

A TV report on Steiermark Heute of 1.10.2026 on the exhibition of KLAUS KADA by ORF Steiermark culture editor Beate Wittmann (camera Ursula Merzeder, editing Ahmed Lanner-Abdalla) is available until 30 October 2026 at https://on.orf.at/video/14341738/steiermark-heute-vom-01102026 (minute 8:46).

KLAUS KADA Festspielhaus St.Pölten Foyer

Photo credit Angelo Kaunat

KLAUS KADA, born 20 December 1940 in Wagna, Styria. 1961 to 1971 architecture studies at the Graz University of Technology, diploma 1971. Since 1976 self-employed as an architect, initially in Leibnitz, from 1976 to 1985 in office partnership with Gernot Lauffer. From 1988 to 2019 office in Graz, since 1996 additionally in Aachen. 1999 founding of kadawittfeldarchitektur together with Gerd Wittfeld, since 2012 with Kilian Kada as a further partner. 1995 to 2006 university professor of architectural design and building studies at the Faculty of Architecture of RWTH Aachen. More than 120 realised projects in the fields of housing, education, culture, health,…