Image: Installation view, 'Markus Huemer: Ein Fußballfeld muss baumfrei sein', Neue Galerie Graz. Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J. J. Kucek © Bildrecht, Vienna 2026
The Neue Galerie Graz will close out Markus Huemer’s exhibition ‘Ein Fußballfeld muss baumfrei sein’ with a finissage on Saturday, 29 August 2026, at 11:00. The museum’s own calendar entry for the event states that Huemer will lead the final guided tour himself that morning and that admission is free. The exhibition itself stays open for one more day, closing on 30 August 2026.
The finissage is presented as a recommendation within the Neue Galerie Graz’s summer programme, which the museum says continues to offer guided tours and participatory activities in its Open Studio through the end of August. The announcement places the event alongside that broader schedule but identifies Huemer’s closing tour as the specific end-of-run highlight.
Neue Galerie Graz is part of the Universalmuseum Joanneum, whose site describes the museum as devoted to art from the 19th century to the present. The museum’s current exhibitions listing includes ‘Ein Fußballfeld muss baumfrei sein’ as a Markus Huemer exhibition running from 14 May to 30 August 2026 in Graz, curated by Peter Peer. The exhibition brings together around 80 paintings made over the past 25 years, grouped as depictions of nature — landscapes, plant still lifes and flower pictures — all built from digital images circulating online rather than from motifs the artist saw himself; some, such as the flower pictures, were 3D-scanned and digitally reworked. The finissage is therefore set for the final weekend of the show’s stated run.
The museum’s programme page also notes that Huemer’s exhibition appears within a wider 2026 exhibition calendar at Neue Galerie Graz, which includes ‘Selection. Highlights aus der Sammlung’, ‘Analytische Schönheit’, ‘Günter Brus. Das Bleiben im Rahmen des Unmöglichen’ and ‘Roland Reiter. No matter what it is, but it matters what it could be’. In that context, the finissage functions as the closing marker for one specific exhibition rather than a general museum event.
The newsletter text does not give further details about the works on view, and it does not add interpretive commentary beyond the artist’s presence as guide. It states only that Huemer will conduct the final tour on the morning of 29 August, giving visitors one more opportunity to see the exhibition with the artist present.
The event listing gives the venue as Neue Galerie Graz in Graz, Austria, and gives the start time as 11:00 with free admission. The museum’s contact details on the same page identify its location in the Joanneumsviertel, where Neue Galerie Graz and the BRUSEUM are housed as part of the Universalmuseum Joanneum.
