IN THE WHEEL OF EMOTIONS
Awareness, Care and Forms of Quiet Resilience in Times of Crisis
Invitation to the exhibition
Exhibition opening: Friday, January 30th 2026, 18:00 - 24:00
Opening ceremony: 20:00
Location: < rotor >, Volksgartenstraße 6a, Graz
Participating artists:
Róza El-Hassan • ex-artists’ collective (Tamás Kaszás & Anikó Loránt) • Oleksandr Halishchuk • The Hologram • Jana Kapelová • Eva Koťátková • Mouries Collective • Katarína Poliačiková
Curated by: Judit Angel, Eliška Mazalanová, Margarethe Makovec, Anton Lederer
The exhibition focuses on emotions amid the tension between multiple contemporary crises and an increasingly polarised political climate. It responds to a situation in which systemic extraction, political manipulation, and enforced self-repression collide with the basic need for fulfilment, happiness, and hope.
The artworks on display reflect on the formation of emotional maturity through upbringing, education and social norms. They explore ways how anxiety can be addressed, empathy fostered, loss overcome and hostile forces resisted. Moreover, they articulate the urgency of collective healing, mutual care, and sustaining hope in uncertain times—while recognising quiet resilience, small everyday gestures that
surface in the cracks of the system.
Opening weekend:
Friday, 30.01.2026
Opening hours: 18:00 - 24:00
Opening ceremony: 20:00
Program:
Ministry of Small Pleasures by Katarína Poliačiková
Space for Action by Mouries Collective
Performance by Oleksandr Halishchuk
Saturday, 31.01.2026
Opening hours: 12:00 - 16:00
13:30 Exhibition tour with curators and artists
16:30 Session with Mouries Collective (Registration required rotor@mur.at)
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Duration: 30.1. – 26.04.2026
Opening hours: MO–FR 10:00–18:00, SA 12:00–16:00
WEDNESDAY TILL 22:00
Closed on Sundays and public holidays
Dialogic tours through the exhibition for school classes and other groups by prior
appointment: rotor@mur.at, 0316/ 688306
Admission free!
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In cooperation with tranzit sk, Bratislava.
ERSTE Foundation is the main partner of tranzit.
Many thanks to the Czech Center Vienna for logistic support.
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< rotor >
Centre for Contemporary Art
Volksgartenstrasse 6a, 8020 Graz, Austria
Tel: +43 / 316 / 688306, E-Mail: rotor@mur.at
www.rotor.mur.at
