IN THE WHEEL OF EMOTIONS
Immersing the Exhibition

Saturday, 21 March 2026
14:00 h Exhibition tour
15:00 h Workshop »Masks and Emotions«
Location: < rotor >, Volksgartenstraße 6a, Graz

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As part of our current exhibition, we cordially invite you to a tour through the exhibition on Saturday, 21 March, followed by a mask-making workshop.

At 14:00 h, Anton Lederer will lead a curatorial tour through the exhibition. He will introduce the theme of the exhibition and discuss individual artistic positions. The tour will be conducted in German.

From 15:00 to 18:00 h, the workshop »Masks and Emotions« will take place. Masks will be used as a means of self-reflection and the embodiment of previously unknown, suppressed or invisible aspects of one's own inner world. By working playfully and intuitively with materials such as cardboard, textiles and magazines, peculiar beings will be created that enable us to approach our own emotional world, either as a second face or as a counterpart.

The workshop will be conducted by Laura Urdl, art educator at < rotor >. Sufficient materials will be provided, but participants are invited to bring their own materials, found objects and treasures. The results will be presented at the end of the workshop and discussed in the group, but can of course be taken home afterwards.

Participation in the workshop is free of charge. Registration is not mandatory, but requested.

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In the frame of the exhibition
IN THE WHEEL OF EMOTIONS –
Awareness, Care and Forms
of Quiet Resilience in
Times of Crises

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

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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.

Duration of the exhibition:
Until 26 April 2026

Opening hours:
MON–FRI 10:00–18:00, SAT 12:00–16:00
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 main partner of tranzit.

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