OH, CHILD, THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
Performance by Oleksandr Halishchuk

Wednesday, 4 March 2026, 20:00 h
Location: < rotor >, Volksgartenstraße 6a, Graz

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Under the title “Oh, Child, the Neighbourhood,” Graz-based artist Oleksandr Halishchuk performs around his installation “Pastime,” which is part of the current exhibition. The performance is an improvised tour around the neighbourhood and memory lane with a little trip to the sea. Collected childhood and adolescence stories are being openly told in their whole sincerity with humour. Family, friends, neighbours, arson and a lot more from the non-binary next door.

The multi-part installation “Pastime” deals with the fact that Oleksandr Halishchuk won’t be able to return to the places of his childhood and youth in the foreseeable future due to the Russian occupation. The artist, who comes from Melitopol in Ukraine, set up his former neighbourhood on three tables, in a way he liked to do as a child. Thus, he arranges micro-stories that took place around his former home and along the neighbourhood’s central Garden Street [Vulytsya Sadova]. A second layer on the wall consists of four photos from the family album from the artist’s time in Melitopol, above this, on the third level, is a projection with video material from the time since he came to Austria.

During the performance, the artist will speak in English.

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In the frame of the exhibition
IN THE WHEEL OF EMOTIONS

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:
30.1.–26.04.2026

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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