SHELTER OF HOPE (ESPERANTO CLASSROOM)
with Dr. Heinz-Paul Kovacic, Styrian Esperanto Society
and Nikola Vuković & Lluís Martínez, music

Wednesday, 22 April 2026, 18:00 h
Location: < rotor >, Volksgartenstraße 6a, Graz

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In the final week of the current exhibition, we would like to draw your attention to two closing events.

On Wednesday, 22 April, an evening dedicated to the Esperanto language will take place within the installation Shelter of Hope (Esperanto Classroom) by ex-artists' collective (Tamás Kaszás & Anikó Loránt). Our guest will be Dr Heinz-Paul Kovacic from the Esperanto Society of Styria. He will share some information about the Esperanto language with us and may even teach us a word or two.

The evening will be accompanied by a musical performance by the duo Nikola Vuković and Lluís Martínez, who will bring their own chair into the already rather unusual classroom and then draw on the Esperanto anthem. The audience will witness how two friends create a secret language with the help of sounds and imagination. In doing so, they explore alternative forms of play and understanding, creating sonic spaces of connection and perhaps also of failure.

The installation takes the form of an improvised classroom, alluding to the meaning of the name of the language Esperanto – ‘one who hopes’. The blackboards and desks feature an Esperanto lesson, with example sentences addressing globalisation, the ecological crisis, anarchist and green politics, and the nature of utopia.

The event will be held in German.

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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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