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Collective beauty expresses itself in every nook and corner. Productions from the collective unconscious appear in manifold rituals of order and marking. Phrasings – embedded in functional, trivial context – and proceedings of layering, accumulation and condensation turn out to be pure poetry.

Personal recordings of what is important, of everything that must not be forgotten, on that day or over a longer period of time. As a mnemonic, a storage or an evidence to be able to give proof or to assure oneself. While the occurrance is ending, the memory fading, the narration being dismissed as fictional, everything committed to paper in the notebook serves as verification. The perceived moment in fragments outlined, to not leave it to oblivion. The notebook as the situatedness of particular moments in changing hierarchical priorities as a list of references of today’s being.

Our society is a plural gathering where many interests clash. Our co-operation in a democracy is subject to constant re-negotiation: This is about everybody, since every single one of us is a being of many possibilities.
We believe that art, culture and the institutions promoting the same are open spaces-spaces that allow us to experience diversity and ambiguity.
There has been a time when art was defamed as degenerate in Austria. Art and culture were put to ill uses of inhumane propaganda. People were debased, robbed of their means of existence, persecuted, exiled, murdered. As creators of art and culture in Austria we are well aware of the responsibility that arises from history. In the Republic of Austria, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms enjoys constitutional status. Whoever attempts to abrogate the European Human Rights Convention and the rule of law is compromising the cornerstones of our democratic commonwealth.

The current situation in Nicaragua and the modus operandi the autocratic acting president Daniel Ortega and his clans display in dealing with the opposition, with students, journalists and activists calls for first-hand information for one thing and, for another, for the necessity to "pin" this information in the form of an "information sculpture", keep it evident and further feed it.

Ausstellung im Pavelhaus/Pavlova Hiša: Persönlichen Erinnerungen und dem Erzählten Raum geben, um verschüttete gemeinsame Vergangenheit sichtbar zu machen. Postkarten, Briefe und Fotografien aus der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jh. aus dem Kärntner Loibltal erzählen Geschichte aus persönlicher Perspektive.

What is the art what are the humans? The exhibition shows a fragmentary retrospective and present works. Mirko Maric strolls through different worlds: real and virtual, analogue and digital, as well as banal. His works arise from the contact points and intersections of personhood and the world of art—nature, life, death. A disturbing „intoxication with questions“, „silent talks“ made visible in the public as well as the intimate space. Consequently, everything ends in an invisible fluxus edition. Subject to changes.