“We humans are pinning our hopes on the fact that a certain number of flowers, shrubs and trees can protect a multi-ton highway from the collapse of an even heavier mountain. (…) The plants draw their strength from the soil soaked in our blood and sweat,” writes Anton Tkachenko about the work he created in just a few weeks for the foyer of the Kunsthaus.

Scraps of cheap materials, soft, foldable, and thus fundamentally mobile, become interwoven, growing pictorial narratives in an echo of the avant-garde and the revolutionary gesture of montage. Ukrainian artist Anton Tkachenko – in Graz since 2023 – creates landscapes for the foyer in which mountains, bridges, rows of houses, but also plants, figures, and blooming flowers are intertwined: Hope, vision, or just more shadows of Sisyphean attempts at resistance?

With a musical intervention by Anna Illiushyna.

Kuratiert von Katrin Bucher-Trantow.