Burnout not only settles in the individual body as a state of exhaustion, it also accumulates, circulates and disperses into a shared climate that stretches across technical systems, social relations and ecological processes. What happens at the margins of exhaustion, where systems falter or refuse to fully cohere? Could spaces emerge for tentative forms of connection, alternative rhythms and practices that do not reproduce the extractive logic of burnout?
Curatorial team:
Davide Bevilacqua, Arianna Forte, Noemi Garay, Lara Mejač, Diane Pricop
Exhibiting artists
868.wearables
868.labs (Helena Nikonole, Katerina Kataeva, Tobéchukwu Onwukeme)
Platform Workshippers
Ai Love, Ghosts and Uncanny Valleys <3. I broke up with my Ai and will never download them again.
Lestes
Infocry
Vaping Vampire
Energy Academy
Slow Hot Computer
A Deer in the Wide Web
I C (GP)U
Repair and Redress (Christopher Csíkszentmihályi, Laura Cortes Rico, Marina Zafiris, Mikko Liivak, Steve Jackson)
Liquid Machines. Cartographic Computers
Opening times: 13. – 16. May 2026 | (Opening hours: Thu–Sat, 10:00-19:00)
Galerie MAERZ, Eisenbahngasse 20
> Vernissage on Wednesday, 13th of May 2026 at 18:00
> Festival opening & Keynotes at 19:00, afo – architekturforum oberösterreich
> Performance „Lestes“ by Marco Donnarumma on 13. May at 21:00
> Exhibition Guided Tour on Friday 15. May at 17:00
a cooperation between MAERZ, servus.at – Kunst und Kultur im Netz, and Art Meets Radical Openness Festival programme: radical-openness.org/
Dank an: Stadt Linz, Land OÖ, BMWKMS
Gefördert durch das Sonderförderprogramm EXTRA25 / Land OÖ
Image Credits: Christina Gruber / Typography: Hanna Priemetzhofer
