exhibition venues:

• UGM Kabinet (Maribor Art Gallery), Strossmayerjeva ulica 6, Maribor
• The Judgement Tower, (Minoriti), Pristan 8, Maribor
• The Crypt (Minoriti), Pristan 8, Maribor

opening hours: Tue–Sun, 10:00–18:00

artists: Darko Aleksovski, Marko Brecelj, Mateja Bučar, Víctor Cruz & Hugo Portillo, Vadim Fiškin, Metka Krašovec, Edith Payer, Tadej Pogačar, Christina Helena Romirer, Katrin Ströbel, Roswitha Weingrill

This exhibition is not an exhibition about palm trees. It borrows the palm tree as a symbolic image. A symbol with manifold meanings. Plants at large, not just palm trees, have always held a highly symbolic and therefore political character. They must embellish, trivialise, cover up or greenwash. In the exhibition, they have become tired. Tired of the burden of all the projections they have had to absorb, of the actual torments they have been exposed to or of the unending misinterpretations and misuses of their habitat. Tired palm trees are symptomatic of the fatigue in a society that cannot find rest despite sleep.

Tired Palm Trees is a transnational exhibition project that changes at each exhibition venue and is anchored anew locally. Versions of it have already been organized at Pavelhaus – Pavlova hiša in Laafeld (2019), Le Cube - independent art room in Rabat (2022) and Art Sonje Center in Seoul (2024). In 2026 it will travel to Museo MARTE, San Salvador. With support and contributions by many artists and curator-colleagues David Kranzelbinder, Elisabeth Piskernik, Heehyun Cho and Jure Kirbiš.

This edition of Tired Palm Trees is produced by Maribor Art Gallery and is curated by Markus Waitschacher and Jure Kirbiš. Minoriti and Maribor Puppet Theatre are partners in the project.