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

On Saturday, 8 March 2025, at 11:00, we open at Auditorium Minoriti the international group exhibition Tired Palm Trees, a transnational project project that changes at each exhibition venue. Curated by Markus Waitschacher and Jure Kirbiš and on view until 10 April 2025, the exhibition takes place in three venues: UGM Kabinet, The Judgment Tower and The Crypt in Minoriti.

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.

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