> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Looking Up Is Also a Way of Questioning the Ground - Rotor Graz - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/rotor-graz-contemporary-the-giant-bird/ - Published: 2026-07-14T03:50:29.000Z - Updated: 2026-07-14T03:50:29.000Z - Description: Rotor Graz presents A Parable for Endings and Beginnings We Don't Know Yet, Part 1: The Giant Bird, with artists exploring mythological creatures, from 29 May to 1 August and 24 August to 5 September 2026. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Exhibition, Myth & Folklore, Nature & Ecology, Graz ## Rotor Graz presents A Parable for Endings and Beginnings We Don't Know Yet, Part 1: The Giant Bird [**Rotor Graz**](https://rotor.mur.at/?ref=catapult-platform.art) presents *A Parable for Endings and Beginnings We Don't Know Yet, Part 1: The Giant Bird*, curated by **Margarethe Makovec and Anton Lederer**, from 29 May to 1 August and from 24 August to 5 September 2026. --- **A Parable for Endings and Beginnings We Don't Know Yet - Part 1: The Giant Bird** **Artists:** Aliz Farkas, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Vanja Krajnc, Edda Strobl, Daily Rhythms Collective, Lala Raščić, Catrin Manoli, Catherina Jarau, Anna Mora Moll, Laila Reichenpfader, Dominika Trapp, Ernst Koslitsch **Exhibition:** A Parable for Endings and Beginnings We Don't Know Yet, Part 1: The Giant Bird **Venue:** [ rotor Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst ](https://www.rotor.mur.at/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **City:** Graz, Austria **Dates:** 29 May 2026 – 5 September 2026 (closed 2 August – 23 August 2026) **Address:** Volksgartenstraße 6a, 8020 Graz, Austria **Curator:** Margarethe Makovec & Anton Lederer **Image Courtesy:** Courtesy rotor, Graz **Photography:** Thomas Raggam **Contact:** [rotor@mur.at](mailto:rotor@mur.at) --- > **This is the first exhibition in a series focusing on mythological creatures appearing across different eras and cultures. They accompany transformation, challenge the familiar and invite us to embrace uncertainty and change.** --- The series at [**Rotor Graz** ](https://rotor.mur.at/frameset%5Frotor-info-ger.html?ref=catapult-platform.art)is inspired by a lecture by the philosopher and founder of The **Emergence Network**, [**Báyò Akómoláfé**](https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/?ref=catapult-platform.art). The first part takes its starting point from the Giant Bird. In Akómoláfé's work, this is Ziz, who is associated with air and the atmosphere but also establishes a connection to the earth. This encourages us to look upwards, whilst at the same time critically questioning the cycles we live in and what sustains us. ![AYOCOTL Seed Library, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, cafe room with Florian Perl mural and plants](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/ayocotl-seed-library-rotor-graz-2026-30.webp) ****AYOCOTL** Seed Library for All, 2026, with mural Xochitl by Florian Perl. Installation view, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Photo: Thomas Raggam. As part of the exhibition, the **AYOCOTL Seed Library** for All will also begin operations. And just outside, on Orpheumgasse, a parklet, a small green island, invites visitors to pause. ## **Part 1: The Giant Bird Participating Artists** ### **Entrance** [**Ernst Koslitsch**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/ernst-koslitsch-with-his-yellow-universe-and-the-ideas-around-systems-of-beliefs/) ( *Echo Keepers 1 + 2*, formwork panels, screws, paint, 2026) Two figures over three metres tall at the entrance, built from construction-site formwork panels whose signs of wear are kept rather than sanded away. Koslitsch is interested in the moment a mark turns into a ritualised narrative, a myth. ![Ernst Koslitsch, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, two carved wood figures flanking the gallery entrance](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/ernst-koslitsch-giant-bird-rotor-graz-2026-hero.webp) ****Ernst Koslitsch**, Echo Keepers 1 + 2, 2026\. Installation view, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Courtesy rotor, Graz.Photo: Thomas Raggam. ### **Entrance room** [**Aliz Farkas**](https://www.farkasaliz.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) (The World Keeps Spinning / Collection of World Models, sheep's fleece, wool, fur, feathers, wax, 2025-26) A freshly shorn sheep's fleece shaped into a world map, referencing the colonisation of landscape through the wool industry. Nearby, a planetary system of larger and smaller bodies covered in second-hand furs and feathers. ![Aliz Farkas, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, sheep's wool installation on white gallery walls](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/aliz-farkas-world-keeps-spinning-rotor-graz-2026-02.webp) ****Aliz Farkas**, The World Keeps Spinning, 2026\. Installation view, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Photo: Thomas Raggam. ![Aliz Farkas, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, detail of hand spindles hanging from wool installation](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/aliz-farkas-world-keeps-spinning-rotor-graz-2026-04.webp) Aliz Farkas, The World Keeps Spinning, 2026 (detail). A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Photo: Thomas Raggam. [**Elisabeth von Samsonow**](https://www.instagram.com/elisabeth%5Fvon%5Fsamsonow/?ref=catapult-platform.art) (Buchberg Epic for Diana and Titania, mural, watercolours, paintings, objects, 2026) A multi-dimensional diary of the Buchberg, a site in Lower Austria facing a proposed wind farm inside the breeding grounds of imperial and white-tailed eagles. Von Samsonow performs as an eagle on opening day. ![Elisabeth von Samsonow, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, mountain mural with eagle sculpture and paintings](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/elisabeth-von-samsonow-giant-bird-rotor-graz-2026-installation-01.webp) ****Elisabeth von Samsonow,** Buchberg Epic for Diana (the Imperial Eagle) and Titania (White-Tailed Sea Eagle), 2026\. Installation view, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Courtesy rotor, Graz - Photo - Thomas Raggam ![Elisabeth von Samsonow, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, carved wooden eagle figure with drawings catapult contemporary](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/elisabeth-von-samsonow-buchberg-epic-rotor-graz-2026-06.webp) ****Elisabeth von Samsonow,** Buchberg Epic for Diana (the Imperial Eagle) and Titania (White-Tailed Sea Eagle), 2026 (detail). A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Photo: Thomas Raggam. ### **Room 2** [**Vanja Krajnc**](https://vanjakrajnc.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art), In the Deep Woods, glass, painting, ceramics, paper, papier-mâché, 2020-26 ![Vanja Krajnc, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, paintings and glass objects in blue gallery room](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/vanja-krajnc-deep-woods-rotor-graz-2026-09.webp) Vanja Krajnc, In the Deep Woods, 2020-26\. Installation view, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Photo: Thomas Raggam. ![Vanja Krajnc, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, glass objects and painting on purple gallery wall](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/vanja-krajnc-giant-bird-rotor-graz-2026-work-03.webp) Vanja Krajnc, Untitled, 2022/2026, with works from In the Deep Woods. Installation view, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Courtesy rotor, Graz. Photo: Thomas Raggam. A deep, imagined forest of wondrous plants, animals and organic forms, read through an animistic view in which mountains, rivers and weather also carry a spirit. [**Edda Strobl**](http://eddastrobl.mur.at/?ref=catapult-platform.art), Seltene Sorten \[Rare Varieties\], scraperboard drawings, 2025/26 Universes scraped out of black scraperboard, from interior views of bodies to cosmic constellations, worlds set before or after human dominance. ![Edda Strobl, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, small scraperboard drawings on blue gallery walls](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/edda-strobl-seltene-sorten-rotor-graz-2026-12.webp) Edda Strobl, Seltene Sorten \[Rare Varieties\], 2025/26\. Installation view, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Photo: Thomas Raggam. ![Edda Strobl, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, five black and white scraperboard drawings close up](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/edda-strobl-seltene-sorten-rotor-graz-2026-13.webp) Edda Strobl, Seltene Sorten \[Rare Varieties\], 2025/26 (detail). A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Photo: Thomas Raggam. ### **Room 3** [**Daily Rhythms Collective**](https://www.dailyrhythmscollective.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art)(Daniela Brasil, Otto Oscar Hernández Ruiz, SHIN Hyo Jin), Fugitive Soils / L'aMoUR, willow, cushions, sound, video, 2022-26 ![Daily Rhythms Collective, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, woven willow nest seen through yellow doors](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/daily-rhythms-collective-fugitive-soils-rotor-graz-2026-14.webp) Daily Rhythms Collective, Fugitive Soils, 2026\. Installation view, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Photo: Thomas Raggam. ![Daily Rhythms Collective, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, visitor reading inside the willow nest](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/daily-rhythms-collective-fugitive-soils-rotor-graz-2026-17.webp) Daily Rhythms Collective, Fugitive Soils, 2026 (detail). A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Photo: Thomas Raggam. A woven willow nest large enough to enter, built with many hands, paired with an altar of fugitive soils from each artist's childhood home and a video following the River Mur. ### **Room 4** [**Lala Raščić**](https://lalarascic.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art), Frau Ritter 2.0, multimedia installation, slide projectors, sound, 2024-25 An audiovisual narrative on women and snakes, built around botanist Hilda Ritter-Studnička and Sarajevo's former Zmijarnik serpent room, ending in an unpublished fable of a snake princess. ![Lala Raščić, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, projected snake goddess figures in dark gallery room](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/lala-rascic-frau-ritter-rotor-graz-2026-19.webp) Lala Raščić, Frau Ritter 2.0, 2024-25\. Installation view, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Photo: Thomas Raggam. ![Lala Raščić, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, projected images of specimen jars with snakes and eggs](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/lala-rascic-frau-ritter-rotor-graz-2026-20.webp) Lala Raščić, Frau Ritter 2.0, 2024-25 (detail). A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Photo: Thomas Raggam. [**Catrin Manoli**](https://catrinmanoli.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art), Egg, ostrich egg, ribbon, snails, pearls, light, tree stump, 2026 ![Catrin Manoli, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, illuminated egg hanging above a tree stump root](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/catrin-manoli-egg-rotor-graz-2026-21.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/catrin-manoli-egg-rotor-graz-2026-22.webp) Catrin Manoli, Egg, 2026\. Installation view, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Photo: Thomas Raggam. A decorated, illuminated ostrich egg referencing Coptic church tradition, set above a tree stump from a felled Linz park where activists fought, and lost, against a planned motorway. ### **Atrium** **Catherina Jarau,** [**Anna Mora Moll**](https://annamoll.de/?ref=catapult-platform.art)**, Laila Reichenpfader**, Release the Kraken, papier-mâché, wire, textiles, wool, 2026 ![Jarau, Reichenpfader, Mora Moll, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, hybrid bird head over courtyard](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/jarau-reichenpfader-moramoll-release-the-kraken-rotor-graz-2026-25.webp) Catherina Jarau, Laila Reichenpfader, Anna Mora Moll, Release the Kraken, 2026\. Installation view, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Photo: Thomas Raggam. ![Jarau, Reichenpfader, Mora Moll, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, wings of hybrid creature above courtyard](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/jarau-reichenpfader-moramoll-release-the-kraken-rotor-graz-2026-26.webp) Catherina Jarau, Laila Reichenpfader, Anna Mora Moll, Release the Kraken, 2026\. Installation view, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Photo: Thomas Raggam. A hybrid creature in the atrium with a vulture's head, moth wings and six booby legs, gynandromorphic and deliberately unfinished, set to transform further over the coming months. ### **Corridor** [**Dominika Trapp**](https://trappdominika.hu/?ref=catapult-platform.art), *Life Beyond…*, ink and watercolour, 2025 ![Dominika Trapp, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, ink and watercolour drawings in gallery corridor](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/dominika-trapp-life-beyond-rotor-graz-2026-27.webp) Dominika Trapp, Life Beyond…, 2025\. Installation view, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Photo: Thomas Raggam. ![Dominika Trapp, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, four ink and watercolour drawings on gallery wall](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/dominika-trapp-giant-bird-rotor-graz-2026-work-05.webp) Dominika Trapp, Life Beyond…, 2025\. Installation view, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Courtesy rotor, Graz. Photo: Thomas Raggam. Four drawings of a figure at a cave's threshold, turned toward the exit, a personal meditation on whether it is responsible to bring a child into this world. ### **Café** [**AYOCOTL Seed Library for All**](https://urbanes-gaertnern.at/?ref=catapult-platform.art) (Forum Urbanes Gärtnern, Andreas Motschiunig, Daniela Brasil, Florian Perl) ![AYOCOTL Seed Library, A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz, 2026, labelled soil sample jars on wooden shelves](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/ayocotl-seed-library-rotor-graz-2026-31.webp) AYOCOTL Seed Library for All, Erdbibliothek \[Earth Library\], 2026 (detail). A Parable for Endings and Beginnings, rotor, Graz. Photo: Thomas Raggam. A working seed library in rotor's café, storing and distributing plant seeds on the condition that more are returned than taken. **Florian Perl**, *Xochitl*, mural, 2026 A wall-filling mural built from the shapes of seeds Perl studied for the piece, its title drawn, like Ayocotl, from the Nahuatl word for flower. --- The exhibition closes after 1 August and reopens on 24 August, and at least one work is built around that gap. The hybrid creature hanging in the atrium, part vulture, part moth, part booby, is described by its makers as unfinished on purpose, and it is expected to look different when the doors open again. A few rooms away, the seed library runs on a comparable logic, it only continues if more is returned than taken out. Two structures in one building, both refusing to settle into a final state before the exhibition ends. --- [**Rotor Contemporary on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/rotor.contemporary/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **AYOCOTL Seed Library / cooperation** [**Forum Urbanes Gärtnern on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/zentralgartenbuero/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **Curators** [**Margarethe Makovec**](https://www.instagram.com/margarethemakovec/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **Anton Lederer** **Artists / participants** [**Aliz Farkas on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/aliz.%5F.farkas/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Catrin Manoli on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/cooky.a.k.a/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Daily Rhythms Collective on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/dailyrhythmscollective/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Daniela Brasil on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/danielabrasil%5Fart/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Edda Strobl on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/eddastrobl/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Elisabeth von Sasonow on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/elisabeth%5Fvon%5Fsamsonow/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Ernst Koslitsch on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/koslitsch/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Florian Perl on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/seasperl/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Lala Rascic on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/lalakojenama/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Otto Hernandez on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/o%5F%5Ft%5F%5Ft%5F%5Fo%5F%5Fhernandez/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Shin Hyojin on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/shin.hyojin.linkingcultures/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Trapp Dominika on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/%5Fomnika%5F/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Vanja Krajnc on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/vanja%5Fkrajnc/?ref=catapult-platform.art) Catherina Jarau Anna Mora Moll Laila Reichenpfader **Cooperation partner, optional** [**DRAMATIKER|INNENFESTIVAL Graz on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/dramatikerinnenfestival%5Fgraz/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **About Catapult Contemporary - Art Platform Submission** This is a exhibition review published by Catapult — an independent editorial platform for contemporary art, based in Vienna. 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