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  • Date

    21. October 2026

    Wed 18:00

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Opening Hellenalgia Vol. 1: Exhausted

Opening 21 October 2026

HellenalgiajoinsHellastoalgos, the Greek word for pain that also ends nostalgia. Nostalgia aches for a home that was lost. Hellenalgia names the longing for one that was never inhabited: the classical antiquity that Europe assembled after the fact, out of Roman copies of lost Greek originals and ruins that later empires chose to leave standing. The ruin is intact enough to project onto and damaged enough to invite repair, so it works less as a remnant than as an interface. That longing is not neutral. Today it supplies much of the visual grammar for anyone promising to “make something great again.”

Vol. 1: Exhaustedmeets the classical repertoire at the point of depletion. Its supporting structures no longer support, and its forms keep circulating long after they stopped doing the work they were built for. Columns soften and melt. Other antiquities compete with the Greek one. Bodies decline the heroic pose and take up opacity, codeswitching and falling instead. Modern utopias appear as unfinished structures that are still lived in. The exhibition neither disqualifies the past nor restores it. It handles the past as material: contested, unfinished, still load-bearing.

Artists: Madison Bycroft, Pietro Cappelli, Zuzanna Czebatul, Honoré Daumier, Klaus Lutz, Kazuko Miyamoto, Anna Moreno, Basyma Saad, Erwin Thorn, Albert Welti

& Alexandra Bachzetsis, Julius Pristauz

supported by Abdul Sharif Oluwafemi Baruwa, Liam Gillick, Oz Oderbolz, Toni Schmale

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Eröffnung am 21. Oktober 2026

HellenalgiaverbindetHellasmitalgos, dem griechischen Wort für Schmerz, das auch in Nostalgie steckt. Nostalgie ist die schmerzliche Sehnsucht nach einem verlorenen Zuhause.Hellenalgia bezeichnet die Sehnsucht nach einem, das nie bewohnt wurde: jener klassischen Antike, die Europa im Nachhinein aus römischen Kopien verlorener griechischer Originale und Ruinen zusammengesetzt hat, die spätere Imperien stehen liessen. Die Ruine ist intakt genug, um als Projektionsfläche zu dienen, und beschädigt genug, um zur Reparatur einzuladen. So funktioniert sie weniger als Überrest denn als Schnittstelle. Diese Sehnsucht ist nicht neutral. Heute liefert sie einen grossen Teil der visuellen Grammatik für all jene, die versprechen, etwas “wieder gross machen zu wollen”.

Vol. 1: Exhaustedbegegnet dem klassischen Repertoire im Zustand der Erschöpfung. Seine tragenden Strukturen tragen nicht mehr, und seine Formen zirkulieren weiter, lange nachdem sie aufgehört haben, jene Aufgaben zu erfüllen, für die sie eigentlich geschaffen wurden. Säulen werden weich und schmelzen. Andere Antiken konkurrieren mit der Griechischen. Körper verweigern die heroische Pose und wenden sich stattdessen der Opazität, dem Codeswitching und dem Fallen zu. Moderne Utopien erscheinen als unvollendete Strukturen, die noch immer bewohnt werden. Die Ausstellung verwirft die Vergangenheit ebenso wenig, wie sie sie wiederherstellt. Sie behandelt sie als Material: umstritten, unvollendet, noch immer tragend.

Künstler:innen: Madison Bycroft, Pietro Cappelli, Zuzanna Czebatul, Honoré Daumier, Klaus Lutz, Kazuko Miyamoto, Anna Moreno, Basyma Saad, Erwin Thorn, Albert Welti

& Alexandra Bachzetsis, Julius Pristauz

Unterstützt von Abdul Sharif Oluwafemi Baruwa, Liam Gillick, Oz Oderbolz, Toni Schmale

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Shedhalle
Seestrasse 395
8038 Zürich
Switzerland
Event Homepage https://rotefabrik.ch/#/events/34532
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