17.09.2025 – 11.10.2025
It’s a fact that only a few people are probably aware of: somewhere under the Weinebene, between Styria and Carinthia, is one of the largest lithium deposits in the EU. The deposit was discovered at the height of the nuclear age: they were drilling for uranium – and found worthless lithium. Privatised decades ago for a ‘symbolic shilling’, the ‘Traudl Adit’ and the associated mining rights now belong to an American-Australian mining group. ‘Critical Metals’ plans to mine the light metal in Carinthia, then process it in Saudi Arabia and sell it to BMW as ‘European Lithium’. A legally, ideally and materially hollowed-out mountain as a symbol of the relationship between people and landscape in late capitalism. The exhibition, curated by Rose-Anne Gush, Philipp Sattler, Johanna Pichlbauer and Robin Klengel, takes this example ‘on our doorstep’ as an opportunity to reflect on the relationship between property and mountains in times of planetary and neocolonial extraction regimes.
Possessed Mountains
17.09.2025 – 11.10.2025
FORUM STADTPARK
Stadtpark 1
8010 Graz
www.forumstadtpark.at
