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Privatised decades ago for a \u2018symbolic shilling\u2019, the \u2018Traudl Adit\u2019 and the associated mining rights now belong to an American-Australian mining group. \u2018Critical Metals\u2019 plans to mine the light metal in Carinthia, then process it in Saudi Arabia and sell it to BMW as \u2018European Lithium\u2019. 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 \u2018on our doorstep\u2019 as an opportunity to reflect on the relationship between property and mountains in times of planetary and neocolonial extraction regimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Possessed Mountains<\/strong><br>17.09.2025 \u2013 11.10.2025<br>FORUM STADTPARK<br>Stadtpark 1<br>8010 Graz<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forumstadtpark.at\">www.forumstadtpark.at<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17.09.2025 \u2013 11.10.2025 It&#8217;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 &#8211; and found worthless lithium. 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