← Ernst Koslitsch

Echo Keepers 1 + 2

In the group exhibition A Parable for Endings and Beginnings We Don't Know Yet, Part 1: The Giant Bird

rotor, Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Volksgartenstraße 6a, Graz
29 May, 1 August and 24 August, 5 September 2026
Curated by Margarethe Makovec and Anton Lederer
Echo Keepers 1 + 2, yellow formwork panel sculptures at the entrance of rotor, Graz Detail view, Echo Keepers, sculpture with red painted markings
Echo Keepers 1 + 2, formwork panels, screws, paint, 2026. Photo: PENDING CREDIT
Entrance view, rotor Graz, with both Echo Keepers sculptures flanking the door
Entrance view, rotor Graz. Photo: rotor Graz

For the entrance to rotor, Ernst Koslitsch created two sculptures, each over three metres tall, standing before the ivy covered columns that are more than 150 years old. Built from formwork panels used on construction sites, both new and previously used, the works retain the marks of prior use as a deliberate part of their surface. Drawing on early cave paintings, particularly from Asia, the two figures read as fragments of an unknown reference system, echo keepers, bearers, totems, or technical relics, standing at the point where a mark becomes a ritualised story.

Group exhibition with Aliz Farkas, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Vanja Krajnc, Edda Strobl, Daily Rhythms Collective (Daniela Brasil, Otto Oscar Hernandez Ruiz, SHIN Hyo Jin), Lala Rascic, Catrin Manoli, Catherina Jarau, Anna Mora Moll, Laila Reichenpfader, Dominika Trapp, and Ernst Koslitsch.

Venue: rotor.mur.at →
Exhibition review: KUMA.at, Robert Goessl →