Burnout not only settles in the individual body as a state of exhaustion, it also accumulates, circulates and disperses into a shared climate that stretches across technical systems, social relations and ecological processes. What happens at the margins of exhaustion, where systems falter or refuse to fully cohere? Could spaces emerge for tentative forms of connection, alternative rhythms and practices that do not reproduce the extractive logic of burnout?
Curated by: Davide Bevilacqua, Arianna Forte, Noemi Garay, Lara Mejač, Diane Pricop
Exhibiting artists: 868.labs, S( )fia Braga, MOC Mara Oscar Cassiani, Marco Donnarumma, Fantastic Little Splash, Christina Gruber, Dasha Ilina & Marie Verdeil, Sam Lavigne, Repair and Redress, Mario Santamaría, Ioana Vreme Moser
Exhibition dates: 13. – 16. May 2026 | (Opening hours: Thu–Sat, 10:00-19:00)
Galerie MAERZ, Eisenbahngasse 20, 4020 Linz
The exhibition "From the Ashes of the Burnout Machines" will be presented during the Festival AMRO26: Becoming Unreadable.
> Vernissage on Wednesday, 13. May 2026 at 18:00
> Festival opening & Keynotes at 19:00, afo – architekturforum oberösterreich
> Performance „Lestes“ by Marco Donnarumma on 13. May at 21:00
> Exhibition Guided Tour on Friday 15. May at 17:00
> More: https://radical-openness.org/en/programm/2026/ashes-burnout-machines
A cooperation between MAERZ, servus.at – Kunst und Kultur im Netz, and Art Meets Radical Openness Festival
AMRO26 programme: radical-openness.org/
Thanks to: Stadt Linz, Land OÖ, BMWKMS
*The project "From the Ashes of the Burnout Machines" was founded by Sonderförderprogramm EXTRA25 / Land OÖ
Image Credits: Christina Gruber / Typography: Hanna Priemetzhofer