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“In Search of a New Balance” Six Contemporary Art Perspectives in the Austrian Pavilion at EXPO 2025, Osaka Peaceful orders, international alliances, societies, and the relationships between people and nature — and between people themselves — are often held together by delicate balance. In today’s world, many of these systems are out of sync: people are displaced, the environment is suffering, and equilibrium is lost. The six artworks presented here, created with connections to Austria (and one to Liechtenstein), also reflect links to many parts of the world. Each piece explores disruption — and what follows in its wake. Human actions are often at the root of the imbalance, yet all the works express a shared longing: a desire to restore dignity, connection, and harmony. Each month, one of these works takes center stage. It will be shown at the following fixed times in the 3D HOLOBOX at the Austrian Pavilion at EXPO 2025: 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 14:00, 16:00, 17:00, 18:00, 20:00, 21:00, 21:30 concept and curation: Simon Mraz Acollaboration of Austria @Expo 2025 Osaka and the Austrian Ministry for European and International Affairs BMEIA JUNE/JULY 2025: “SHAKEN GROUNDS, SHIFTING SKIES” A film by Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Victor Jaschke, Peter Kozek, Werner Moebius and Lucie Strecker (2025) For thousands of years, sacred sites have been built in places where people sensed a connection to the inner forces of the Earth. Volcanoes, tectonic rifts, and deep caves speak of a geological time that stretches far beyond the span of human life. Rituals performed in these places often shaped a different sense of time — one that fostered greater responsibility for the future. Today, however, these seismically active zones are shaped by new cultural expressions. Once linked to a multi-layered, sacredview ofthe world, they now point to human-made pressures that stress the Earth’s crust — suchas global warming, melting glaciers, resource extraction, energy technologies, and waste disposal. Whether and how these forces contribute to earthquakes and eruptions is still debated — but they reveal the unsettling complexity of our ecological crisis. The artist collective Shaken Groundstraveled to the seismic edges of southern Italy and to a melting glacier in the Austrian Alps to explore the overlap between natural seismic activity and human-driven environmental destruction. Their research unfolds through a network of artistic experiments. This work was developed as part of the project imagine climate dignity, a collaboration between the Austrian Ministry for European and International Affairs and Künstlerhaus Vienna. Shaken Grounds is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and supported by the Italian Cultural Institute Vienna, Land Tirol Kultur, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and its Applied Performance Laboratory (APL).