Museo Marte

29.07 - 31.03.27

A new iteration of Palmeras Cansadas opened in July 2026 at Museo MARTE in San Salvador, marking an unprecedented collaboration between Le Cube and Museo MARTE.

Conceived by curators Markus Waitschacher and Elisabeth Piskernik, this transnational exhibition project was first presented in Austria, followed by Le Cube in 2022, Art Sonje Center in Seoul in 2024, and Galeria Maribor in 2025.

Envisioned as an evolving platform, the exhibition is reshaped at each venue through the involvement of local curators and artists. In San Salvador, it will be expanded through the contributions of Salvadoran artists, alongside curator and artist Antonio Romero.

At the heart of the project lies an international network of artists and institutions exploring the relationship between humans and nature through perspectives grounded in specific cultural contexts.

Palmeras Cansadas brings together contemporary artistic approaches centred on the palm tree, considered not merely as a motif but as a symbol charged with political, colonial, and ecological implications. Here, plants appear “weary” from the effects of climate change, the legacies of colonial extraction, and histories of scientific appropriation.

The works offer both critical and affective readings of our contemporary relationship to the living world, positioning plants as carriers of narratives shaped by migration, exhaustion, and various forms of social fatigue.

Participating artists: Mateja Bučar, Carlos Cañas, Victor Cruz y Hugo Portillo, Regula Dettwiler, Mauricio Esquivel, German Hernandez, Ronald Moran, Gabriela Novoa, Marie Ouazzani & Nicolas Carrier, Edith Payer, Antonio Romero, Katrin Ströbel