The exhibition bitte keine Werbematerial takes place in a residential apartment, just before its inhabitant moves out. The apartment is being emptied, returning to its original state, preparing to take on a new identity. Amid the rise of far-right politics and ongoing gentrification, private and protected spaces are disappearing. Gathering places that once belonged to communities no longer exist. In such times, the home becomes one of the few remaining shelters — a space where conversations about political and social realities still take place at the end of the day.

In his book The Age of Unpeace, Mark Leonard describes how the very things that connect us: trade, technology, borders, migration have also become tools of division. In a time when walls are raised rather than lowered, connection itself starts to feel like intrusion, and intimacy becomes harder to sustain.

The exhibition in Vienna’s 10th district mirrors this condition. A place that was once both home and studio now becomes an exhibition space. The apartment has windows on both sides, only one real door, and the rest of the rooms are separated by curtains. It creates the sense that someone is always watching, that the space is never fully yours. The exhibition asks what it means to create and to share work when even personal space is under pressure.

The works shown here take on an almost sacred in a way. They embody the everyday dialogues that takes place at home and bring together issues that might seem separate — weaving them into one context. In this way, the exhibition echoes Leonard’s idea that the very threads once meant to connect us have turned into tools of division. Here, those divided fragments are brought together again, reconfigured into a temporary space of reflection.