UNCLE ORACLE
19/4/2026—31/5/2026
Curated by Piotr Sikora

MUD
​Museum of Arts and Design
​Benešov, Check Republic



It is said that Uncle Orakel knows the future. Supposedly, he can read it from fragments of architecture. Art Nouveau suits this purpose best — the old seer divines the tangled paths of the future from floral ornaments and from faces with lifeless eyes that gaze proudly at us from friezes and the capitals of pilasters. What exactly does he see in them? Keyvan Paydar invites us to create concrete visions of the future and to work with them using a tool called Orakel. Within it, we can discover what future awaits us and share our own vision of what the world should look like in 5, 10, or 15 years.

​Keyvan Paydar (*1984 Teheran, lives in Graz) studied painting and anthropology of art in Iran and sculpture with Markus Wilfling and ceramics with Irmgard Schaumberger in the master classes at Ortweinschule, Graz. Since 2013 he works as a freelance multimedia artist, art educator, musician and independent curator among others at „Atelierhaus Schaumbad Graz“ where he is working also as a board member since 2021. Paydar took part in international exhibitions, symposiums and residency-programs, ran a pop-up gallery in Graz and organized regional and international art projects.

Fotos: Silvie Heřmanská Korenkovawww.fotografka.cz/