Troika
if you're in Copenhagen in September...
By Louise Darblay
From 29 to 31 August, ArtReview will be in Copenhagen, hosting a talks programme at CHART, the second edition of the city's boutique contemporary art fair. Here's a selection of what else to see if you join us in the city of mermaids and armwrestling.
Troika will be exhibiting Testing Time in Bread and Jam, a series of exhibitions taking place in a gutted and soon to be refurbished house in 52 Whitbread Road, Brockley, London.
Read MoreThe show, including Troika's new sculpture Polar Spectrum, explores the theme of perception, what it is influenced by, its relationship with the concept of truth and the differences between subjective experiences.
Read More"Don't Touch anything and you'll be safe, You're very close to death." says Sebastien Noel. We're huddling under a shed of sorts built from small timbers and draped in plastic. The structure covers a 5 by 10 foot sheet of woven matte photo paper that is sprawled across tempered-glass table, which the Franco-Italian artist and his German partners, Eva Rucki and Conny Freyer, known professionally as Troika, use to create their increasingly popular "light: drawings.
Read MoreMuch contemporary art (though perhaps all art, always) has trust issues. It asks us to question what we think trustworthy. Take Troika's 'Limits of a Known Territory', a site-specific installation currently on display at NC-arte in Bogotá.
Read MoreTroika is part of the group show ‘Reverse Order: Troika, Tobias Putrih, Larry Bell’ at Anne Mosseri - Marlio Galerie in Basel.
On the 18th of June the gallery will host a special vernissage for Troika's new sculpture Polar Spectrum (2015), currently on tour from the group show ‘Short Cuts’ at Kunsthaus Centre PasquArt in Biel / Bienne.
Read MoreTroika has been selected for a solo exhibition at NC Arte, Bogotá in 2015. NC Arte is a cultural gallery with an educational program funded by Neme Foundation. Its main purpose is to contribute to the development of the visual arts in Colombia and Latin America.
Read More‘Drawing Biennial 2015’ at the Drawing Room
London / 5 March- 30 April 2015
‘Shortcuts’ at Kunsthaus Centre PasquArt
Biel/Bienne / 19 Apr. - 14 Jun. 2015
‘Walk the Line. New Paths in Drawing’ at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg / 26 Apr. -16 Aug. 2015
‘Limits of a Known Territory’ at NCarte (solo show)
Bogota / 13 Jun. - 5 Sept. 2015
‘Globale. Renaissance 2.0’ at ZKM / Centre for Art and Media
Karlsruhe / 21 Jun. 2015 - Spring 2016
This is the last week to see the fascinating Cartography of Control, the first stateside exhibition by Troika, the UK-based artist collective Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel. This brainy show uses drawings, installations and sculptures to explore the idea that society has become “increasingly governed by rational thinking and scientific methodology” — through maps that offer “different accounts of the same territory” and an installation that appears to change shape depending where the viewer is standing.
Read MoreThe show examines the topic of order and disorder combining constructivist-concrete or digital art with fields of mathematical research, exploring the similarities and differences between artistic and scientific approaches.
The exhibition includes works by Thomas Baumann, Cod.Act, Attila Csörgő, Alexandre Joly, Peter Kogler, Pe Lang, Carsten Nicolai, Troika and Semiconductor.
Read MoreRelinquishing control is the central theme of London-based trio Troika’s “Cartography of Control.” It’s the first stateside show for the collective formed by Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel, who employ a distinctly scientific approach to their work. The eloquently heady exhibition, currently on view at Kohn Gallery’s 12,000-square-foot space in Hollywood, uses experimental procedures to question the really big stuff, like the laws of gravity or the path of least resistance. Though their work nods to mid-century mathematicians like Alan Turing and Einstein who were masters of prediction, Troika feel at ease leaving the outcome of their own experiments to fate.
Read MoreLOS ANGELES, CA.- Kohn Gallery presents Cartography of Control, the first solo exhibition by Troika in North America. This new exhibition brings together both existing and new works including drawings, installation and sculpture.
Read MoreThe European artist collective Troika will make its North American debut with “Cartography of Control,” a new exhibition at Kohn Gallery that explores the roles that systems and serendipity play in contemporary life. One series of works, for example, consists of thousands of black-and-white dice laid out in coordination to create machine-like patterns.
Read MoreWhen it comes to the universe or nature, can we really talk of control? Human being have been relying on their developing notion of knowledge in order to understand and practice the way of governing forces we might not truly understand. And, what of it? We have managed to gain control over the vastness of the ocean, travelled to the Moon and harnessed the power of electricity? But what does this control entail? How far can our scientific methods lead us in this quest for control? Find out at Kohn Gallery in the upcoming period…
Read MoreLos Angeles's Kohn Gallery will host the first North America solo exhibition for European artist collective Troika. Titled "Cartography of Control," the show is inspired by the increasingly rational and scientific precepts that seem to govern society. Through a series of sculptures, drawings, and installations, Troika hopes to challenge the idea that there is only one way to interpret human experience.
Read MoreThis November in London, the international contemporary art exhibition ‘Here Today…’explores the current state of our environment through diverse perspectives and media: painting, installation, wallpaper, sound, video, dance, music, sculpture and photography.
Read MoreFor nearly 10 years, Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, and Sebastien Noel have been presenting the art world with their immersive light sculptures and installations. At this year’s Unlimited Section of Art Basel, the French-German trio that calls itself Troika shows “Dark Matter” (2014), a large-scale aluminum structure. Here, the group discusses the work.
Read MorePersistent Illusions
Daelim Museum for Contemporary Art, Seoul
April 14 - October 12, 2014
