An exhibition featuring the founders of Experimental Field, Ira Tsykhanskaya and Grisha Mumrikov, was held at the Empire Zero One Gallery in Cologne.
"Home-Airplane"
At the heart of this exhibition is the search for a home that goes beyond the boundaries of physical space. It's a longing for comfort, safety, and warm memories, for events that bring loved ones together at the same table.
In these challenging times, artists turn to the idea of home as a symbol of hope and strength. Their works explore how space can become a place of solace where one can once again feel warmth and joy. It's a story about desires that become especially acute when external circumstances disrupt the familiar order.
This is an opportunity to feel each other's support. The exhibition invites the viewer not only to see images of home, but also to reflect on their own place of power, where they always want to return.
Even in difficult times, something unshakable remains: the striving...

Grisha Mumrikov

Stone Age 21st Century

neon, wood.

Home is a concept that humanity has been reinterpreting for thousands of years. Cave paintings, created by an anonymous artist in a distant cave, became the first way to mark one's place in the world. These lines, drawn on stone, are an attempt to understand what home is: a temporary shelter or something more eternal?

The modern interpretation in neon refers us to our time, where home often becomes a fragile concept, reflecting the mobility and changeability of life. The light of neon is both a symbol of the present moment and its ephemerality, raising the question: how solid is our idea of home in an era of change?

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Ira Tsykhanskaya
Video, installation
Ira Tsykhanskaya's project "Gingerbread" is an immersion into the theme of cultural identity, experienced through the prism of migration experience. The artist's works, like archaeological findings, reveal layers of personal history interwoven with universal questions about belonging, roots, and the search for a new home.
The central motif of the project is the contrast between fragility and strength, between tradition and modernity. Crystal glasses, symbolizing the fragility of cultural norms and foundations, coexist with bread, representing the connection to the land, roots, and traditions. Gingerbread cookies, baked from earth, become artifacts that carry the genetic memory of the past.