The three artistic perspectives explore freedom within limitation: how defined structures, systems, and constraints can become a starting point for new forms of free expression.
Born in 1917 in the Soviet Union, Anna Andreeva was denied the opportunity to pursue an art education and was instead required to work at the Red Rose Silk Factory in Moscow. Despite the conditions she developed an independent artistic language, transforming the machinery repetitive work into an imaginary microcosmos that evolved towards almost cybernetic forms. As a result her designs became iconic for a fabric of the 1970s. The exhibition features Andreeva’s works on paper from the 1970s, alongside original silk fabrics from the 1960s/1970s.
Legendary Swiss architects Trix (1933) and Robert (1931-2021) Haussmann challenged the principles of modernist architecture, particularly the idea that form follows the function. In their Spiegel-Teppich-Objekte series, mirrors and carpets transform familiar architectural elements into optical experiences, disrupting the perception of space and turning the mirror into a “virtual instrument” for creating new realities. The exhibition includes an installation Spacegrid developed in 1986 and reproduced in 2025 as a part of Zurich Design Week.
A special place in the exhibition is given to Equilibrium (2024), a large-scale outdoor mirrored sculpture. Its reflective surfaces absorb and transform the surrounding environment, dissolving the boundaries between virtual and physical reality. The object is presented in collaboration with Herald St Gallery, London.
Olga Tatarintsev’s (1967) “Limitation of Sound” series explores the boundaries of expression itself. By translating sound, rhythm, and repetition into abstract colorful visual compositions, she provides alternative forms of communication when the conventional language reaches its limits.
Together, the works explore the delicate “equilibrium” between restriction and liberation, order and imagination, function and artistic autonomy.
