
Fluid Structures

Opening: 26.6.26 from 6pm
Exhibition: 27 + 28.6 + 4.7.2026
Opening Hours: 2 – 5pm
In between dates by appointment
Contact: post@yulia-kazak.de
MOMENTUM at GAD
Freienwalderstr. 30
13359 Berlin
Featuring:
Thandiwe Adofo // Maria Arendt // Inna Artemova // Luis Carrera-Maul // Katya Dronova // Humatic // Iraida Icaza // Yulia Kazakova // Sergey Kishchenko // Ilia Kitup // Ola Kolehmainen // Vaiva Lanskoronskytė // Galya Lutzky // MishMash // NineL // Andrey Prigov // Nicholé Velásquez // Igor Zaidel
Curated by:
Maria Arendt // Inna Artemova // Yulia Kazakova // Rachel Rits-Volloch
For the 25th Anniversary of Kolonie Wedding

The exhibition presents artistic works that draw their primary motifs from urban space—not as a backdrop, but rather as an effective order situated at the intersection of built structures and fluid perception. The focus is not on the building itself, but on its cultural, social, and historical layers of interpretation. In the artistic process, functional structures are shifted, disrupted, and recoded according to their own visual logics. Architecture is the condensation of order made material, into which power relations, hierarchies, and forms of control are inscribed. Thus, its deconstruction goes beyond the formal, toward a positional questioning. The architectural no longer appears as a neutral shell; it re-inscribes itself as a repository of experience, memory, and symbolism.
The participating artists interpret the built environment as a fluid cultural and social fabric. Utopian and dystopian visions, processes of transformation and reordering, as well as themes such as mobility, migration, and personal and historical memory are addressed in various ways within the individual works. The formal clarity of the construction does not stand in isolation; it resonates with subjective perception and collective echoes. This opens up a subtle space for thought in which the boundaries between industrial systems, sensory engagement, and aesthetic autonomy shift and become fluid.
[Click on the name of each artist to see the bio and the work description below.]
Thandiwe Adofo
Maria Arendt
Inna Artemova
Luis Carrera-Maul
Katya Dronova
Humatic
Iraida Icaza
Yulia Kazakova
Sergey Kishchenko
Ilia Kitup
Ola Kolehmainen
Vaiva Lanskoronskytė
Galya Lutzky
MishMash
NineL
Andrey Prigov
Nicholé Velásquez
Igor Zaidel

SOLITUDE
2026, Mixed media installation: video, text, ceramic sculpture, dimensions variable

untitled (ode to berlin)
2025, Video with sound, original poetry, 1:59 on loop

untitled (i think of war)
2025, Video with sound, original poetry, 2:01 on loop

Cave City, Fragment of a Quarter, GUM, Quarter
2026, Mixed media: digital print based on an original textile work with artist’s hand-drawing,
42 × 29.7 cm (A3), Edition 1/10

UTOPIA #3275
2019, Ink, marker, pencil on paper, 36 x 53 cm
Courtesy of the MOMENTUM Collection

Study of space No 121 & 122
2024, Ink on paper, each 20.5 x 29 cm (with frame 30 x 40 cm)

Echo 01 R
2026, Installation: coat hangers and rod, 150 x 41 x 50 cm

Rev Thora-X
2025, Photographic print, 52 x 52 cm

Aq Saray
2014, Chromogenic print, 54 x 72 cm

Persepolis
2014, Chromogenic print, 53.5 x 72.5 cm

Model Kit, Module “Aircraft,” Element #4
2007, Acrylic on paper (mounted on wood), 50 × 37 cm

Duck Test #5 (Displacement)
2011, Video performance, color, sound, 11’40”
Courtesy of the MOMENTUM Collection



Three new works (2026) from the series
PROPELLER PICTORIAL LIBRARY
Since 2006, Digital print on paper, each 29.5 × 19.5 cm

House of Spiritual Retreat III & IV
2016, Archival ink jet print, framed, 43 × 47 cm
Courtesy of the MOMENTUM Collection

Ambiguity in Berlin
2026, Assemblage of 9 pieces created from found objects, dimensions variable

Urban Reflections #6
2025, Acrylic on mirror film, 40 x 50 cm

Urban Reflections #4
2024, Acrylic on mirror film, 40 x 40 cm

Inexcusable Style
2026, Wall-mounted installation: paper, wax, tree bark, ceramics, decay, dimesions variable

RGB Blinds
2026, Oil and acrylic on translucent fabric, 3 roller blinds,
each 170 × 3 × 60, total size 170 × 180 cm


Fountains of Cloudy Skies (Urban)
2025, Series of drawings on AI-generated images, 29.7 cm × 42 cm (A3)

Constructing The Tower Of Babel (With Crane) IV
2012, C-Print, vintage Artist Print, Unique Multiple Exposed Composition on Negative Film, 45 x 30 cm

Series Schwarmschwamm (Urbs Compressa)
Paris, 1999, black-and-white 35 mm negative film, scanned 2026; digital print
2026, Site-specific installation: polystyrene and fibreglass, each 35x35x50cm
WITH THANKS FOR GENEROUS SUPPORT:
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