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Troika is a London based studio founded by Eva Rucki, Conny Freyer and Sebastien Noel who are widely known for their experimental practise, sculptures, installations and projects that provoke and employ a cross-disciplinary approach and intersect between sculpture, architecture, and contemporary installation.

They met while studying at the Royal College of Art and subsequently started their studio in 2003, emerging as an integrated practice that creates work collectively through detailed research, dialogue and experiment.

Often merging technology with their projects as a point of departure but also to actify their installations, their work explores the intersection of scientific thought, observation and the changing nature of reality and human experience.

With a particular interest in perception and the spatial experience many of Troika's work draw inspiration from fundamental scientific, optical and mechanical principles that pay tribute to the works of Isaac Newton or Étienne-Jules Marey.

And while their work is often filled with polarities — solitude and interaction, transition and permanence, the artificial and the natural — their interest lies within man's resolve to synthesize these opposites.

Since establishing the studio in 2003 Troika's work has been exhibited, amongst others, at the Victoria & Albert Museum London, The Art Institute of Chicago, Tate Britain and MoMA New York. In 2010 Troika were selected to create three art installations for the UK Pavilion at the World Expo Shanghai. Troika's work is represented in the permanent collections of the Israel Museum Jerusalem, British Council, The Art Institute of Chicago, Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museum Of Modern Art New York.

Troika has authored two books to date: Digital by Design, Thames and Hudson, 2008; Moscow Style, Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2005, and, in 2009, won the D&AD Yellow Pencil for their digital sculpture 'Cloud' in London Heathrow Terminal 5 and ‘Palindrome’ at the V&A in 2011. In 2012 Troika was nominated for the Design of the Year Award by the Design Museum.

CONTACT:

Railway Arch 355
Laburnum Street
London E2 8BB

020 7729 3255

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COLLECTIONS:

Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Swarovski Crystal Palace Collection
The Art Institute Of Chicago
Museum of Modern Art, New York
British Council Collection
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

COMMISSIONING BODIES:

SELFRIDGES LONDON
THE CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY
VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM
TPLC (TORONTO PORT LANDS COMPANY)
BRITISH FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
BRITISH AIRWAYS PLC
BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (BBC)
MTV NETWORKS INTERNATIONAL
WARNER MUSIC UK
THE SCIENCE MUSEUM, LONDON
THAMES & HUDSON
BOOTH CLIBBORN EDITIONS
BASILDON COUNCIL
ARTWISE CURATORS
THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART
CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Digital By Design
Troika
Thames & Hudson, 2008

Curious Minds: New Approaches in Design
(Exhibition Catalogue)
Israel Museum, March 2012

See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception
Madeline Schwartzman,
Black dog Publishing, Jun 2011

Hyperlinks: Architecture and Design
(Exhibition Catalogue)
Art Institute Of Chicago, Dec 2010

Outer Worlds
(Exhibition Catalogue)
Contemporary Art Society and Deloitte, Dec 2010