Troika is a Franco-German contemporary art group formed by Eva Rucki (b. 1976, Germany), Conny Freyer (b. 1976, Germany) and Sebastien Noel (b. 1977, France) in 2003.
Working across media in sculpture, film, installation, and painting, their work contemplates humanity’s experiences and attitudes towards new technologies and how these transform our understanding and relationships to nature, each other and the wider world. Their artworks broach themes that include artificial intelligence, algorithmic data, forms of life, virtual and physical representation systems.
Their practice is often based in research and explores systems of knowledge in the fields of natural philosophy and the history of technology. In 2019 Troika started a research project together with biologists, neuroscientists, the British Antarctic Survey and physicists from Cambridge University which culminated in Troika’s permanent outdoor installation ‘Third Nature’ that opened to the public in 2024.
Troika’s work is part of the permanent collections of M+, Hong Kong, the Victoria & Albert Museum London, The Art Institute of Chicago, MoMA New York, Jumex Collection Mexico, the Israel Museum and Centre Georges Pompidou.
Eva Rucki, Conny Freyer and Sebastien Noel live and work in London. Troika is represented by Max Goelitz (Munich), OMR (Mexico City), and Ron Mandos (Amsterdam).
Solo & Duo Exhibitions
- 2025 ’Buenavista‘, SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE, Frankfurt, 7 Mar – 21 Apr2025
- 2024 ’Pink Noise’, Langen Foundation, Neuss, 1 Sept – 16 Mar 2025
- 2024 ’Terminal Beach’, MAK, Vienna, 1 May – 8 Aug 2024
- 2023 ‘In a Forest of Red, Green and Blue’, Cécile B. Evans and Troika, max goelitz, Munich
- 2021 ’No Sound of Water’, Arte Abierto, Mexico City
- 2021 ’To See the World Through a Grain of Salt’, OMR, Mexico City
- 2018 ’Borrowed Light’, Barbican, London
- 2017 ‘Compression Loss’, Galería OMR, Mexico City
- 2017 ‘Glitches’, Renie Spoelstra and Troika, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
- 2016 ‘Everything is and isn’t at the same time’, Galerie Huit, Hong Kong
- 2015 ‘Limits of a Known Territory’, NC-arte, Bogotá
- 2015 ‘Cartography of Control’, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
- 2014 ‘Dark Matter’, Art Basel Unlimited, Basel
- 2014 ‘Persistent Illusions’, Daelim Museum, Seoul
- 2013 ‘The Far Side of Reason’, OMR, México City
Group Exhibitions
- 2025 ’Model Collapse’, Vienna Digital Cultures, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, AU, 5 May – 18 May 2025,
- 2025 ’Poetics of Encryption’, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, CZ
- 2025 ‘Hypercreatures: Future Mythologies’, Max Ernst Museum, Brühl, DE
- 2024 ’Poetics of Encryption’, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
- 2024 ’Poetics of Encryption’, KW Berlin, DE
- 2023 ’PaintingPhotography’, H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast, Augsburg, DE
- 2023 ‘Terra Libera: who does the landbelong to?’, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, NL
- 2023 ‘Seismic’, GIANT Gallery, Bournemouth, UK
- 2022 ‘Under der the sun’, Liz Deschenes, Rindon Johnson and Troika, Max Goelitz, Munich, DE
- 2022 ‘Ti con zero’, Palazzo Esposizioni Roma, IT
- 2021 ’To the Edge of Time’, University Library galleries KU Leuven, Belgium, BE
- 2021 ’Poetics of Reality (Encoded)’, Brigitte Kowanz and Troika, Max Goelitz, Munich, DE
- 2021 ’Mirrors/Mirages’, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, NL
- 2021 ’Real Feelings: Emotion and Technology’, MU Hybrid Art House, Eindhoven, NL
- 2020 ’On Earth’, Le lieu unique, Nantes
- 2020 ’Real Feelings: Emotion and Technology’, HeK, Basel, CH
- 2020 ’On Earth’, FOAM, Amsterdam, NL
- 2019 ‘Rencontres d’Arles: On Earth’, Arles, FR
- 2019 ‘Negative Space’, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
- 2018 Troika & Modern Forms, Floreat House, London, UK
- 2018 ‘Coding the World’, Centre Pompidou, Paris
- 2018 ‘Labyrinth Konkret’, Kulturspeicher Würzburg, DE
- 2018 ‘Transmission’, Galerie Huit, Hong Kong
- 2017 ‘Corridor III: Valdemar Daa’, Viborg Kunsthal
- 2017 ‘Art Light’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London
- 2017 ‘Everyday Abstraction’, Vejle Museum, Vejle, DK
- 2017 ‘The Hum’, Caustic Coastal, Salford, UK
- 2017 ‘Artefact Expo: The Act of Magic’, STUK, Leuven, BE
- 2016 ‘[un]expected: The Art of Chance’ Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, DE
- 2016 ‘Lightopia’, MARCO, Monterrey, MX
- 2016 ‘Cosmos’, Daejeon Museum, KR
- 2016 ‘Stream of Consciousness’, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, NL
- 2016 ‘Irisations’, Vasarely Foundation, Aix en Provence, FR
- 2015 ‘Globale: Exo-Evolution’, ZKM Karlsruhe, DE
- 2015 ‘A Point of Signification’, Galerie Huit, Hong Kong
- 2015 ‘Bread and Jam II’, 52 Whitbread Road, London, UK
- 2015 ‘Blackbox’, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, DE
- 2015 ‘Reverse Order’, Troika, Tobias Putrih and Larry Bell,
Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel, CH
- 2015 ‘26 rue du Départ’, Galerie Maubert, Paris, FR
- 2015 ‘Walk the line. New Paths in Drawing’, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE
- 2015 ‘Short Cuts’, Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt, Biel/Bienne, CH
- 2015 ‘Quantum of Disorder’, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, CH
- 2014 ‘Here Today…’, The Old Sorting Office, London, UK
- 2014 ‘Light Fantastic’, House of the Nobleman, London, UK
- 2014 ‘Art Robotique’, La Cité Des Sciences et De L’industrie, Paris, FR
- 2014 ‘INTERACT: Deconstructing Spectatorship’, The Courtauld Gallery, London, UK
- 2013 ’global aCtIVISm’,Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, DE
- 2013 ‘Lightopia’, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, DE
- 2013 ‘Call of the Mall’, Hoog Catherijne, Utrecht, NL
- 2013 ‘En vie – Alive’, Espace Fondation EDF, Paris, FR
- 2013 ‘Present Presence’, Jan-v-Eyck Academy, Maastricht, NL
- 2012 ‘What the machines are begging for?’, Song-Won Art Center, Seoul, KR
- 2012 ‘Intersections: Science in Contemporary Art’, Weizmann Institute of Science, IL
- 2012 ‘Never Ever Everland’, Kustera Projects Red Hook, New York
- 2011 ‘Curious Minds’, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
- 2012 ‘The Space between Now and Then’, OMR Gallery Mexico City, MX
- 2012 ‘Decode’, Holon Museum, Holon, IL 2012 ‘After the Bit Rush’, MU, Eindhoven, NL
- 2012 ‘Super Contemporary’, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, TW
- 2012 ‘Falling Light’, Input/Output Gallery, Hong Kong
- 2012 ‘Decode’, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture Moscow
- 2010 ‘Hyperlinks’, Art Institute of Chicago, US
- 2010 ‘Blur’, International Digital Art Festival Incheon, KR
- 2010 ‘Outerworlds’, Deloitte Luxembourg, LUX
- 2009 ‘Decode’, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
- 2008 ‘Nowhere/Now/Here’, LABoral, Gijon, SP
- 2008 ‘Blood on Paper’, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
- 2008 ‘Design and the Elastic Mind’, MoMA, New York
- 2008 ‘Volumes(s)’, Casino Luxembourg, LUX
- 2007 ‘Get It Louder’, Grandview Mall, Guangzhou, CN
- 2007 ‘Responsive’, Japan Roppongi Hill Arena, Tokyo, JP
- 2006 ‘Sensi Sotto Sopra’, Romaeuropa Festival Palladio Theater, Rome, IT
- 2006 ‘Noise of Art’, Tate Britain, London, UK
- 2006 ‘Lumieres Sonores’, Maison des Arts Creteil, FR
- 2005 ‘Contemporary Patrons Group Exhibition’, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
- 2005 ‘Ron Arad – The Masters Selection’, Ausstellungshalle für Zeitgenössische Kunst Münster, UK
- 2005 ‘Future Wireless’, The Dana Center Science Museum, London, UK
Troika
+44 (0)20 7729 3255 / studio@troika.uk.com
Unit E, 67 Digby Road, London E9 6HX
OMR
+52 55 5207 1080
omr.art
Córdoba 100, Roma Nte., Cuauhtémoc, 06700 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico
Max Goelitz
+49 89 89063944
Maximilianstrasse 35 Entrance, Herzog-Rudolf-Straße, 80539 München, Germany
Rudi-Dutschke-Straße 26, 10969 Berlin, Germany
Galerie Ron Mandos
+31 20 320 7036
Prinsengracht 282, 1016 HJ Amsterdam, Netherlands