The thistle is always the first to return
2025
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Philipp Hindahl, SCHIRN MAG Monthly, April 2025

The thistle is always the first to return

Philipp Hindahl — [...] The notion of destruction and a new beginning is an old and powerful narrative. A relatively new history, however, is one that places the rudus, the rubble, in the center of things. Waste dumps, the edges of roads, forgotten houses, blocked streets, abandoned building sites, industry and mining, the ruins of buildings, in the cracks and holes in tarmac and reinforced steel: Weeds blossom in all of[…]
Buenavista
2025
Work
Computer animated film, 8:00 min
‘Buenavista’ 2025 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Buenavista
2025
Solo Exhibition
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, DE
‘Buenavista’ 2025 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Pink Noise
2025
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Book, published by DISTANZ

Book, published by DISTANZ

TROIKA. PINK NOISE. Text by Dehlia Hannah & Nadim Samman, Daisy Hildyard & Nora N. Khan. Distanz 2025. English. – Pink Noise is Troika’s first monographic exhibition catalogue, released in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the Langen Foundation which features new productions as well as works from the past ten[…]
Hypercreatures – Future Mythologies 
2025
Group Exhibition
Max Ernst Museum, Brühl, DE
‘Hypercreatures’ 2025 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Above / Below
2025
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Daisy Hildyard, ‘Above/Below‘, in ‘Pink Noise‘, Distanz, 2025

‘Above/Below‘, Daisy Hildyard

For thousands of years before the advent of rapid global transport, people wondered why swallows vanished in winter, then reappeared in spring. In Europe, even in the nineteenth century, it was commonly understood that the birds would hide somewhere nearby, concealed so completely that no human could glimpse them. Perhaps they crept into the hollow enclosures within tree-trunks, or maybe they submerged themselves in the mud at the bottom of a pond or river and slept, breathing through some secret[…]
On Anima Atman
2025
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‘On Anima Atman‘, Nora N. Khan, in ‘Pink Noise‘, p. 123, Distanz, 2025

‘On Anima Atman‘, Nora N. Khan

In my garden, a grove of banana palms recently had two of its core trunks cut down. The palm leaves weighed heavy on the roof and routinely lurched over into the neighbour’s yard. In the days since the cut, the leaves of the remaining palms have started to turn, covering the stumps and exposed chips with restorative shadows. The fig tree, wildly intertwined with the palms, dropped further to cover the ground as we waited for it to heal. Each[…]
Untertage
2024
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Book, published by König Books

‘Untertage’

TROIKA. UNTERTAGE. Ed. by Fi Churchman. Text by Eva Wilson, Mark Rappolt & Ariane Koek. Cologne 2024. 17 x 23,5 cm. Buchhandlung Walther[…]
Pink Noise
2024
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’Pink Noise’, DISTANZ, 2024 Dehlia Hannah & Nadim Samman

’Pink Noise’

A cacophony of chirps, whistles, and buzzing greets visitors to the Langen Foundation. Emanating from a tree at the centre of its exterior Rotunda, noise ricochets o, the concrete semicircle, which forms an acoustic mirror for As Above, so Below (2024). Here, the sounds are readily associated with birds and insects of the kind one might expect in a pastoral[…]
Programming Harmony Touching Clear Sky
2024
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16 shades of red and green
‘Programming Harmony Touching Clear Sky’, 2024, Langen Foundation, 2024, Langen Foundation, 2024 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Buttercup (Canticle of the Creatures)
2024
Work
Carrara marble
’Buttercup (Canticle of the Creatures)’, 2024, Langen Foundation, 2024 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Apex Travelling in Different Directions
2024
Work
piles of silicon rock, quartzite, and salt
‘Pink Noise’, Langen Foundation, 2024 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
As Above So Below
2024
Work
Site-specific sound installation, recordings collected by space weather scientists in Antarctica
‘As Above so Below’, Langen Foundation, 2024 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Ultrared, Evergreen, Ocean Blue
2024
Work
Red, green, and blue colour filters
‘Buenavista’ 2025 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Electroprobe Installation #5 
2024
Work
Electric and electronic objects, rotating electromagnetic microphone
‘Pink Noise’, Langen Foundation, 2024 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
0.000000001%
2024
Work
Pile of silicon rock and quartzite
‘Pink Noise’, Langen Foundation, 2024 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
99.999999999%
2024
Work
Acheulean hand axe knapped from silicon rock
‘Pink Noise’, Langen Foundation, 2024 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Life and Death of an Algorithm
2024
Work
White dice, evolutionary algorithm
‘Pink Noise’, Langen Foundation, 2024 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Pink Noise
2024
Solo Exhibition
Langen Foundation, Neuss, DE
‘Pink Noise’, Langen Foundation, 2024 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Terminal Beach
2024
Solo Exhibition
MAK, Vienna, AT
‘Terminal Beach’, MAK Contemporary, 2024 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Anima Atman
2024
Work
Silicon, thistles, live sampling, custom lighting, and electro-mechanical system
‘Pink Noise’, Langen Foundation, 2024 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Anima Atman
2024
Solo Exhibition
max goelitz Berlin, DE
‘Anima Atman’, max goelitz, 2024 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Grenzgänger
2024
Work
Fused Deposition model, lacquer
‘Heron Sphinx’, Grenzgänger, 2024 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Obsolete Landscapes
2024
Work
Dye sublimation print, aluminium
‘Obsolete Landscapes’, 2024 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
Poetics of Encryption
2024
Group Exhibition
KW Berlin, DE
‘Poetics of Encryption’, 2024 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
In a Forest of Red, Green and Blue
2023
Duo Exhibition
max goelitz, Munich
‘In a Forest of Red, Green, and Blue’ 2023 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
Squaring the Circle
2023
Commission
Wiesbaden, Germany
‘Squaring the circle’ 2023 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
In a Forest of Red, Green and Blue
2023
Work
Fused deposition model and lacquer
‘In a Forest of Red, Green, and Blue’ 2023 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
Pile of Salt
2023
Work
Pile of 12.5 kg of salt
‘Pile of salt’ 2023 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
Maladaptation to the Screen
2023
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Dehlia Hannah, for ‘In a forest of red, green and blue’, Cécile B. Evans & Troika, Max Goelitz Gallery, Munich, 11 May–17 June 2023

‘Maladaptation to the Screen’
Dehlia Hannah

The 1818 novel Frankenstein, Or: the Modern Prometheus was adapted for the stage almost immediately after its publication. Audiences were fascinated by the tale itself and horrified by the thought that it was authored by a woman only eighteen years of age.  The young Mary Godwin began writing modernity’s paradigmatic tale of scientific hubris and the perils of emerging technology amid a love affair with a married man[…]
I Woke to Find Myself Scattered Across Continents
2023
Work
Fused deposition model and lacquer
‘I woke to find myself scattered across continents’ 2023 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
Third Nature
2023
Commission
Cambridge, UK
Forest Filled with Pines and Electronics
2022
Work
Paintings in 16 shades of red, green and blue
‘In a forest of red, green and blue’ 2023 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
Caught Knapping
2022
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Mark Rappolt, ‘Caught Knapping’, in ‘Untertage’

‘Caught Knapping’
Mark Rappolt

A pile of salt.1 Or perhaps two piles of salt. Neither is quite correct. Perhaps it’s easier, for the moment, to leave the material details to one side; to focus on the concept. After all, we’re always being told that that’s what contemporary art is really all about. In any case, everyone knows that today we live in a dematerialised world. How else could we have survived the great[…]
Salting the Earth
2022
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Eva Wilson, ‘Salting the Earth’, in ‘Untertage’

‘Salting the Earth‘
Eva Wilson

Accommodating multiple shades of the colours red, green, and blue as seen by a computer; a salt fountain; chemical gardens; flint chips and silicon wafers; and the last tree on earth,Troika’s project Untertage, developed over several years, takes shape as an elaborate ecosystemic fiction. The focus of the project’s narrative shifts away from a human protagonist and towards a non-human actor who, here, is devised as the real hero of an aeonian drama of world domination. Flipping the traditional figure-ground[…]
Life Matters
2022
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Ariane Koek, ‘Life Matters’, in ‘Untertage’

‘Life Matters’
Ariane Koek

‘What happens when human exceptionalism and bounded individualism, those old saws of Western philosophy and political economics, become unthinkable in the best sciences, whether natural or social? Seriously unthinkable: not available to think with.’   – Donna Haraway, “Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene”, e- flux Journal, Issue 75 (September[…]
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