Egor Mir

Egor Miroshnichenko

Freelance Curator
Curatorial Department at K20/K21 Kunstsammlung NRW

Düsseldorf

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

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GRUSS AUS DEM PARK WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS
YES, APOCALYPSE YES TODAY FOLLINES AND FICTIONS
FOLLINES AND FICTIONS

GRUSS AUS DEM PARK
at documenta halle
Kassel, Germany

Exhibition text

The concept of the park has ancient and diverse roots across different cultures worldwide. In Europe, parks began to take on a clearer form in the 16th century as idyllic, planned landscapes arranged around their privileged owners. They represent a threshold between the natural and the artificial: an illusionistic, staged space of wild nature designed to evoke emotion.

The group show explores the concept of parks through its different layers. Ella’s wooden spheres gently pull the room into a unified rhythm and landscape, drawing the viewer into the predetermined nature of the park’s paths. Next to it, on Lara’s shelf, plastic models of park railings, designed to imitate branches and trunks, reveal a tension between artificiality and natural materiality. This interplay between nature and fabrication continues in Frej’s illusionistic painting, which distorts the surrounding space, accompanied by a book of Rodin’s sculptures with a forgotten herbarium pressed between its pages. A nearby work by Anna centers on Le Gros Caillou—a giant stone carried by glaciers and later transformed into a central landmark and monument in one of Lyon’s districts.

On the floor lies Emmilou’s watch winder with four miniature labyrinths, recalling both childhood games and the geometric mazes of Renaissance gardens. A similar labyrinthine structure emerges in the fragile porcelain installation by Yuxiu and Imaan, inspired by ruins and cycles of decay and regeneration. The following work by the print collective podklet explores the coexistence of abandoned military infrastructure and the overgrown park spaces around it. The exhibition concludes with Evelyn’s video work—a play of cinema green screen projections embedded within the environment of the park.

In this context, the park becomes a space of duality—both artificial and “natural,” controlled and free, real and simulated. It imitates nature, the passage of time, and cultural codes, yet it remains a man-made construct and a utopia, an idealized space in which nature and time not only exist but are also controlled, composed, and interpreted.

Group exhibition
May 17 — May 25, 2026

Anna Penn
Emmilou Roessling
Ella Pechechian
Evelyn Roh
Frej Himmelstrup
Lara Finkenstädt
podklet

Selected publications

schirn mag

floorplan

Exhibition view

Emmilou Roessling
“The longest Sentence”, 2024
Watch winder, microcontroller, tin casted labyrinths, steel
balls, glass and power bank
24 x 29 x 16 cm

Ella Pechechian
“39”, 2025
39 handcarved lime balls, 6 cm diameter

Frej Himmelstrup
“Knot”, 2024
oil on wood

Anna Penn
“o.T. (Findling)”, 2025
90,6 x 49,8 cm
uv-print on cardboard, ink-jet print

Exhibition view

Frej Himmelstrup
“Unarmed meditation”, 2004—2024
book and dried flowers

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Exhibition view

Lara Finkenstädt
“left to right: landscape at parc des Buttes-Chaumont,
archival park architecture Biarritz, landscape at Woluwe
park, land scape at parc des Buttes-Chaumont”, 2025
various sizes/200cmx35cm plastic, acrylic paint, glazed wood

Exhibition view

podklet
quite spots and several monuments, 2025
dot matrix print
hectograph print
tractor-feed paper
33 x 3600 cm
ribbon cartridge
hectograph plate

Evelyn Roh
“Harp in the Park”, 2025
digital video, sound, 3.40 min

Imaan Sattar & Yuxiu Xiong
“05:30 AM”, 2025
ink and graphite on porcelain, clear lacquer, ss bolts and
rubber, tracing paper and tape

Curator:Egor Miroshnichenko
Text:Egor Miroshnichenko
Photography:Anna Penn & Egor Miroshnichenko