Drei Schwestern
25 June – 10 August 2023
Sinaida Michalskaja
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Exhibition text
List of works
Press release
Sinaida Michalskaja
Dream of Shame*, 2023 (Sometimes everything feels like a dream)
Pencil on four walls
Dimensions variable
*quote from Shame by Ingmar Bergman
Installation view
Sinaida Michalskaja
Key hammered into wall, 2023
Security key, wall
3 x 2 x 7.5 cm
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Key horse drawing (birdface), 2023
Pastel on paper, glass, pins
29.7 x 20.5 cm
Installation view
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Key horse drawing (on kinship), 2023
Pastel on paper, glass, pins
29.7 x 20.5 cm
Installation view
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Food for horse (straw), 2023
Straw
25 x 52 x 38 cm
Jessica Andrey Bogush
One after another and all at the same time, 2023
Pastel, heaters, fuse box, marble eggs
Dimensions variable
Jessica Andrey Bogush
For Ryan, 2023
Pastel on paper, glass, pins
29.7 x 20.5 cm
Sinaida Michalskaja
Dream of Shame*, 2023 (it's not my dream, it's somebody else's)
Pencil on four walls
Dimensions variable
*quote from Shame by Ingmar Bergman
Jessica Andrey Bogush
For Ryan, 2023
Pastel on paper, glass, pins
29.7 x 20.5 cm
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for healing), 2023
Rake, agate, onyx, hematite, carnelian, tiger’s eye, citrine, rock crystal, rose quartz, blue lace agate, lapis lazuli, blue goldstone, amethyst, opal glass, lepidolite, acrylic disc
146.5 x 14 x 616 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for healing), 2023
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for healing), 2023
Rake, agate, onyx, hematite, carnelian, tiger’s eye, citrine, rock crystal, rose quartz, blue lace agate, lapis lazuli, blue goldstone, amethyst, opal glass, lepidolite, acrylic disc
146.5 x 14 x 616 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for healing), 2023
Rake, agate, onyx, hematite, carnelian, tiger’s eye, citrine, rock crystal, rose quartz, blue lace agate, lapis lazuli, blue goldstone, amethyst, opal glass, lepidolite, acrylic disc
146.5 x 14 x 616 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for healing), 2023
Rake, agate, onyx, hematite, carnelian, tiger’s eye, citrine, rock crystal, rose quartz, blue lace agate, lapis lazuli, blue goldstone, amethyst, opal glass, lepidolite, acrylic disc
146.5 x 14 x 616 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for healing), 2023
Rake, agate, onyx, hematite, carnelian, tiger’s eye, citrine, rock crystal, rose quartz, blue lace agate, lapis lazuli, blue goldstone, amethyst, opal glass, lepidolite, acrylic disc
146.5 x 14 x 616 cm
Detail
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Food for horse (fountain), 2023
Straw, water inlet valve
30 x 12 x 20 cm
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Für Sina, 2023
Pastel on paper, glass, pins
29.7 x 20.5 cm
Sinaida Michalskaja
Crystal from Norilsk (Eva), 2023
Apophyllite from Norilsk on acrylic stand
10 x 7 x 4.5 cm
Sinaida Michalskaja
Dream of Shame*, 2023 (but I have to participate in it)
Pencil on four walls
Dimensions variable
*quote from Shame by Ingmar Bergman
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Butterfly horse (To the friend who did not save my life), 2023
Cotton, stearine, chocolate wrapping
6 x 13.5 x 8 cm
Jessica Andrey Bogush
For Jessica (Several hours later my first erection (of what?) between my sunken thighs, sets me back into dreadful normality, which the nurse immediately confirms, speaking to me: “Sir” “Mister Guyotat Sir”.)*, 2023
Cardboard box, cotton twill, drawings on paper, mastic adhesive, archival tape
25 x 50 x 39.5 cm
*in parentheses a quote from Coma by Pierre Guyotat, 2010, translated by Noura Wedell
Jessica Andrey Bogush
For Jessica (Several hours later my first erection (of what?) between my sunken thighs, sets me back into dreadful normality, which the nurse immediately confirms, speaking to me: “Sir” “Mister Guyotat Sir”.)*, 2023
Cardboard box, cotton twill, drawings on paper, mastic adhesive, archival tape
25 x 50 x 39.5 cm
Detail
*in parentheses a quote from Coma by Pierre Guyotat, 2010, translated by Noura Wedell
Jessica Andrey Bogush
For Jessica (Several hours later my first erection (of what?) between my sunken thighs, sets me back into dreadful normality, which the nurse immediately confirms, speaking to me: “Sir” “Mister Guyotat Sir”.)*, 2023
Cardboard box, cotton twill, drawings on paper, mastic adhesive, archival tape
25 x 50 x 39.5 cm
Detail
*in parentheses a quote from Coma by Pierre Guyotat, 2010, translated by Noura Wedell
Installation view
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (chicken), 2023
Multipass (for you), 2023
Multipass (for alignment), 2023
Multipass (for cosmic alllove), 2023
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for alignment), 2023
Rake, temporary tattoos, stickers, quartz, heart shaped bead, soft pastel
8 x 20 x 123 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for alignment), 2023
Rake, temporary tattoos, stickers, quartz, heart shaped bead, soft pastel
8 x 20 x 123 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for you), 2023
Rake, glass crystal, clay, copper, blue tac, therapeutic tape, amazonite, handcuff keys, rings
10 x 21 x 78 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for you), 2023
Rake, glass crystal, clay, copper, blue tac, therapeutic tape, amazonite, handcuff keys, rings
10 x 21 x 78 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (chicken), 2023
Rake, lapis lazulis in gold mount, sapphire earring, amethyst earring, garnets, messing stand, cockring, nail polish
47.5 x 20 x 145 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (chicken), 2023
Rake, lapis lazulis in gold mount, sapphire earring, amethyst earring, garnets, messing stand, cockring, nail polish
47.5 x 20 x 145 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (chicken), 2023
Rake, lapis lazulis in gold mount, sapphire earring, amethyst earring, garnets, messing stand, cockring, nail polish
47.5 x 20 x 145 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for cosmic alllove), 2023
Rake, malachit, garnet, silver, copper, control wristbands, spirit level
11 x 21 x 168 cm
Detail
Installation view
Jessica Andrey Bogush
A holy horse (after Artaud), 2021
Pastel on paper, glass, pins
21 x 14.8 cm
Installation view
Jessica Andrey Bogush
For Sanna (a pleasure tense), 2023
Champagne glass, spider
21.5 x ø 6 cm
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Food for horse (mirror), 2023
Dried carrots, mirror
0.5 x 8 x 6 cm
Sinaida Michalskaja
Dream of Shame*, 2023 (Do you think the one who dreams us will feel ashamed when they wake up?)
Pencil on four walls
Dimensions variable
*quote from Shame by Ingmar Bergman
Installation view
Installation view
Photography by Dan Ipp
Press release
Shahin Zarinbal is pleased to present Drei Schwestern, an exhibition by Jessica Andrey Bogush and Sinaida Michalskaja.
Jessica Andrey Bogush shows drawings and installations in which the fantastic and the familiar are indistinguishable. Using circular materials and flaky compositions, they tackle and tickle the contemporary state of images and objects, offering actions of interspecies appreciation. Their practice mixes surrealist techniques of surprise and the grotesque with gestures of care and consideration.
Sinaida Michalskaja’s practice explores the potential of paradoxes as she balances the relationships between objects, materials and meanings. She activates objects with deep-rooted historical, linguistic or spiritual meanings by allowing them to perform their potentialities through support structures, interventional adornment, and situations incorporating their physical and non-physical properties.
Jessica Andrey Bogush and Sinaida Michalskaja have been collaborating since 2018, producing the two-person exhibition Zwei Schwestern at Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne in 2020, and the collaborative works Wrong hole (using ketamine femmunism to foster derealisation), 2021, and Rosa Butterfly (from keta femmunism to somatic interspecies communism), 2022.
Biographies
Jessica Andrey Bogush, born in 1987 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, lives and works in Helsinki, Finland and Berlin, Germany. Their exhibitions include Dreamy, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Skɪz(ə)m, Ostrava, Czech Republic, and When Everything Is Over So We Can Discuss, at The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki. Their work has been featured in Artforum, The British Journal Of Photography, and Foam Magazine, as well in the surveys Photography As Contemporary Art, published by Thames & Hudson, and Photography is Magic, published by Aperture. They have been working in several residencies, including Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, and HIAP, Helsinki. Bogush holds a BFA and MFA in Time and Space Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Arts Helsinki.
Sinada Michalskaja, born 1985 in Moscow, Russia, lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Her recent exhibitions include mixed feelings breaking patterns, Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne, Ici et là-bas, Goethe-Institut Paris, Soft Hits, Kunstraum Ortloff, Leipzig. Her work has been featured in Aperture, Philosophy of Photography, and POP. Kultur und Kritik, among others. Michalskaja holds a Meisterschüler:innen degree from the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, an MA in Photography from Central Saint Martins, London, and a BA in Communication Design from the University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf.
Shahin Zarinbal
Leipziger Straße 55, 10117 Berlin
Drei Schwestern
25 June – 10 August 2023
Sinaida Michalskaja
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Exhibition text
List of works
Press release
Sinaida Michalskaja
Dream of Shame*, 2023 (Sometimes everything feels like a dream)
Pencil on four walls
Dimensions variable
*quote from Shame by Ingmar Bergman
Installation view
Sinaida Michalskaja
Key hammered into wall, 2023
Security key, wall
3 x 2 x 7.5 cm
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Key horse drawing (birdface), 2023
Pastel on paper, glass, pins
29.7 x 20.5 cm
Installation view
Sinaida Michalskaja
Dream of Shame*, 2023 (it's not my dream, it's somebody else's)
Pencil on four walls
Dimensions variable
*quote from Shame by Ingmar Bergman
Jessica Andrey Bogush
For Ryan, 2023
Pastel on paper, glass, pins
29.7 x 20.5 cm
Jessica Andrey Bogush
For Ryan, 2023
Pastel on paper, glass, pins
29.7 x 20.5 cm
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Food for horse (straw), 2023
Straw
25 x 52 x 38 cm
Installation view
Jessica Andrey Bogush
One after another and all at the same time, 2023
Pastel, heaters, fuse box, marble eggs
Dimensions variable
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Key horse drawing (on kinship), 2023
Pastel on paper, glass, pins
29.7 x 20.5 cm
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for healing), 2023
Rake, agate, onyx, hematite, carnelian, tiger’s eye, citrine, rock crystal, rose quartz, blue lace agate, lapis lazuli, blue goldstone, amethyst, opal glass, lepidolite, acrylic disc
146.5 x 14 x 616 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for healing), 2023
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for healing), 2023
Rake, agate, onyx, hematite, carnelian, tiger’s eye, citrine, rock crystal, rose quartz, blue lace agate, lapis lazuli, blue goldstone, amethyst, opal glass, lepidolite, acrylic disc
146.5 x 14 x 616 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for healing), 2023
Rake, agate, onyx, hematite, carnelian, tiger’s eye, citrine, rock crystal, rose quartz, blue lace agate, lapis lazuli, blue goldstone, amethyst, opal glass, lepidolite, acrylic disc
146.5 x 14 x 616 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for healing), 2023
Rake, agate, onyx, hematite, carnelian, tiger’s eye, citrine, rock crystal, rose quartz, blue lace agate, lapis lazuli, blue goldstone, amethyst, opal glass, lepidolite, acrylic disc
146.5 x 14 x 616 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for healing), 2023
Rake, agate, onyx, hematite, carnelian, tiger’s eye, citrine, rock crystal, rose quartz, blue lace agate, lapis lazuli, blue goldstone, amethyst, opal glass, lepidolite, acrylic disc
146.5 x 14 x 616 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for healing), 2023
Rake, agate, onyx, hematite, carnelian, tiger’s eye, citrine, rock crystal, rose quartz, blue lace agate, lapis lazuli, blue goldstone, amethyst, opal glass, lepidolite, acrylic disc
146.5 x 14 x 616 cm
Detail
Installation view
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Food for horse (fountain), 2023
Straw, water inlet valve
30 x 12 x 20 cm
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Für Sina, 2023
Pastel on paper, glass, pins
29.7 x 20.5 cm
Sinaida Michalskaja
Crystal from Norilsk (Eva), 2023
Apophyllite from Norilsk on acrylic stand
10 x 7 x 4.5 cm
Sinaida Michalskaja
Dream of Shame*, 2023 (but I have to participate in it)
Pencil on four walls
Dimensions variable
*quote from Shame by Ingmar Bergman
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Butterfly horse (To the friend who did not save my life), 2023
Cotton, stearine, chocolate wrapping
6 x 13.5 x 8 cm
Jessica Andrey Bogush
For Jessica (Several hours later my first erection (of what?) between my sunken thighs, sets me back into dreadful normality, which the nurse immediately confirms, speaking to me: “Sir” “Mister Guyotat Sir”.)*, 2023
Cardboard box, cotton twill, drawings on paper, mastic adhesive, archival tape
25 x 50 x 39.5 cm
*in parentheses a quote from Coma by Pierre Guyotat, 2010, translated by Noura Wedell
Jessica Andrey Bogush
For Jessica (Several hours later my first erection (of what?) between my sunken thighs, sets me back into dreadful normality, which the nurse immediately confirms, speaking to me: “Sir” “Mister Guyotat Sir”.)*, 2023
Cardboard box, cotton twill, drawings on paper, mastic adhesive, archival tape
25 x 50 x 39.5 cm
Detail
*in parentheses a quote from Coma by Pierre Guyotat, 2010, translated by Noura Wedell
Jessica Andrey Bogush
For Jessica (Several hours later my first erection (of what?) between my sunken thighs, sets me back into dreadful normality, which the nurse immediately confirms, speaking to me: “Sir” “Mister Guyotat Sir”.)*, 2023
Cardboard box, cotton twill, drawings on paper, mastic adhesive, archival tape
25 x 50 x 39.5 cm
Detail
*in parentheses a quote from Coma by Pierre Guyotat, 2010, translated by Noura Wedell
Installation view
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (chicken), 2023
Multipass (for you), 2023
Multipass (for alignment), 2023
Multipass (for cosmic alllove), 2023
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for alignment), 2023
Rake, temporary tattoos, stickers, quartz, heart shaped bead, soft pastel
8 x 20 x 123 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for alignment), 2023
Rake, temporary tattoos, stickers, quartz, heart shaped bead, soft pastel
8 x 20 x 123 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for you), 2023
Rake, glass crystal, clay, copper, blue tac, therapeutic tape, amazonite, handcuff keys, rings
10 x 21 x 78 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for you), 2023
Rake, glass crystal, clay, copper, blue tac, therapeutic tape, amazonite, handcuff keys, rings
10 x 21 x 78 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (chicken), 2023
Rake, lapis lazulis in gold mount, sapphire earring, amethyst earring, garnets, messing stand, cockring, nail polish
47.5 x 20 x 145 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (chicken), 2023
Rake, lapis lazulis in gold mount, sapphire earring, amethyst earring, garnets, messing stand, cockring, nail polish
47.5 x 20 x 145 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (chicken), 2023
Rake, lapis lazulis in gold mount, sapphire earring, amethyst earring, garnets, messing stand, cockring, nail polish
47.5 x 20 x 145 cm
Detail
Sinaida Michalskaja
Multipass (for cosmic alllove), 2023
Rake, malachit, garnet, silver, copper, control wristbands, spirit level
11 x 21 x 168 cm
Detail
Installation view
Jessica Andrey Bogush
A holy horse (after Artaud), 2021
Pastel on paper, glass, pins
21 x 14.8 cm
Installation view
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Key horse drawing (birdface), 2023
Pastel on paper, glass, pins
29.7 x 20.5 cm
Jessica Andrey Bogush
For Sanna (a pleasure tense), 2023
Champagne glass, spider
21.5 x ø 6 cm
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Food for horse (mirror), 2023
Dried carrots, mirror
0.5 x 8 x 6 cm
Sinaida Michalskaja
Dream of Shame*, 2023 (Do you think the one who dreams us will feel ashamed when they wake up?)
Pencil on four walls
Dimensions variable
*quote from Shame by Ingmar Bergman
Installation view
Photography by Dan Ipp
Press release
Shahin Zarinbal is pleased to present Drei Schwestern, an exhibition by Jessica Andrey Bogush and Sinaida Michalskaja.
Jessica Andrey Bogush shows drawings and installations in which the fantastic and the familiar are indistinguishable. Using circular materials and flaky compositions, they tackle and tickle the contemporary state of images and objects, offering actions of interspecies appreciation. Their practice mixes surrealist techniques of surprise and the grotesque with gestures of care and consideration.
Sinaida Michalskaja’s practice explores the potential of paradoxes as she balances the relationships between objects, materials and meanings. She activates objects with deep-rooted historical, linguistic or spiritual meanings by allowing them to perform their potentialities through support structures, interventional adornment, and situations incorporating their physical and non-physical properties.
Jessica Andrey Bogush and Sinaida Michalskaja have been collaborating since 2018, producing the two-person exhibition Zwei Schwestern at Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne in 2020, and the collaborative works Wrong hole (using ketamine femmusinm to foster derealisation), 2021, and Rosa Butterfly (from keta femmunism to somatic interspecies communism), 2022.
Biographies
Jessica Andrey Bogush, born in 1987 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, lives and works in Helsinki, Finland and Berlin, Germany. Their exhibitions include Dreamy, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Skɪz(ə)m, Ostrava, Czech Republic, and When Everything Is Over So We Can Discuss, at The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki. Their work has been featured in Artforum, The British Journal Of Photography, and Foam Magazine, as well in the surveys Photography As Contemporary Art, published by Thames & Hudson, and Photography is Magic, published by Aperture. They have been working in several residencies, including Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, and HIAP, Helsinki. Bogush holds a BFA and MFA in Time and Space Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Arts Helsinki.
Sinada Michalskaja, born 1985 in Moscow, Russia, lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Her recent exhibitions include mixed feelings breaking patterns, Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne, Ici
et là-bas, Goethe-Institut Paris, Soft Hits, Kunstraum Ortloff, Leipzig. Her work has been featured in Aperture, Philosophy of Photography, and POP. Kultur und Kritik, among others. Michalskaja holds a Meisterschüler:innen degree from the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, an MA in Photography from Central Saint Martins, London, and a BA in Communication Design from the University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf.