Studien der Übungen

Studien der Übungen: Jogging, 2025 (Camera: Philipp Hoelzgen)

Studien der Übungen

2025, five-channel video installation

Exhibition
Nah am Wasser | Ob vodi

Camera
Philipp Hoelzgen, Kevin Chao, Michail Michailov

Installation views
Alina Zeichen

The installation examines how physical culture shapes and constrains the body, from nationalist gymnastics and modern fitness rituals to the subtle regimes of self-optimization. Yet repetition also becomes a site of refusal: gestures slip, slow, exaggerate, falter, become absurd. The body resists its own choreography, queering ideals of strength, purity and control.

Installed within sight of a landscape long associated with ideals of discipline, vitality and national identity, the work echoes the lingering histories inscribed in its surroundings. The traces of order, conformity and control persist not only in memory, but in the quiet aesthetic of space, posture and repetition.

Presented across multiple screens, the sequences form a dispersed choreography of exhaustion and persistence. Their differing tempos and durations unsettle the room’s calmness, suggesting not one body but many, not one time but several. In this accumulation of effort and collapse, the work asks what remains when repetition no longer produces progress — when movement itself becomes a form of resistance, endurance, and care.

Studien der Übungen: Pushups, 2025 (Camera: Philipp Hoelzgen)

Studien der Übungen: Laterals, 2025 (Camera: Kevin Chao)

Studien der Übungen: Running, 2024 (Camera: Michail Michailov)

Studien der Übungen: Training, 2024