TROIKA
Troika is a London collective founded by Eva Rucki, Conny Freyer and Sebastien Noel who are widely known for their experimental practise, sculptures, installations and projects that provoke and employ a cross-disciplinary approach and intersect between design, architecture, and contemporary installation.
They met while studying at the Royal College of Art and subsequently started their studio in 2003.
Often merging technology with their practice as a point of departure but also to actify their installations, Troika's work explores the intersection of scientific thought, observation and human experience and draws on the connections between the whole of human relations and their social and physical context.
While their work is often filled with polarities — solitude and interaction, transition and permanence, the artificial and the natural — their interest lies within man's resolve to synthesize these opposites.
In a spirit of optimism, they draw connections between radically different situations and look at our surroundings from a different perspective while setting the scene with scenarios and experiences that are notable in their formal simplicity and often touch upon our innate memories of sound, sight and movement.
Since establishing the studio in 2003 Troika's work has been exhibited, amongst others, at the Victoria & Albert Museum London, The Art Institute of Chicago, Tate Britain and MoMA New York. In 2010 Troika were selected to create three art installations for the UK Pavilion at the World Expo Shanghai. Troika's work is represented in the permanent collections of the Israel Museum Jerusalem, British Council, The Art Institute of Chicago, Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museum Of Modern Art New York.
Troika has authored two books to date: Digital by Design, Thames and Hudson, 2008; Moscow Style, Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2005, and, in 2009, won the D&AD Yellow Pencil for their digital sculpture 'Cloud' in London Heathrow Terminal 5 and their kinetic installation ‘Palindrome’ for the V&A in 2011.
contact:
Railway Arch 355
Laburnum Street
London E2 8BB
0207 729 3255
troika@troika.uk.com
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COLLECTIONS
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Swarovski Chrystal Palace Collection
The Art Institute Of Chicago
Museum of Modern Art, New York
British Council Collection
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
COMMISSIONING BODIES
THE CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY
VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM
BUILD TORONTO
BRITISH FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
BRITISH AIRWAYS PLC
BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (BBC)
MTV NETWORKS INTERNATIONAL
WARNER MUSIC UK
THE SCIENCE MUSEUM, LONDON
THAMES & HUDSON
BOOTH CLIBBORN EDITIONS
BASILDON COUNCIL
ARTWISE CURATORS
THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART
CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
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