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© Victoria Sarangova

© Victoria Sarangova

Kooperationsprojekt

Studio Visit with Victoria Sarangova

08.08.2026
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

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As part of the exhibition Spitzen Rauschen, we will visit Victoria Sarangova in her studio in Neukölln to gain a deeper insight into her artistic practice and personal archive.

Sarangova’s artistic works address the themes of progress, memory, and identity. Her works are mostly site-specific and question how complex histories have engraved themselves into material and human memory.

Depending on the existing conditions of a site, Sarangova picks up and collects materials, only to then deconstruct and reassemble them. In the studio, she will show how a new work emerges from the resulting fragments.

The artist will also talk about her series Archaeology of Progress, which has taken her to different locations over the years. What does it mean to work like an archaeologist? Sarangova digs through archives, apartments, historical audio recordings, and memories — and she will show how this approach led her to the Ernst-Thälmann-Park.

The installation Spitzen Rauschen is currently exhibited at the Pforte. The studio visit leads back to the beginning of the work — to the material, the process, and the questions that starts.

The event will be held in English.

Due to limited capacity, we kindly ask for a binding registration by email by August 7 at
Zhijian.Lyu@ba-pankow.berlin.de

We look forward to an inspiring exchange with you!

Victoria Sarangova

Victoria Sarangova (born in 1985 in Kalmykia, a republic in southwestern Russia) works with sound, video, text, and handcrafted embroidery. Rooted in her homeland and drawing inspiration from her family archives and personal history, she explores themes of progress, memory, and identity in her often site-specific installations. She studied Performance: Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins College in London (B.A. 2014) and completed a Master’s degree in the program Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2020. Her work has been presented at venues including the CTM Festival 2024, the Ringtheater, and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin, as well as at Sound/Image 2023 in London. Sarangova is a co-founder of the MU collective, a group of artists from Kalmykia.