ICON – Trace and Echo

The exhibition brings together three artistic positions that approach the iconic not as a fixed category, but as a multilayered process of relation and approximation. Its point of departure is Charles S. Peirce’s semiotic distinction, according to which the icon functions through resemblance, resonance, and recognition. Each artist expands this concept in her own direction: toward the self, the city, and the found object.

The exhibition features works emerging from drawing and play, as well as reliefs, object art, media works, and AR installations.

Aleksandra Yurieva-Civjane works at the intersection of memory, inner imagery, and autobiographical cartography.

Alexandra Goloborodko turns her gaze outward: toward urban monuments that are digitally transformed and re-iconized.

Birgit Bellmann focuses on objects with which she enters into artistic resonance: fragments, found pieces, small carriers of meaning that oscillate between everyday materiality and aesthetic charge.

Whether autobiographical trace, urban fragment, or auratic object, all three positions describe the icon as a relational form — a way of selecting, touching, storing, and recontextualizing the world. ICON presents three ways in which images can become carriers of experience: within the self, in urban space, and in cultural memory.

Opening
Friday, May 8 | 6:00–10:00 PM

Further Opening Hours
Saturday, May 9 | 2:00–8:00 PM
Sunday, May 10 | 2:00–6:00 PM

Projektraum n, Biesentaler Str. 5, 13359 Berlin