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May 19, 2025

A Trap To Live Within

Group show curated by Kuba Stępień @Reichenberger Str. 114, Berlin

May 02, 2025

Filipka Rutkowska, I don_t want prostate cancer to slow me down, 2024, collage with charcoal and pastel on paper, 70 x 100 cm

when she was growing up she was voiceless

locked from the inside but without feeling claustrophobic

shell shelter second skin

a collection of letters and a freak on a leash


music is nice, but ideas are stronger

to know who I want to be I had to learn who I don’t want to be

I want to produce a break, waiting for everything to happen at the same time
 and to do it and to do it and to do it to keep the ball in the air


there are also things that cannot be articulated in words

how many rooms can you make ur own?

who the fuck knows? No fucking body

they do what they can inch by inch step by step mile by mile man by man

rename things once again

when u cut into the present and the future leaks out


I’m my own sibling I’m a full trap

living in my bed house

doing it without thinking


got a key to lock myself inside 


It’s not like I got used to it, but I’m trying to understand more and more
 I feel some kind of itching when I talk about it

meaning is promiscuous and it’s shifting

it’s still moving although if it’s not a part of me anymore
 measurement changes the thing that is measured

with some things the question is not if, but when it arrives to you

if u wait for sth to become worse it will

the show is a poem, it’s a …, it’s a cabaret

my farewell to berlin


— Kuba Stępień

Paula Breuer, Avatar IV, 200x70 cm acrilic on canvas, 2024, Zuza Miłobędzka, dice, 2024 , paper, cardboard, crayons, ribbons
Paula Breuer, Avatar IV, 200x70 cm acrilic on canvas, 2024
Julek Ploski, Desk view from a memory, 2025, uv print on paper, paper tape
Almitra Pyritidis, peeling (xefloudisma), 2025, eggs, wire, fabric, string, cabbage leaves
Emma Szumlas, The Restaurant of Many Orders, 2025, pencil on paper, aluminium frame, 40x50cm Emma Szumlas, Nasty feet, 2025, pencil on paper, aluminium frame, 40x50cm
A Trap To Live Within exhibiton view
Elsa Estrella, World of Interiors, 2025, acrylic glass, mdf, wood, paper, fabric, aluminium, two found pins, tape, miniature bathtub
Elsa Estrella, World of Interiors, 2025, acrylic glass, mdf, wood, paper, fabric, aluminium, two found pins, tape, miniature bathtub
Jan Baszak, Swan, 2024, Black used socks, upholstery foam, wood, glass eyes, 42x218cmx126 cm
A Trap To Live Within exhibition view
Seawon Park, The wind brings itself to bay, 2025, extended wall, (plaster boards, plaster, wood, wall paper), 31.5_25_269.5 cm
Weronika Wysocka, Carl Gustav Jung Fell at the Frankfurt Airport, 2025, repoussé copper, repoussé brass, black steel, vertical jalousien
Kuba Stępień, I_m my own sibling, I_m a full trap, 2025, ink, marker, pencil, glue, saliva, paper, acrylic paint and nail polish on polywood panel, 90x125 cm
Luka Naujoks, Bouquet, 2024, aluminium, acrylic glass, photo transfer, epoxy resin, variable dimensions
Paula Breuer, Ratte, 2024, marche paper, textile, wire, acrylic paint

A Trap To Live Within


Reichenberger Str. 114, Berlin

May 02, 2025

Artists: Almitra Pyritidis, Brad Nath, Elsa Estrella, Emma Szumlas, Filipka Rutkowska, Jan Baszak, Julek Płoski, Kuba Stępień, Luka Naujoks, Mati Szczanowicz, Paula Breuer, Seawon Park, Weronika Wysocka, Zuza Miłobędzka 

Curation: Kuba Stępień

Photography: Joanna Wilk/ All images copyright and courtesy of the artist and the gallery.

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