Oct 2025-Feb 2026

Leather saddle, cotton fabric “Kalmuck”, rope, laminated text, audio, 3′, 60 × 60 × 40 cm

Location: Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin

This work starts from a document in my family archive. It shows how my great-grandfather slowly lost his property and how this process ended with his family’s deportation in 1931. 

From this single document, I look at the wider history of Russia in the southern steppe—colonial rule, forced resettlement, and everyday oppression—and how these structures still affect the present. 

At the center of the work is a horse saddle wrapped in white “Kalmuck” cloth, once used to cover saddles. 

The saddle plays my voice, telling family and shared stories, and creates a simple connection between past and present, and between personal memory and official narratives.