​​The Theatre

3 - 30 May 2025 

158 Rivington Street, NYC, NY

Contact: info@LUmkA.com

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LUmkA is pleased to present The Theatre at 158 Rivington Street, NYC, NY, on view from 3 to 30 May 2025. Please join us for an opening reception on 3 May 2025 from 6 - 8 PM.

 

The Theatre houses environmental installations by Anna Ting Möller, Luca Rekosh, Marianna Rothen, and Miles Scharff to disrupt the consumer mind and propose a more authentic mode of being. Opposing qualitative and quantitative reasoning, sensory perception, memory, and physical and immaterial realities organize the experiential model of exhibition.

 

In a late-capitalist society that validates existence through perpetual consumption, we lose sight of the fact that reality is largely immaterial at its atomic level. Meanwhile, consumption becomes data, feeding algorithmic systems that target the unconscious mind—awakening desire like a sleeper agent. These subliminal cues amplify consumer longing, reinforcing a positive feedback loop that commodifies even the most intimate practices and distances us from embodied experience.

 

In the ruins of a hype beast retailer, a mélange of mannequins, animism, and electromagnetic field interpretations become The Theatre. Through sensory-based interventions, the exhibition disrupts this addictive compulsion toward materialism, proposing an invitation to return to presence, perception, and the reality of lived experience.

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Organized in collaboration with Nicoleta Krentaras and Mila Rae Mancuso as LUmkA's last New York City exhibition prior to moving to London, UK (Fall 2025.)