What holds together, keeps apart

Exhibition by Svetlana Shuvaeva, Alevtina Lyapunova, Patrícia Peixoto
Live performance: RZNA (Rozina Pátkai)

02.12.2026 - 16.01.2027
AG18 Gallery (Annagasse 18, 1010 Vienna)
Wed-Fri: 3-7PM, Sa: 11-4PM

This exhibition explores the tension between the organic and the constructed, the familial and the bygone. The circle returns across mediums as a form of enclosure, carrying the past into the present.

Svetlana’s textile works turn the circle into both a fragile cellular web and a rigid structure inspired by Bavarian windows. Patricia uses lace inherited from her grandmother to replicate the blueprints of her family house. Alevtina’s paintings let bodies and forms move across the canvas, resisting containment.

Together, the works trace a line from the architectural shell to the vulnerable body, and loop back to the starting point: a shape that holds, repeats, and returns.

Public program
02.12.2026 6 PM: Vernissage and performance ‘What Remains’ by RZNA
10.12.2026 6 PM: Artist talk
16.01.2027 4PM: Curatorial tour and Finissage

What Remains
live sound performance by RZNA (Rozina Pátkai)

Can something return without ever being the same? What Remains explores the fragile relationship between repetition and change, between what we recognise and what slowly becomes unfamiliar. A sound returns, carrying traces of its previous existence, yet each repetition reveals something different. Like a memory revisited, a familiar gesture repeated or a circle that never quite closes, the same becomes something else. The performance inhabits the space between continuity and transformation, asking what remains of something as it endlessly changes.

Co-curated by Alejandra Zapata Torres and Justina Špeirokaitė

A collaboration between QMA and AG18 Gallery
Supported by Stadt Wien - MA7 and BMWKMS