Troika

Troika’s work explores shifting boundaries between nature and artificiality, the real and the romantic, the living and the nonliving. The artist group explores how new technologies affect our relationship with the world.

Founded in 2003, the German-French collective Troika—with the members Eva Rucki (b. 1976, Germany), Conny Freyer (b. 1976, Germany), and Sebastien Noel (b. 1977, France)—works across various media, including sculpture, film, installation, and painting. For the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, the group is developing a new immersive installation that explores different kinds of intelligence—plant, animal, human, artificial—and how they probe our understanding of our place in a more-than-human world. As developments in artificial intelligence rapidly advance, this new work directly addresses how conceptions of human intelligence and agency are shaking and shifting.