The Theatre

Anna Ting Möller

Luca Rekosh

Marianna Rothen

Miles Scharff

Lumka is pleased to present The Theatre. The Theatre houses environmental installations 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.

The Theatre presents Lumka's last New York City exhibition prior to moving to London, UK.

Anna Ting Möller lives and works in New York City and Stockholm. Möller has an MFA in Visual Art, with a concentration in installation and expanded practices and a BFA from Konstfack University, Stockholm (2018). The artist explores the intersections of materiality, transformation, and bodily processes by working in symbiosis with a kombucha mother to create ephemeral sculpture/installation/performance that challenge conventional notions of life, death, lineage and care. Focusing on themes such as the sexualized and grotesque, Möller's art critiques societal constructs, particularly the fetishization of the Other. Möller recently completed a commission for and currently exhibited by MASS MoCA. Möller's work has been exhibited at Liljevalchs Konsthall; ArkDes; ICPNA; Jyväskylä Art Museum; Gallery Tutu; Urban Glass Kristianstad Konsthall; Gustavsbergs Konsthall; ArkDes; Carl Eldh Ateljemuseum and SE; ICPNA La Molina, among others.

Luca Rekosh is a Romanian-American, Brooklyn-based artist. Born in Manhattan, the artist spent formative years in Budapest and New York City, returning to New York permanently in 2008. Informed by a classical and life-long art education, Rekosh constructs multimedia sculptures that bridge cultures, mediums, and languages, exploring politics of accessibility in societal systems. The artist graduated from Pratt Institute in 2023 with a BFA in Sculpture and Integrated Practices.

Marianna Rothen uses her photographs, films and installations to explore and deconstruct conventional conceptions of female beauty and gender politics. Screenings and solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York, Polka Galerie in Paris, Biennale Images Vevey, Galerie Stephan Witschi in Zurich, The Little Black Gallery, London, Ingrid Deuss gallery in Antwerp and Kaune Contemporary in Cologne. Her work has been the subject of four monographs; Snow and Rose & other tales, Shadows in Paradise, Mail Order and Making It Real all published by b.frank books. Rothen's films include Like a Dream (2024), Mail Order (2019), The Woman with a Crown (2014) and Desert of June (2014). Her work has been featured in Apartamento Magazine, The New Yorker, Upstate Diary, New York Magazine, The Paris Review, Vogue, Photoworks, Elephant, Interview, AnOther and Huffington Post.

Miles Scharff is a sound artist and improvisor working with radio electronics, sound sculpture, video, spatial audio, and performance. His current research investigates the ways in which objects can become unintentional sites of reception and transmission for electromagnetic and acoustic signals. These sites, which exist as a byproduct of telecommunications and other industrial systems, sometimes allow for unexpected listening experiences. Scharff sees these sites as case studies on a larger spectrum between the prescribed logic systems of western science and the re-appropriation of these logic systems in conspiracy and fringe spiritualist communities. Scharff's work seeks to document or fabricate these interactions between physical object and invisible signal through the creation of devices and systems to be able to witness them through listening and recontextualization. This witnessing allows for invisible systems and phenomena, that would not otherwise be investigated, to be confronted and considered in relation to our bodies and environment. These investigations are not about distilling some form of truth, but to physicalize our experience such that it can be placed in a critical lens. Miles has exhibited work at New Uncanny, Fridman Gallery, Wallach Gallery, SK Gallery, Alice Holt Forest, The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Garden's, and The Rube Goldberg Foundation. He is a recipient of the 2024 Genelec Dr. Ilpo Martikainen Audio Visionary Scholarship.