Sinaida Michalskaja Debuts "Cat on tree" at Shahin Zarinbal for Berlin Art Week

Key facts

• Cat on tree is Sinaida Michalskaja's first solo exhibition with Shahin Zarinbal, presented for Berlin Art Week
• The exhibition centers on a new iteration of Michalskaja's Multipass series, sculptures built around found rakes
• Four Multipass works from 2026 are shown in the first gallery: (High Expectations), (Spread your wings and fly), (Hold your Horses) and (I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden / Judith)
• Two warm data works appear in the first room and a third in the second, alongside Multipass (Only two can play this game / Cat on tree), 2026, and N&L, 2015
• Free Speech for Cows, 2026, a poem from George Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form lecture, plays sporadically in the background
• The rakes are secured to avoid being stepped on, sometimes floating and sometimes balanced on support materials
• warm data (Volute, p. 312) features a page of Shola von Reinhold's novel LOTE; warm data (Ehre und Schande, p. 115) features Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain
• Michalskaja lives and works in Berlin; her earlier shows include Drei Schwestern (with Andrey Bogush) at Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin (2023) and mixed feeling breaking patterns at Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne (2020)