SPIDER PIECE

„She traps things in her web; she embroiders her tiny corner of the universe“

(Rachel Cusk, Louise Bourgeois: Suites on Fabric, 2019)

Miia Rinne, Mirka Raito, Gosia Machon, Niina Lehtonen Braun, Piia Rinne, Alice Chauchat

February 6–15, 2026

HilbertRaum, Berlin

Opening: Friday, February 6, 2026, 6–10 pm, with the live installation River Eye by Piia Rinne & Miia Rinne

Dance piece: Alice Chauchat, Sunday, February 8, 5 pm

Finissage / Sunday Salon: Sunday, February 15, 2026, 4–7 pm

SPIDER PIECE brings together installative, painterly, performative, and musical works that thread through the space like strands of a web. The exhibition sees the spider not merely as a metaphor, but as a model of thinking and perception; an entity that embodies both productivity and captivity, care and control, sensitivity and ambivalence.

The pieces respond differently to recurrent motifs throughout art history—specifically the work of Louise Bourgeois—such as: the duality of motherhood, corporeality, and artistic labour. The spider is industrious, precise, enduring; it weaves structures out of itself that are at once shield, archive, and trap. It remains bound to one place, yet perceives its surroundings with the utmost attention.

The participating artists contribute to the spider’s lexicon without defining it absolutely. Their works move between intimacy and display, between inner sensations and outer structures. Here, perception is not a stable state, but something fragile and fluctuating—a constant spinning, loosening, and repairing.

(exzerpt from the exhibition text by Katharina Schilling)