Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Video documentation of ‘Closer,’ an exhibition of paintings by Sanya Kantarovsky at Capitain Petzel gallery in Berlin; filmed by MONA productions.
Responding directly to the Soviet-era modernist architecture of Kunst im Heim, Karl-Marx-Allee 45, Kantarovsky altered the space with a symmetrical arrangement of walls that evoked both religious architecture and anatomical symmetry. This intervention set the stage for motifs of anatomy, biology and spirituality present throughout the displayed artworks. This group of paintings, created in 2021 and at the beginning of 2022, reflects on death and our persistent reminder of it—the body.
Video by MONA | Produced by Monica Salazar | Filmed and edited by Frank Zerban
Video documentation of ‘Closer,’ an exhibition of paintings by Sanya Kantarovsky at Capitain Petzel gallery in Berlin; filmed by MONA productions.
Responding directly to the Soviet-era modernist architecture of Kunst im Heim, Karl-Marx-Allee 45, Kantarovsky altered the space with a symmetrical arrangement of walls that evoked both religious architecture and anatomical symmetry. This intervention set the stage for motifs of anatomy, biology and spirituality present throughout the displayed artworks. This group of paintings, created in 2021 and at the beginning of 2022, reflects on death and our persistent reminder of it—the body.
Video by MONA | Produced by Monica Salazar | Filmed and edited by Frank Zerban
