Cicek Gallery, London (2026)

27/04/2026

Next week… A solo exhibition by Evgeniya Strygina curated by Berfin Cicek.

here (not) there brings together two distinct yet interconnected phases of the artist’s practice. Earlier works focus on urban spaces and natural landscapes, often emptied of human presence, where attention is directed toward structure, atmosphere and the quiet language of form. In more recent works, the focus shifts toward people, memory and lived experience, reflecting an ongoing engagement with questions of belonging, displacement and identity.

At the centre of the exhibition is Home From Home, an evolving body of work developed over the past three years. Through photographic portraits, text, and archival materials, Strygina traces the experiences of immigration, exploring how the sense of home is reconstructed in unfamiliar environments. These works are not presented as fixed narratives, but as fragments of lived realities, shaped by distance, adaptation and emotional continuity.

Across the exhibition, space operates as both subject and condition. Landscapes and interiors no longer function solely as formal compositions, but as sites of transition where personal and collective histories intersect. Figures appear within these environments not as stable identities, but as presences negotiating between past and present, here and elsewhere.

Visually, the exhibition moves between clarity and ambiguity, combining more figurative photographic works with a conceptual framework that includes text, sequencing and archival traces. This layered approach resists singular interpretation, instead constructing a narrative that remains open and shifting.

here (not) there brings these elements into dialogue as an ongoing journey. The exhibition does not resolve the tensions it presents, but holds them in suspension, reflecting a state of in-between that is at once geographical, emotional and artistic.

Artist:
Evgeniya Strygina

Curator:
Berfin Cicek

Address:
200 Battersea Park Rd
London
SW11 4ND

Private View:
5 May
6-9pm

Opening times:
6-7 May
12-7pm

Admission is free. RSVP is required for Private View on 5th May - link in bio!

22/04/2026

In less than 2 weeks… A solo exhibition by Evgeniya Strygina curated by Berfin Cicek.

here (not) there brings together two distinct yet interconnected phases of the artist’s practice. Earlier works focus on urban spaces and natural landscapes, often emptied of human presence, where attention is directed toward structure, atmosphere and the quiet language of form. In more recent works, the focus shifts toward people, memory and lived experience, reflecting an ongoing engagement with questions of belonging, displacement and identity.

At the centre of the exhibition is Home From Home, an evolving body of work developed over the past three years. Through photographic portraits, text, and archival materials, Strygina traces the experiences of immigration, exploring how the sense of home is reconstructed in unfamiliar environments. These works are not presented as fixed narratives, but as fragments of lived realities, shaped by distance, adaptation and emotional continuity.

Across the exhibition, space operates as both subject and condition. Landscapes and interiors no longer function solely as formal compositions, but as sites of transition where personal and collective histories intersect. Figures appear within these environments not as stable identities, but as presences negotiating between past and present, here and elsewhere.

Visually, the exhibition moves between clarity and ambiguity, combining more figurative photographic works with a conceptual framework that includes text, sequencing and archival traces. This layered approach resists singular interpretation, instead constructing a narrative that remains open and shifting.

here (not) there brings these elements into dialogue as an ongoing journey. The exhibition does not resolve the tensions it presents, but holds them in suspension, reflecting a state of in-between that is at once geographical, emotional and artistic.

Artist:
Evgeniya Strygina

Curator:
Berfin Cicek

Address:
200 Battersea Park Rd
London
SW11 4ND

Private View:
5 May
6-9pm

Opening times:
6-7 May
12-7pm

Admission is free. RSVP is required for Private View on 5th May - link in bio!

20/04/2026

In 2 weeks… A solo exhibition by Evgeniya Strygina curated by Berfin Cicek.

here (not) there brings together two distinct yet interconnected phases of the artist’s practice. Earlier works focus on urban spaces and natural landscapes, often emptied of human presence, where attention is directed toward structure, atmosphere and the quiet language of form. In more recent works, the focus shifts toward people, memory and lived experience, reflecting an ongoing engagement with questions of belonging, displacement and identity.

At the centre of the exhibition is Home From Home, an evolving body of work developed over the past three years. Through photographic portraits, text, and archival materials, Strygina traces the experiences of immigration, exploring how the sense of home is reconstructed in unfamiliar environments. These works are not presented as fixed narratives, but as fragments of lived realities, shaped by distance, adaptation and emotional continuity.

Across the exhibition, space operates as both subject and condition. Landscapes and interiors no longer function solely as formal compositions, but as sites of transition where personal and collective histories intersect. Figures appear within these environments not as stable identities, but as presences negotiating between past and present, here and elsewhere.

Visually, the exhibition moves between clarity and ambiguity, combining more figurative photographic works with a conceptual framework that includes text, sequencing and archival traces. This layered approach resists singular interpretation, instead constructing a narrative that remains open and shifting.

here (not) there brings these elements into dialogue as an ongoing journey. The exhibition does not resolve the tensions it presents, but holds them in suspension, reflecting a state of in-between that is at once geographical, emotional and artistic.

Artist:
Evgeniya Strygina

Curator:
Berfin Cicek

Address:
200 Battersea Park Rd
London
SW11 4ND

Private View:
5 May
6-9pm

Opening times:
6-7 May
12-7pm

Admission is free. RSVP is required for Private View on 5th May - link in bio!

17/04/2026

Coming soon… A solo exhibition by Evgeniya Strygina curated by Berfin Cicek.

here (not) there brings together two distinct yet interconnected phases of the artist’s practice. Earlier works focus on urban spaces and natural landscapes, often emptied of human presence, where attention is directed toward structure, atmosphere and the quiet language of form. In more recent works, the focus shifts toward people, memory and lived experience, reflecting an ongoing engagement with questions of belonging, displacement and identity.

At the centre of the exhibition is Home From Home, an evolving body of work developed over the past three years. Through photographic portraits, text, and archival materials, Strygina traces the experiences of immigration, exploring how the sense of home is reconstructed in unfamiliar environments. These works are not presented as fixed narratives, but as fragments of lived realities, shaped by distance, adaptation and emotional continuity.

Across the exhibition, space operates as both subject and condition. Landscapes and interiors no longer function solely as formal compositions, but as sites of transition where personal and collective histories intersect. Figures appear within these environments not as stable identities, but as presences negotiating between past and present, here and elsewhere.

Visually, the exhibition moves between clarity and ambiguity, combining more figurative photographic works with a conceptual framework that includes text, sequencing and archival traces. This layered approach resists singular interpretation, instead constructing a narrative that remains open and shifting.

here (not) there brings these elements into dialogue as an ongoing journey. The exhibition does not resolve the tensions it presents, but holds them in suspension, reflecting a state of in-between that is at once geographical, emotional and artistic.

Artist:
Evgeniya Strygina

Curator:
Berfin Cicek

Address:
200 Battersea Park Rd
London
SW11 4ND

Private View:
5 May
6-9pm

Opening times:
6-7 May
12-7pm

Admission is free. RSVP is required for Private View on 5th May - link in bio!

15/04/2026

Next month… A solo exhibition by Evgeniya Strygina curated by Berfin Cicek.

here (not) there brings together two distinct yet interconnected phases of the artist’s practice. Earlier works focus on urban spaces and natural landscapes, often emptied of human presence, where attention is directed toward structure, atmosphere and the quiet language of form. In more recent works, the focus shifts toward people, memory and lived experience, reflecting an ongoing engagement with questions of belonging, displacement and identity.

At the centre of the exhibition is Home From Home, an evolving body of work developed over the past three years. Through photographic portraits, text, and archival materials, Strygina traces the experiences of immigration, exploring how the sense of home is reconstructed in unfamiliar environments. These works are not presented as fixed narratives, but as fragments of lived realities, shaped by distance, adaptation and emotional continuity.

Across the exhibition, space operates as both subject and condition. Landscapes and interiors no longer function solely as formal compositions, but as sites of transition where personal and collective histories intersect. Figures appear within these environments not as stable identities, but as presences negotiating between past and present, here and elsewhere.

Visually, the exhibition moves between clarity and ambiguity, combining more figurative photographic works with a conceptual framework that includes text, sequencing and archival traces. This layered approach resists singular interpretation, instead constructing a narrative that remains open and shifting.

here (not) there brings these elements into dialogue as an ongoing journey. The exhibition does not resolve the tensions it presents, but holds them in suspension, reflecting a state of in-between that is at once geographical, emotional and artistic.

Artist:
Evgeniya Strygina

Curator:
Berfin Cicek

Address:
200 Battersea Park Rd
London
SW11 4ND

Private View:
5 May
6-9pm

Opening times:
6-7 May
12-7pm

Admission is free. RSVP is required for Private View on 5th May - link in bio!

13/04/2026

✨ In 3 weeks… A solo exhibition by Evgeniya Strygina curated by Berfin Cicek.

here (not) there brings together two distinct yet interconnected phases of the artist’s practice. Earlier works focus on urban spaces and natural landscapes, often emptied of human presence, where attention is directed toward structure, atmosphere and the quiet language of form. In more recent works, the focus shifts toward people, memory and lived experience, reflecting an ongoing engagement with questions of belonging, displacement and identity.

At the centre of the exhibition is Home From Home, an evolving body of work developed over the past three years. Through photographic portraits, text, and archival materials, Strygina traces the experiences of immigration, exploring how the sense of home is reconstructed in unfamiliar environments. These works are not presented as fixed narratives, but as fragments of lived realities, shaped by distance, adaptation and emotional continuity.

Across the exhibition, space operates as both subject and condition. Landscapes and interiors no longer function solely as formal compositions, but as sites of transition where personal and collective histories intersect. Figures appear within these environments not as stable identities, but as presences negotiating between past and present, here and elsewhere.

Visually, the exhibition moves between clarity and ambiguity, combining more figurative photographic works with a conceptual framework that includes text, sequencing and archival traces. This layered approach resists singular interpretation, instead constructing a narrative that remains open and shifting.

here (not) there brings these elements into dialogue as an ongoing journey. The exhibition does not resolve the tensions it presents, but holds them in suspension, reflecting a state of in-between that is at once geographical, emotional and artistic.

Artist:
Evgeniya Strygina

Curator:
Berfin Cicek

Address:
200 Battersea Park Rd
London
SW11 4ND

Private View:
5 May
6-9pm

Opening times:
6-7 May
12-7pm

Admission is free. RSVP is required for Private View on 5th May - link in bio!

Fake Nature, 2026
Giclee Print
70 x 50cm

08/04/2026

⚪️ A solo exhibition by Evgeniya Strygina co-curated by Berfin Cicek.

here (not) there brings together two distinct yet interconnected phases of the artist’s practice. Earlier works focus on urban spaces and natural landscapes, often emptied of human presence, where attention is directed toward structure, atmosphere and the quiet language of form. In more recent works, the focus shifts toward people, memory and lived experience, reflecting an ongoing engagement with questions of belonging, displacement and identity.

At the centre of the exhibition is Home From Home, an evolving body of work developed over the past three years. Through photographic portraits, text, and archival materials, Strygina traces the experiences of immigration, exploring how the sense of home is reconstructed in unfamiliar environments. These works are not presented as fixed narratives, but as fragments of lived realities, shaped by distance, adaptation and emotional continuity.

Across the exhibition, space operates as both subject and condition. Landscapes and interiors no longer function solely as formal compositions, but as sites of transition where personal and collective histories intersect. Figures appear within these environments not as stable identities, but as presences negotiating between past and present, here and elsewhere.

Visually, the exhibition moves between clarity and ambiguity, combining more figurative photographic works with a conceptual framework that includes text, sequencing and archival traces. This layered approach resists singular interpretation, instead constructing a narrative that remains open and shifting.

here (not) there brings these elements into dialogue as an ongoing journey. The exhibition does not resolve the tensions it presents, but holds them in suspension, reflecting a state of in-between that is at once geographical, emotional and artistic.

Artist:
Evgeniya Strygina

Curator:
Berfin Cicek

Address:
200 Battersea Park Rd
London
SW11 4ND

Private View:
5 May
6-9pm

Opening times:
6-7 May
12-7pm

Admission is free. RSVP is required for Private View on 5th May - link in bio!

02/04/2026

Artist and founder of Cicek Gallery Berfin Cicek, will host a talk at the National Gallery.

The Art of Vulnerability: Intimacy, Solitude and the Body in Painting

Exploring how artists across centuries have expressed touch, longing and emotional exposure from the contemplative stillness of Zurbarán to contemporary gestures of self-soothing.

📍 Supporters’ House Salon, National Gallery
🗓 Friday 15 May 2026
⏰ 3–4pm
🎟 Available to House & Exhibition Members

A conversation on vulnerability, materiality and the emotional weight of human connection, concluding with an open discussion on tenderness and exposure in creativity today.

Open to members of TNG only - book your tickets from the link in bio!

01/04/2026

● Deep dive from screen to surface.

In this part of her practice, Evgeniya Strygina’s work moves through printing, cutting and framing. Each step is precise, quiet and intentional.

What begins as an image becomes an object.
Given weight, scale and presence.

Not just produced, but realised.

30/03/2026

⚪️ Inside Evgeniya Strygina’s world

Evgeniya Strygina’s work traces the quiet dialogue between landscape, architecture and human presence.

Moving between urban and natural environments, her images are composed with a careful precision, yet carry an underlying stillness that invites reflection. Structures become markers of time, and spaces begin to feel both familiar and distant.

There is a subtle tension in her work, between documentation and atmosphere, observation and interpretation. Each photograph holds more than what is immediately visible, asking us to consider how we inhabit the spaces around us.

Through a meticulous digital practice, Evgeniya captures not just place, but perception.

We’re proud to present an artist whose work sits at the intersection of structure and sensitivity.

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