In Rimma Arslanov's dream-like pictorial worlds, the boundaries between painting, sculpture, architecture and applied art are mutually dissolving. Influences from oriental, Muslim and Soviet culture are integrated into the artist's contemporary way of working and thus combined to create new worlds. Although space and perspective are always recognizable, there is hardly any classification or transfer to reality.     

Our exhibition the dream of armor presents works from three series that initially show no connection in terms of content, but nevertheless have a common conceptual origin. What unites Arslanov's works is the exploration of apparent opposites such as hardness/softness, sensitivity/violence or beauty/ugliness, which makes it difficult to draw clear boundaries. (quoted from Julia Reich, 2022)     

Rimma Arslanov, born 1978 in Tajikistan, lives and works in Düsseldorf, studied in Tashkent and Tel Aviv as well as postgraduately at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. She is the winner of the KHM Prize for Women Artists 2022.