Armory Show 2025
In this upcoming edition of the Armory Show 2025 we will be presenting a vibrant and captivating booth showcasing new works by Radenko Milak and Steffen Kern.
Interiors are not just spaces we inhabit, but mirrors of how we live and relate to one another.
The work of Radenko Milak and Steffen Kern is not simply about physical spaces but about the emotional and psychological layers those spaces carry. Each artist enters a space not just to show what is there, but to explore what those environments mean to the people who inhabit them and to those who observe them. Using historical images and scenes of everyday life, Milak creates interiors that feel distant and quiet, charged with a deep sense of stillness. His monochromatic watercolors transform grids of windows and corridors into silent stages of human existence, where light flickers and stories remain untold. The monumental scale of his compositions highlight both the density of modern life and its isolation, turning each window into a fragment of a larger, unknowable whole. Viewers observe from a distance, inherently part of what they see, yet detached from anything that unfolds. His paintings often point to the vastness of human ambition while simultaneously intensifying our sense of distance. In doing so, Milak blurs the boundary between public and private space, drawing attention to a central question of contemporary life: how do we inhabit a world so intimately connected yet profoundly divided?
Kern’s interiors, on the other hand, feel more detached from reality. His drawings are made entirely from memory, without references. Yet they look like photographs, using the visual codes we trust to reproduce what is real. Many of his scenes resemble familiar domestic settings, but they are filtered through the lens of imagination and media memory. These spaces feel both personal and anonymous. They question what is true and what we only think we remember, slipping away like a dream. In doing so, Kern brings us into spaces of doubt and reflection, where reality is no longer solid.
