{"id":889331,"date":"2026-04-12T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/889331\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:00:23","slug":"down-the-rabbit-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/889331\/","title":{"rendered":"Down the Rabbit Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 30 artists gather in The Crypt Gallery\u2019s underground chambers for an immersive exhibition shaped by the afterlife of the pandemic and the legacy of Katya Kan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Down the Rabbit Hole Presented by Katya\u2019s Space CIC
17th April, 2026 \u2013 19th April, 2026
The Crypt Gallery
Under St Pancras New Church
Duke\u2019s Rd, Off Euston Rd
London WC1H 9AD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Down the Rabbit Hole<\/strong> <\/a>is a group exhibition<\/strong> presented by Katya\u2019s Space CIC<\/strong> at The Crypt Gallery<\/strong> in London, unfolding through the venue\u2019s vaulted underground chambers and maze-like tunnels. Bringing together more than 30 artists from London and abroad, the exhibition considers the psychological and emotional terrain shaped by the Covid-19 era, with works that address solitude, dislocation and transformation.<\/p>\n

At its heart is the work of Katya Kan (1987\u20132023)<\/strong>, represented by the watercolour Spacetime, an image of Iceland\u2019s Diamond Cave pierced by her recurring bunny alter ego. The painting is playful, uncanny and quietly disquieting. Its rabbit figure peers out from a crystalline passage stretching towards infinity, turning the cave into a metaphor for confinement, where the light at the far end suggests not escape but the suspended stillness of time itself. Through this exhibition, Katya\u2019s Space continues its commitment to the legacy of the late artist by supporting the next generation of artists and filmmakers.<\/p>\n

\"DownAnanda Kuhn, Lockdown Series Tornado, 2020,
Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas
160x160cm
Courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n

Curated by Amie Conway with Galia Velimukhametova, Director of Katya\u2019s Space CIC, Down the Rabbit Hole spans a wide range of media, including site-specific immersive installation, painting, works on paper, photography, sculpture, film, music and performance. The setting is integral to the experience. Visitors move through the exhibition with a mix of curiosity and unease, guided at the entrance by artist Jig Cochrane\u2019s JIGANTICS, a series of giant illuminated flower sculptures that usher audiences into the subterranean world below.<\/p>\n

The exhibiting artists include Aliki Karveli (Greece, London), Ananda Kuhn (Brazil, Italy), Aurelie Freoua (France, London), Cate Lis, Ed Mirza, Ela Hsu, Gabrielle Hawkins, Haohao Zhang (China), Isabel Paget, Lauren Baker (London), Leila Anderson (Kazakhstan), Leyla Ustenkaya (Turkey, Bosnia, France), Maham Suhail, Marcia Scott, Marina Smith \/ Diana Anastasia, mORGANICo, Roza Horowitz (Holland), Sophi Gardner, Vaidehi Bhargava and Zorica Purlija (Montenegro, Australia). Artworks will be available for sale, with all profits going directly to the artists and to future programming.<\/p>\n

Quoting Lewis Carroll\u2019s Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland: \u201cIt\u2019s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then,\u201d the exhibition frames its descent as both physical and psychological. The title gestures towards the unknown while asking how the pandemic continues to shape our sense of time, isolation and social connection. Across immersive installations, light sculpture, site-specific projection and other forms, the exhibition traces thresholds, mythic passageways, and the inner landscapes of memory and change.<\/p>\n

See also<\/p>\n

\"Allison<\/a><\/p>\n

\"DownKatya Kan, Spacetime, 2020,
watercolour on paper, 41.5 x 58 cm<\/p>\n

Among the notable works are Gianinna Delpino\u2019s dream-like paintings on migration and origin; Yuliya V Krylova\u2019s Butoh-inspired performance and painting, which examine creativity as a form of healing; Iona Scott\u2019s plankton-inspired light sculptures, attuned to what is almost imperceptible; Thomas Robertson-Johnson\u2019s M\u00f6bius hourglass structure, a meditation on cyclical time; Aurelie Freoua\u2019s mixed-media reflections on memory; Ananda Kuhn\u2019s surreal interior-geological landscapes; and Lauren Baker\u2019s installation Five Regrets \u2013 Five Truths, which fills a crypt chamber with existential and cosmic reflection.<\/p>\n

Human beings have always confronted thresholds they cannot fully see beyond. The pandemic was one such rupture, interrupting ordinary life and prompting new forms of introspection, myth-making and symbolic storytelling. Down the Rabbit Hole gives that shared experience a visual language, inviting visitors into an underworld of reflection, creativity and transformation.<\/p>\n

Down the Rabbit Hole Presented by Katya\u2019s Space CIC opens on the 17th of April, 2026 until the 19th of April, 2026 at The Crypt Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n

Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a92026 The Crypt Gallery <\/p>\n

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