Anna Bochkova - Just Around the Cosmos Kunstraum SUPER, Vienna Curated by Bianca Pedrina 01.09. – 16.09.2022 In her work specially produced for Kunstraum SUPER, Anna Bochkova takes us on a journey to her childhood in 1990s Russia, spent among decaying industrial ruins, faded steppe landscapes, and sky-high prefabricated buildings. There, where the streets bear the names of cosmonauts and the playground consists of a slide in the shape of a rocket, Bochkova takes up the utopian ideas of the Cosmist philosophy of the 1920s, of which the central claim being that mankind, as a cosmic factor, bears responsibility for the entire universe. Bochkova shares with us her views on floating cities, castles in the air, and man's constant desire to imagine a better world. Text by Bianca Pedrina