PLATO
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Vadim Pugin
The Walled Garden
June 4 – July 11, 2026
PLATO is excited to announce the opening of Vadim Pugin’s solo exhibition at PLATO, The Walled Garden, on Thursday, June 4, from 6–8 pm. The show will be on view through July 11.
In The Walled Garden, New York–based artist Vadim Pugin presents a new body of work exploring the contours of subjectivity in an era shaped by commodified attention and engineered desire.
The exhibition brings together ceramics, sound, video, and fabric installation within an environment the artist describes as Cyber Baroque: a logic of excess in which surveillance has learned to disguise itself as seduction. Ceramic mascarons — architectural masks historically embedded in Baroque facades — establish the exhibition’s spatial order, functioning as autonomous agents that guide the viewers’ movement while simultaneously returning their gaze.
