For the Nest section of Untitled Art Fair at Miami Beach, Bahnhof presents a Lisbon- and New York–based artist, Kuril Chto (b. 1989, Russia). Kuril works at the intersection of conceptual rigor and visual directness.

Buckets — a series of mixed-media paintings exploring the aesthetics of catastrophe through excavators being both destructive and banal machines. As the curator Annie Armstrong observed, this work “emphasizes the overwhelming presence of these machines in war-torn landscapes, and also their banality as a common vehicle seen on your average streetblock, acting, at most, as a nuisance to passersby.” In 2024, Buckets was presented as a visual essay in Umbigo magazine, extending its reception into critical publishing.

Lilies — formal flowers often associated with both celebrations and farewells. Bold and theatrical, these lilies feel almost armored—what the artist calls “flowers on steroids.”


Vases is a ceramic series that reimagines Ancient Greek vessels by covering them with contemporary military pixel camouflage. These objects—traditionally linked to beauty, storytelling, and democratic ideals—are visually disrupted, as if they’ve been hidden by war or absorbed into its visual code. This fictional gesture transforms the vase into both an artifact of culture and a survivor of conflict.

By imagining this unlikely collision between military camouflage and classical form — between a decorative household object and the aesthetics of warfare — the artist invites viewers to rethink their relationship with the realities they inhabit and the values they support, whether passively or actively.