Transient Curated is pleased to present two works from The Wild Within series by Ryan Koopmans and Alice Wexell. Deliver the Message and Ignite are available by inquiry, explore the works below.
“The Wild Within explores the evolving relationship between nature and architecture. We’re fascinated by how the built environment transforms over time and how nature inevitably reclaims what we once constructed.”
Deliver the Message
Deliver the Message (2025)
Lower Silesia, Poland (formerly Eckersdorf, Germany)
In this artwork from The Wild Within, the once-grand Entrance Hall of Bożków Palace (Schloss Eckersdorf) is reimagined as a place where nature has quietly returned to reclaim the remains of human ambition.
Built in the 16th century and reshaped through the 18th and 19th centuries, the palace long stood as a symbol of aristocratic refinement in Prussian Silesia, home to the noble von Magnis family whose halls once echoed with music, conversation, and candlelight. Within the entrance hall, memories of that era linger in the balustraded gallery, stucco garlands, and gilded scrolls beneath a vaulted ceiling that once shimmered above arriving guests.
Following the Second World War, the region’s German inhabitants were expelled, and Bożków, now within Poland’s borders, was repurposed and eventually abandoned. Decades of silence left the palace in a state of quiet disrepair.
During the creation of this piece, Koopmans & Wexell gained rare access to the site after months of research and exploration across the Silesian borderlands. Venturing through overgrown fields and crumbling corridors, they documented this decaying structure as light filtered through broken shutters and water creeped across the marble floors. These photographs became the foundation for the artwork’s digital transformation, where architecture and nature merge in an imagined renewal.
In this reawakening, the hall becomes more than a ruin. It becomes a living archive of memory, where history and biology converge. Ornamental flora blooms among fading stucco, as if time itself had taken root.
Through this dialogue between nature and civilization, The Wild Within reflects on impermanence, renewal, and the quiet persistence of the natural world, a world that, in time, ultimately reclaims all that humanity leaves behind.
Ignite
Ignite Genoa, Italy, 2025
Set within the historic district of Albaro in Genoa,
Ignite reflects the enduring metamorphosis of a structure that has shifted through faith, leisure, and resilience.
Once a medieval place of worship, it was later transformed into a neoclassical summer residence and reimagined around 1900 with painted frescoes and ornate detailing.
Damaged by war and later converted into a healthcare facility, its walls have absorbed cycles of devotion, refinement, destruction, and renewal.
In the artwork, these layered histories resurface through the quiet encroachment of nature, where time, architecture, and memory ignite in a single vision of transformation, caught in an infinite loop of growth and decay.
The release of Deliver the Message and Ignite coincides with Koopmans and Wexell's solo exhibition at Leila Heller Gallery in Dubai, UAE. Spanning locations from Azerbaijani sanatoriums and Turkish temples to Lebanese villas and Emirati palaces, each work in the exhibition preserves fragments of cultural memory while envisioning nature’s enduring resilience. Many of the depicted structures have since deteriorated or vanished, making the series both a poetic act of preservation and reconstruction.
“We want each image to feel suspended between reality and imagination, a moment where light drifts across aging surfaces and time itself seems to pause.”
About the Artists
Ryan Koopmans (b. 1986) & Alice Wexell (b. 1992) are Stockholm-based artists whose collaborative practice explores the evolving dialogue between architecture, nature, and time. Working together for the past 15 years and having lived in cities such as New York, London, and Amsterdam, they create captivating artworks that merge photography, motion, and digital sculpture to reimagine the world’s built environments as living, transformative, and imaginative spaces.
Please inquire for more information on the artworks and pricing.
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