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Anna Mauer

@pillepop

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Curator • Cultural producer
Founder @intellectual_factory
Bratislava-based, often elsewhere
from Monaco to Moksha✨

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a year ago

Иногда мне кажется, что за всеми моими постами про искусство, философию, Индию и поиски смысла здесь можно совершенно забыть об одной довольно большой части моей жизни :)

Luxury travel & concierge✨

А между тем последние недели я снова почти полностью живу в путешествиях — виллы, яхты, сложные перелёты, отели, маршруты, impossible requests — и вдруг поняла, что давно здесь об этом не говорила.

А ведь это то, чем я профессионально занимаюсь уже больше 15 лет.

За эти годы у меня появилась, пожалуй, самая ценная вещь в этой индустрии — своя сеть людей по всему миру. От отелей и вилл до локальных консьержей, яхт, бизнес авиации и тех самых людей, которым можно написать: «Нам нужно вот это. Послезавтра. И желательно невозможное».

И да — благодаря прямым контактам и профессиональным travel-системам я часто могу предложить очень хорошие rates, preferred conditions, upgrades, complimentary benefits и варианты, которых просто нет в обычном онлайн-поиске.

Поэтому просто хочу напомнить:

если вам нужно организовать путешествие — от одного отеля или перелёта до сложного маршрута под ключ — you can always ask me🧚‍♀️

P.S на фото - совершенно чудесное место @ibitiprojeto в Бразилии! taken in Ibiti Projeto by @pillepop

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2 months ago

Несколько лет назад я стояла перед картинами Рериха в Национальном художественном музее в Риге и рыдала. Не знаю почему - просто хлынуло, будто я уже была там, среди этих гор.

Индии тогда в моей жизни не было вообще.

В прошлом году я впервые прилетела в Мумбаи. И в первые же часы почувствовала то, что сложно объяснить рационально - ощущение, что я вернулась домой.

С тех пор я не могу перестать думать о Гималаях. О тех самых местах, которые писал Рерих - Кедарнат, Бадринат, истоки священных рек. Местах, где, как говорят, тонка грань между земным и небесным.

Этой осенью я еду в паломничество по Чар-дхаму - четырём самым священным местам индуизма в сердце Гималаев. Это не туристическая поездка. Это дорога к тем самым горам, которые когда-то заставили меня плакать, даже не зная, куда я плачу.

Если внутри вас тоже что-то откликается на эти слова - если Индия, горы или духовный путь давно стучатся в вашу жизнь - приглашаю вас присоединиться к этому паломничеству. На все вопросы отвечу в директ ✨ by @pillepop

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3 months ago

100+ applications. 50 spots.

I got one of them — and I was the only foreigner in the room.

Camp Bratislava is a four-day festival for people who care about this city - organized by Team Bratislava @team.bratislava and the office of Mayor Matúš Vallo @matus.vallo . The idea is simple and powerful: bring together 50 citizens to discuss the future of Bratislava, exchange ideas, and figure out what each of us can actually do. This year was the fifth edition.

Camp Bratislava 2026 just ended, and I’m still processing.

Here’s what happened:

→ Day one: 50 strangers became something else entirely. The networking format was so well designed that within hours, the room had shifted. You could feel it.

→ The speakers: Access to people who actually shape this city. Urban thinkers, culture makers, decision makers. What I’d call a quiet introduction to Bratislava’s inner circle.

→ The young people: This is what genuinely shook me. So many voices that think differently, speak freely, and actually mean it. I found my first collaborators for Bratislava as a Living Canvas right here.

→ The culture conversation: Felt like sunlight. Confirmed everything I believe - that art makes us sharper, softer, more awake. Worth fighting for, always.

A huge thank you to the Camp Bratislava team - the organisation was exceptional, from the very first moment 💥

But the realest moment wasn’t on any agenda.

At some point I felt it - what the Japanese philosopher Hiroki Azuma calls being the Other. The ‘tourist’. The one who doesn’t quite belong. First instinct: disappear.

Instead I stayed. Introduced myself. Talked about the project. And something shifted - because the Other is also the one people remember. Precisely because they’re different.

Bratislava as a Living Canvas - it’s happening.

Starting tomorrow, I go to work on it ✨

P.S. Thank you @marekjancuch for your incredible vision — these photos are something else.

#PollyCurates
#TheBridges
#CampBratislava
#BratislavaAsALivingCanvas taken in Bratislava, Slovakia by @pillepop

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4 months ago

For a while now, I’ve been showing up here mostly as atmosphere. Mood, place, texture, feeling.

And recently I asked a simple question - describe me in three words - and got back the most generous mirror. Creative. Inspiring. Deep. Atmospheric.

Which is lovely. And also: not the whole picture.

I think I confused quiet work with invisible work. They’re not the same.

So this is me, starting to show both sides. The feeling and the doing. The atmosphere and the result.
More soon.

And thank you, genuinely, to everyone who held up that mirror 💕
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#FromMonacoToMoksha
#PollyCurates
#PollyBuildsBridges by @pillepop

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5 months ago

There are places where a city forgets on purpose.
And places where memory refuses to disappear.

Under the concrete of the SNP bridge in Bratislava once stood the Jewish quarter.
Streets, homes, voices, prayers.
And the Neolog Synagogue — erased in the name of modernity, traffic, progress.

I kept thinking about what it means to remember a place that no longer exists.

Not to reconstruct it.
Not to imitate it.
But to let its ghost become visible again.

This work is inspired by a 19th century Parochet — the sacred curtain that veils the Torah inside a synagogue.
A threshold.
A separation between worlds.
A passage from the visible to the invisible.

Here, the Parochet does not hang inside a synagogue anymore.
It appears like a fading imprint on concrete —
as if the city itself is trying to remember what was taken from it.

Like an archaeological trace.
A textile fossil.
A shadow of prayer left inside the architecture of modernism.

And maybe this is what memory really is:
not a monument,
but a surface through which the past still quietly breathes.

My shadow remained in the image intentionally.
Because every act of remembrance is also a passage.
Between absence and presence.
Between the living and those erased from the map.
Between the city that was and the city that stands here now.

Bratislava, under the SNP bridge.
A curtain reopening.

#FromMonacoToMoksha
#PollyCurates
#PollyBuildsBridges

#BeforeTheBridges
#MostSNP taken in Most SNP, Bratislava by @pillepop

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5 months ago

Wine, for courage. A folder, for the bridge.

Ten minutes before walking in — the project sitting next to my glass like it knew tonight was the night.
I gave it to the Mayor, in the end. Briefly, between conversations, the way most real things happen.

Some crossings are announced. Some just happen.
✨

#FromMonacoToMoksha
#PollyCurates
#PollyBuildsBridges

#TheBridges
#MostSNP by @pillepop

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5 months ago

For a long time I was walking toward.
Now I am here. A bridge above me, my shadow drawn on its wall as if it had been waiting.
Bratislava.
The Danube.
A morning that is not in a hurry.
I’ve been quiet for a while — gathering, listening, crossing. Something is beginning here, between two shores I have long held together.
Walk with me, if you’d like.

#FromMonacoToMoksha
#PollyCurates
#PeggyGuggenheim2_0

#TheBridges
#PollyBuildsBridges taken in Most SNP, Bratislava by @pillepop

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5 months ago

#BiennaleUnfiltered

Lionel Wendt.

Timeless.
Alive.
Bodies as landscapes.
Light as touch.

A century later —
still breathing.

#KochiMuzirisBiennale
#KMB2025
#BiennaleUnfiltered
#LionelWendt
#PhotographyAsArt
#ModernistPhotography
#TimelessBodies
#LightAndForm
#ArchiveAlive

#PollyCurates
#PeggyGuggenheim2_0
#FromMonacoToMoksha taken in Aspinwall, Fort Kochi by @pillepop

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10 months ago

#BiennaleUnfiltered

Today, this is the most powerful work for me.

Indelible Black Marks (2022–ongoing) by Kulpreet Singh.
@kulpreet_singh

I watched this film again and again —
and couldn’t look away.
Each time it restarted, it entered me once more, deeper.

In this work, Singh speaks about land, agriculture, and violence —
about how policies, technology, and pressure erase lives quietly,
through stubble burning, poisoned air, exhausted soil, and silenced bodies.

But what I see goes further.

I see humanity itself —
destroying almost invisibly,
then trying, again and again, to fix what has been done.

And yet, a price is always paid.

This work doesn’t accuse.
It witnesses.

And that’s exactly why it stays.

#KochiMuzirisBiennale
#KMB2025
#BiennaleUnfiltered
#KulpreetSingh
#IndelibleBlackMarks
#VideoArt
#PoliticalArt
#ArtAsWitness
#LandAndLabour
#EnvironmentalMemory
#HumanCost
#ArtAndResponsibility

#PollyCurates
#PeggyGuggenheim2_0
#FromMonacoToMoksha taken in Kochi-Muziris Biennale by @pillepop

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10 months ago

Escape from KMB2025 → Munnar
🧚‍♀️

Fresh air — finally.
Green in every direction.
Endless tea plantations, silence, clouds.

Time stretches.
Everything softens.

I could dissolve here
and stay forever —
as energy✨

#PollyCurates
#PeggyGuggenheim2_0
#FromMonacoToMoksha taken in Munnar by @pillepop

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10 months ago

#BiennaleUnfiltered

Random.
People ❤️

#KochiMuzirisBiennale
#KMB2025

#PollyCurates
#PeggyGuggenheim2_0
#FromMonacoToMoksha taken in Fort Kochi by @pillepop

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10 months ago