Save Hamlet? Pop-Up Mask Exhibition & Performative Experience with the art by Rina-Green Noodle
Here participants enter Shakespeare’s tragic world through sculptural masks, text and role-based interaction. Built around a growing cast of handmade objects, the event invites each group to try rewriting the ending — only to discover how strongly the structure of the tragedy holds.
Hamlet Mask, from the series Save Hamlet, 2026,27 × 22 × 13 cm,Rughooking on burlap
Laertes Mask, from the series Save Hamlet, 2026
23 × 20 × 12 cm, Rughooking on burlap
Queen Mask, from the series Save Hamlet, 2026
24 × 21 × 11 cm, Rughooking on burlap
Ophelia Mask, from the series Save Hamlet, 2026
23 × 25 × 15 cm, Rughooking on burlap
Horatio Mask, from the series Save Hamlet, 2026
19 × 21 × 11 cm, Rughooking on burlap
Save Hamlet? is a pop-up exhibition and performative format built around a growing set of sculptural masks and short text-based interaction inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
At its core is a cast of volumetric handmade masks by Rina-Green Noodle, presented as an installation of objects that can be displayed on walls, placed on horizontal surfaces or arranged on a hanging structure like a character set waiting to be activated. The masks function both as an exhibition and as a performative tool: they are not designed for long wear, but for short entry into a role, a gesture, a scene, a photograph or a spoken line.
The format begins with a short introduction to the dramatic arc of Hamlet, guided by an actor who leads the group into the logic of the story and toward its final point. From there, participants are invited to do what audiences often do silently: try to rewrite the ending, save the protagonist or shift the outcome. Each participant chooses a mask as a sign of character and responds through a short scene, dialogue, gesture or performative intervention.
What unfolds is not a theatre workshop in the conventional sense, but a structured encounter with role, text and inevitability. As the session develops, it becomes clear that freedom here remains limited: each attempt to rescue Hamlet opens another version of the same tragic structure. The format turns this tension into the core of the experience, making the event at once playful, literary and emotionally sharp.
The installation includes 8 masks and can be further expanded with additional characters. The format works both as a standalone artistic event and as an embedded cultural episode within a corporate evening, institutional program or curated group gathering.
A full selection of other works by Rina-Green Noodle may be available upon request, while the mask set itself remains a complete performative ensemble and is not offered as individual pieces after the event.
Irina Sinichkina (Rina-Green Noodle, b. 1970, Moscow) is an internationally presented artist working with rug hooking as a painterly and sculptural medium. Using worn clothing, household textiles and fabrics marked by closeness to the body, she transforms materials that have lost their everyday function into dense, tactile works shaped by memory, biography and presence. Her practice brings together personal history, corporeality, domestic mythology and the afterlife of , turning textile surfaces into carriers of mood, narrative and accumulated experience. Having moved from documentary scriptwriting into visual art, she developed a language in which fragments of lived material culture become the basis for works that are at once intimate, ironic and materially charged, and that have been shown in exhibitions and projects in Russia and internationally.
King Mask, from the series Save Hamlet, 2026, 24 × 24 × 10 cm, Rughooking on burlap
What is included
- curatorial concept and event structure
- pop-up exhibition of sculptural masks with art by Rina-Green Noodle
- current set of 8 masks, with expanding cast structure
- delivery within Berlin
- installation and deinstallation
- spatial arrangement on walls, surfaces or hanging display
- performative session led by an actor
- guided introduction to the narrative structure of Hamlet
- interactive role-based group format with masks and text
- on-site coordination during the event
Translator support can be added if required. Transport outside Berlin and special installation requirements may involve additional costs.
Transport outside Berlin and special installation requirements may involve additional costs.
DETAILS
Location: Berlin
Transport: additional costs may apply
Installation: approx. 3 hours
Deinstallation: approx. 1 hour
Booking notice: 10–14 days
Languages: English | German with translator if required
Group size: 10–20 participants
Duration: approx. 3 hours
Mask set: 8 masks
PRICING
Save Hamlet? performative format:
10–12 participants: from 1,400 €
13–16 participants: from 1,700 €
17–20 participants: from 2,000 €