Alena Zhandarova is the Russian based artist exploring the interaction between space and human in it. She investigate the border between habitual and unfamiliar, using the visual storytelling as a tool of implementation of my inner philosophy.
She is working basically through portraits, where the person or herself perform as a ground for sculptures, which she can mold and create something new, find the answers and set the new ones.
She goes this way to release internal forces and wellsprings, because she believe that the universe in us is infinitely wise and knows this world better than we.
Education:
| 2011-2012 | Masters of Fine Art Photography, IED Madrid, Madrid, Spain |
| 2011 | International Summer School (Claudine Doury group) «Use reality to create your personal fiction series» |
Solo Exhibitions:
| 2018 | Cortona on the Move Photofestival, Cortona, Italy |
| 2012 | Aarhus Center for Contemporary Art, Aarhus, Denmark |
Selected group exhibitions:
| 2018 | Gallery 21 / Triennl of Photography, Hamburg, Germany Month of Photography Los Angeles Group Show, USA |
| 2017 | Photographing the Female, The Willow School, New Jersey, USA Kolga Tbilisi PhotoFestival, Tbilisi, Georgia Lumiere Brothers Gallery, Moscow, Russia FOCUS PhotoFestival «Photographing the Female» exhibition, Mumbai, India Kyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kyosato, Japan European Center of Arts, Hellerau Photography Awards Exhibition, Dresden, Germany |
| 2016 | Suwon PASA Festival, South Korea Metenkov’s House Museum of Photography, Ekaterinburg, Russia Kyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kyosato, Japan European Center of Arts, Hellerau Photography Awards Exhibition, Dresden, Germany |
| 2015 | Encontros da Imagem Photo Festival «Seeing is Believing», Braga, Portugal «She Loves me, She Loves me Not», Centre of Photography, Clermont-Ferrand, France |
| 2014 | Month of Photography in Norilsk, Russia Pingyao Photography Festival, China |
| 2013 | Encontros da Imagem Photo festival, Braga, Portugal Meyrin Cultural Center, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2012 | PhotoVisa Festival, Krasnodar, Russia Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna, Austria Copenhagen Photo Festival, Denmark Coexist gallery, Southend-on-sea, UK Backlight 2011 photo festival, Tampere art museum, Tampere, Finland Getty Images Gallery, London, England Phodar biennial, Pleven, Bulgaria ArteLaguna, Nappe area of the Arsenale, Venice, Italy The A.D Gallery, «Inner & outer landscape», USA |
| 2010 | «Young Russian Photography 2010 2/2. Time» Fotodepartament, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Gallery «KINO», Moscow, Russia Gallery «NIU», Barcelona, Spain Tashkentalle-2010, Fitfth International Tashkent Exhibition Photo Biennial Tashkent, Uzbekistan Gallery «Captains of Industry», Malbourn, Australia Gallery «Charnwood Arts», Lestershir, England |
Grants and scholarships:
| 2014 | Lucie Foundation Scholarship Finalist |
| 2013 | Lens Culture Student Photography Award Finalist |
| 2012 | PhotoVisa Festival Finalist, Krasnodar, Russia Honorable Mention of Emergentes DST 2012, Portugal Luceo Student Project Award winner, USA Nominated on Prix Pictet Award |
| 2011 | Finalist of ArteLaguna Prize, Venice, Italy Winner of «Inner & outer Landscape» International Juried Exhibition, North Caroline, USA Winner of IED Master of Fine Art Photography Scholarship, Madrid, Spain |