About
Artist Statment
Alena perceives the world as a corresponding living organism, subtly feeling the invisible between all creatures, events, the past and what has not happened yet. The themes of the illusiveness of what is happening, its multilayeredness and cyclicality are the reference point of her artistic practice.
Exploring the forms and structure of the interaction between internal and outer, Alena makes an attempt to show and streamline their relationship visually. Absurdity and the game are the main methods she uses for translation from the cosmic (invisible) to the human (manifested) in an attempt to find answers to the question «How to remember the ordinary day magic, being absorbed in routine and everyday life.
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Education:
| 2012 | MFA in Photogarphy, Europian Institute of Design, IED Madrid, Spain |
Solo Exhibitions:
| 2021 | Hidden Motherhood, PhEST, International Photography and Art Festival, Monopoli, Italy |
| 2020 | Puree with a taste of Triangles, Fotografika Gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia (online tour) |
| 2018 | Puree with a taste of Triangles, Cortona on the Move Photofestival, Cortona, Italy |
| 2012 | Cornflower Tea and Concealing Chocolate, Aarhus Center for Contemporary Art, Aarhus, Denmark |
Selected group exhibitions:
| 2023 | “Puree with a taste of Triangles”, Photo Gallery in the Graz town hall, Austria |
| 2021 | “Young Portfolio Acquisitions”, Kyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kyosato, Japan |
| 2020 | Hidden Mothehood, Singapore International Photography Festival (5 November – 30 January 2020) |
| 2018 | Gallery 21 / Triennal of Photography, Hamburg, Germany Puree with a taste of Triangles, Month of Photography Los Angeles Group Show, USA |
| 2017 | The City of Brides, Photographing the Female, The Willow School, New Jersey, USA The City of Brides, Kolga Tbilisi PhotoFestival, Tbilisi, Georgia The City of Brides, Lumiere Brothers Gallery, Moscow, Russia The City of Brides, FOCUS PhotoFestival «Photographing the Female» exhibition, Mumbai, India Kyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kyosato, Japan Puree with a taste of Triangles, European Center of Arts, Hellerau Photography Awards Exhibition, Dresden, Germany |
| 2016 | The City of Brides, Suwon PASA Festival, South Korea The City of Brides, Metenkov’s House Museum of Photography, Ekaterinburg, Russia Kyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kyosato, Japan The City of Brides, European Center of Arts, Hellerau Photography Awards Exhibition, Dresden, Germany |
| 2015 | Puree with a taste of Triangles, Encontros da Imagem Photo Festival «Seeing is Believing», Braga, Portugal The City of Brides, «She Loves me, She Loves me Not», Centre of Photography, Clermont-Ferrand, France |
| 2014 | The City of Brides, Month of Photography in Norilsk, Russia The City of Brides, Pingyao Photography Festival, China |
| 2013 | The City of Brides, Encontros da Imagem Photo festival, Braga, Portugal Cornflower Tea and Concealing Chocolate, Meyrin Cultural Center, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2012 | The City of Brides, PhotoVisa Festival, Krasnodar, Russia Cornflower Tea and Concealing Chocolate, Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna, Austria Copenhagen Photo Festival, Denmark Coexist gallery, Southend-on-sea, UK Cornflower Tea and Concealing Chocolate, 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 | Cornflower Tea and Concealing Chocolate, «Young Russian Photography 2010 2/2. Time» Fotodepartament, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Gallery «KINO», Moscow, Russia Gallery «NIU», Barcelona, Spain Cornflower Tea and Concealing Chocolate, Tashkentalle-2010, Fitfth International Tashkent Exhibition Photo Biennial Tashkent, Uzbekistan Gallery «Captains of Industry», Melbourn, Australia Gallery «Charnwood Arts», Lestershir, England |
Grants and scholarships:
| 2020 | Zeiss Fotography Awards Finalist |
| 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 |
Books:
2014 Go there I don’t know where, Bring that I don’t know what, Selfpublished handmade book, edition of 25
2013 The City of Brides, Selfpublished Handmade book, edition of 150
Collections:
Kyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kyosato, Japan
Meyrin Cultural Center, Geneva, Switzerland
Ptivate collections
Publications:
Forbes Russia, Marie Claire France, GUP magazine, Photonews, LensCulture, L’Oeil de la Photographie, Musee Magazine, Mulieris magazine, Life magazine China, EEP Berlin, NIDO, Annabelle, Blink magazine, Zoom
Texts / Interviews
Interview by Jing Zhao, Musee magazine, 2019 [EN]
Interview by Maya Hristova «Listen to the Space», EEP Berlin 2019 [EN]
Interview by Marika Krystman, Ladnebebe.pl 2019 [PL]
Text by Helena Falabino, Escaping death: on ritual and photography, GUP magazine, 2017 [EN]
Interview by Olga Osipova, Bird in Flight, 2015 [EN] [RU]