About the artist
Aljoscha (born in 1974, Ukraine) is a contemporary artist, who explores visual possibilities of synthetic biology and the new aesthetics of biofuturism and bioethical abolitionism. Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.
● 2022-2023 Grant of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony and Goethe Institut in Dresden, Germany● 2020 Pollock-Krasner grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, USA● 2017 „Über die Umschwünge der himmlischen Kreise“, public installation project funded by Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Germany● 2012 Grant of Hybridartprojects (Buenos Aires, Argentina) in Mandrem, India● 2011 Grant of The University’s Museum of Contemporary Art (Mexico City), in Venice, Italy● 2011 Grant of Kunstgarten Graz, Austria● 2010-2011 Grant of Hybridartprojects in El Zonte, El Salvador● 2010 „bioism uprooting populus“, public installation project funded by Karin Abt-Straubinger Stiftung, German● 2009 Art prize „Schlosspark 2009“, Cologne, Germany● 2008 1st Prize in sculpture, XXXV Premio Bancaja, Valencia, Spain
Education:2006 – International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria (class of Shirin Neshat);2001-2002 – Art Academy Duesseldorf, Germany (class of Prof. Konrad Klapheck).
His works can be found in such museum collections as Tate Modern in London, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin, the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin, Ohio, The Getty Center in Los Angeles, the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki.
List of the exhibitions
SELECTED SOLO PROJECTS
2024 – "Monadology of Consciousness and Space", Lauffenmühle, Lauchringen, Germany
2024 – "Solidarity With Victims", Tribeca Synagogue, New York City, USA
2024 – "Deviations of Kindness", Sant'Angelo, Milan, Italy
2023 – "Paradise Hypothesis", Galerie Priska Pasquer, Paris, France
2023 – "Composing Bioethical Choices", Fondazione Made in Cloister, Naples, Italy
2022 – "Flüstern des Raums / Forming Divinity", Osthaus Museum and Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen, Germany
2022 – "Anti-war Intervention in Kyiv 2022", masc foundation, Vienna, Austria
2022 – "Stope insanity, seek for kindness!", Fondazione Sant'Elia, Palermo, Italy
2022 – "The Evolutionary Optimism", Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Germany
2021 – "Vivimos el mejor de los tiempos. Estamos comenzando a construir el Paraíso", Palacio de Santoña, Madrid, Spain
2020 – "Miraculous Draught", St. John the Divine, New York, USA
2020 – "Durchbruch des Seins in den unbegrenzten Freiraum der Möglichkeiten", Galerie Martina Kaiser, Cologne, Germany
2019 – "Bioethische Funktionslust", Galerie von Braunbehrens, Stuttgart, Germany
2019 – "Panspermia and Cosmic Ancestry", KWS & Galerie Susanne Neuerburg, Einbeck, Germany
2019 – "Geschwindigkeitsbeschleunigung der Evolution", Galerie Maximilian Hutz, Lustenau, Austria
2018 – "Peak Experience", Beck & Eggeling Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2017 – "Know Thyself", Donopoulos International Fine Arts, Mykonos, Greece
2017 – "The Gates of the Sun and the Land of Dreams", Museum Schloss Benrath, Düsseldorf, Germany
Paradise Engineering
Acrylic glassInstallationPrice on request