Aljoscha
The work was exhibited at the Garden of Dreams exhibition in 2024 at the M17
The installation of Aljoscha offers transcendental immersion in the artist’s translucent and delicately coloured synthetic organic forms, inviting the audience to reflect on the phylogenetic origins of human eudaimonia and upcoming bioethics. The artist seeks to elevate humanity, trapped in the harsh uncertainties of the genetic lottery, to a state of deviative progress through the ongoing pursuit of paradise engineering.
Aljoscha believes, that bioism, which he personally invented and based his oeuvre on, is the revelation of a new era in bioethics, will redefine the ethical boundaries, enforce universal empathy, and actively work towards a future where suffering is minimized, and the relationship with the biological world is characterized by consciousness and compassion. The artist’s bioism is an attempt to create art based on vitality, multiplicity and complexity.
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, Germany
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).
Over the past three years, he held scores of solo exhibitions, his works were showcased at TEFAF art fairs in New York and Maastricht. In 2020, the artist received a grant from the Pollock- Krasner Foundation and most recently, in 2022, from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony and Goethe Institut in Dresden, Germany.
He is the recipient of Perron-Kunstpeis, Wilhelm-Morgner-Preis, winner of the award given by Fundacion Bancaja in Valencia, and many others.
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.
