Aljoscha

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.