Aljoscha
1974 born in Lazova, eastern Ukraine
2001-2002 auditor at Art Academy Duesseldorf, Germany (class of Prof. Konrad Klapheck)
2006 International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria (class of Shirin Neshat)
2008 I Prize in sculpture, XXXV Premio Bancaja, Valencia, Spain
2009 Art prize „Schlosspark 2009″, Cologne, Germany
2010 „bioism uprooting populus”, public installation project funded by Karin AbtStraubinger Stiftung, Germany
2010-2011 Grant of Hybridartprojects in El Zonte, El Salvador
2011 Grant of Kunstgarten Graz, Austria
2011 Grant of The University’s Museum of Contemporary Art (Mexico City), in Venice, Italy
2012 Grant of Hybridartprojects (Buenos Aires, Argentina) in Mandrem, India
2017 „Über die Umschwünge der himmlischen Kreise”, public installation project funded by Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Germany
2020 Pollock-Krasner grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, USA
2022 Grant of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony and Goethe Institut in Dresden, Germany

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024 Phylogenetic Utopias – Bioism Engineering of the Ethical Bliss, TEFAF, New York, USA
2024 Monadology of Consciousness and Space, Lauffenmühle, Lauchringen, Germany
2024 Deviations of Kindness, Sant’Angelo, Milan, Italy
2024 Schwebend im Äther des Unwirklichen, Dreieinigkeitskirche, Eschweiler, Germany
2023 Composing Bioethical Choices, Dreieinigkeitskirche, Munich, Germany
2023 Blooming Skin of Brain Paradise, Villa Altieri, Rome, Italy
2023 Bioism is an epiphany of new bioethics II, Times Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2023 Aljoscha, Paradise Hypothesis, PRISKA PASQUER PARIS, Paris, France
2022 “Füstern des Raums / Forming Divinity”, Osthaus Museum and Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen, Germany
2022 “Our world has changed abruptly”, Goethe Institut, Windhoek, Namibia
2022 “Invincible Happiness Not Just For Humans, But For All Sentient Life”, Beck & Eggeling Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
2022 “Bioethische Abweichung als Grundprinzip der Paradiesgestaltung”, Johanneskirche, Düsseldorf, Germany
2022 “Anti-war Intervention in Kiew 2022”, masc foundation, Vienna, Austria “
2022 Wesen für Frieden und Freiheit”, Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen, Germany
2022 “Stope insanity, seek for kindness!”, Fondazione Sant’Elia, Palermo, Italy
2022 “The Evolutionary Optimism”, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Germany
2022 “Reinvigorated, Rejuvenated”, Katharinenkirche, Burg Bentheim in cooperation with gopea-kunstraum, Bad Bentheim, Germany
2022 “Personal universe functions as a fundamental consciousness rather than a cosmic mess of discrete parts”, Dommuseum Hildesheim, Germany
2021 “Vivimos el mejor de los tiempos. Estamos comenzando a construir el Paraíso”, Palacio de Santoña, Madrid, Spain
2021 “¿Puedo alimentar a los monos de Gibraltar?”, Espacio Sin Título de Cano Estudio, Madrid, Spain
2020-2021 “Miraculous Draught”, St. John the Divine, New York, USA
2020 “Paradise Engineering Is an Epiphany of New Bioethics”, MZKM at LAGA 2020, Kamp-Lintfort, Germany
2020 “Durchbruch des Seins in den unbegrenzten Freiraum der Möglichkeiten”, Galerie Martina Kaiser, Cologne, Germany
2019 “Bioethische Funktionslust”, Galerie von Braunbehrens, Stuttgart, Germany
2019 “Bioethical Aberrations”, Städtische Galerie Sohle 1, Bergkamen, Germany
2019 “Our philosophy determined by biological information processing principles”, Marienkirche, Ortenberg, Germany
2019 “Panspermia and Cosmic Ancestry”, KWS and Galerie Susanne Neuerburg, Einbeck, Germany
2019 “Geschwindigkeitsbeschleunigung der Evolution”, Galerie Maximilian Hutz, Lustenau, Austria
2019 “Alterocentric Eudaimonia”, Kunststation St. Peter, Cologne, Germany “Urpflanze”, Goethe-Museum Düsseldorf, Germany
2019 “Modelle der nie dagewesenen Arten”, Kunstverein Paderborn, Germany
2018 “Peak Experience”, Beck & Eggeling Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2018 “Panspermia”, Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2018 “So long as the mind keeps silent in the motionless world of its hopes, everything is reflected and arranged in the unity of its nostalgia. But with its first move this world cracks and tumbles: an infinite number of shimmering fragments is offered to the understanding”, Futuro Gallery with Anna Nova Gallery, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia
2017 “A Biology of Happiness”, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria
2017 “The Hedonotropic Force”, Galerie Susanne Neuerburg, Germany
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
2017 “The Gates of the Sun and The Land of Dreams”, Beck & Eggeling Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
2017 “A Notion of Cosmic Teleology”, Sala Santa Rita, Rome, Italy
2017 “Early Earth Was Purple”, Ural Vision Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2016 “Iconoclasm and Bioism”, Julia Ritterskamp, Düsseldorf, Germany
2016 “Auratic Objects”, Donopoulos International Fine Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece
2016 “From Homo Faber to Homo Creator”, Gallery Martina Kaiser, Cologne, Germany
2016 “Lotophagie”, Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2016 “Archaeen”, Gallery Martina Kaiser, Cologne, Germany “Bioethics”, Gallery Y, Minsk, Belarus
2015 “Paradise Engineering”, Flora, Cologne, Germany
2015 “Hadaikum”, Gallery Martina Kaiser, Cologne, Germany
2015 “Animism and Bioism”, National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria
2015 “Funiculus umbilicalis”, St. Petri, Dortmund, Germany
2015 “Synthetic | Elysium”, Daab Verlag, Cologne, Germany
2014 “Bioism”, Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2014 “Lotuseffekt”, Goethe Institut, Sofia, Bulgaria
2013 “We love you stars. May you adore us”, Galerie Claudia Junig, Cologne, Germany
2013 “Der ca. 20 Lichtjahre große Nebel enthält Staubsäulen, die bis zu 9,5 Lichtjahre lang sind und an deren Spitze sich neue Sterne befinden”, Raum e.V., Düsseldorf, Germany
2013 “Daidaleia – the presence of fabulous edifices”, Donopoulos International Fine Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece
2012 “Sensorial Panopticum”, Beck & Eggeling Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany “Abiogenesis”, Kunstraum d-52, Düsseldorf, Germany
2011 “Objekt als Wesen”, Kunstverein APEX, Göttingen, Germany
2011 “Bioism Involved”, Kunstgarten Graz, Austria
2010 “The children of Daedalus”, Donopoulos International Fine Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece
2010 “Living architectures”, Beck & Eggeling Gallery in cooperation with Henn Gallery, Munich, Germany
2010 “Bioism aims to spread new and endless forms of life throughout the universe”, ARTUNITED, Vienna, Austria
2009 “Biofuturism”, Krefelder Kunstverein, Krefeld, Germany
2009 “Bioism”, Museo di Palazzo Poggi, Bologna, Italy
2008 “Objects – Drawings – Paintings”, Beck & Eggeling Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 “1914/1918 Not Then, Not Now, Not Ever!”, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany
2024 “Liminal”, Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
2023 “Krieg und Frieden”, Kunstpreis der Rosenheim-Stiftung, Offenbach am Main, Germany
2023 “Hoffnungsort Ukraine”, sculpture gallery, Osnabrück, Germany
2023 “World Framed”, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany
2023 “INSIDE / OUTSIDE”, PRISKA PASQUER PARIS, Paris, France
2022 “Fantasy of Light”, Galerie von Braunbehrens, Stuttgart, Germany
2022 “Courage X Contemporary Ukrainian Artists”, Atelierhaus Aachen, Germany DA! Art-Award 2022
2022 “Die Macht des Mythos”, Stadtmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany
2022 “Hope for Ukraine”, Galerie am Brüsseler Platz, Cologne, Germany FBZ art award, FBZ, Bochum, Germany Photo Frome, Frome, UK
2022 “Zero Gravity”, ES365 – Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf, Germany
2022 “Overwhelming Majority?”, Shtager Gallery, London, UK
2022 “Curator’s Choice #1”, Julia Ritterskamp, Düsseldorf, Germany
2022 “The Lightness Of Being”, Muse Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
2021 “Aljoscha & Gao Yutao & Leiko Ikemuma”, Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany
2021 “Modern & Tribal Masters”, Beck & Eggeling at Angela Berney Fine Arts, Basel, Switzerland
2021 “Lost Places”, Kunstverein Leverkusen, Germany
2021 “Füllhorn”, Julia Ritterskamp, Dusseldorf, Germany
2021 “Seeing Past the Future”, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, NY, USA
2021 “Trees for memories”, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
2021 “euward8”, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany “Overview #1“, Galerie Maximilian Hutz, Lustenau, Austria
2020 “Touchable Distance”, Y Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2020 “Hybridities / Hybriditäten”, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, Austria
2020 “5 Jahre Galerie von Braunbehrens”, Galerie von Braunbehrens, Stuttgart, Germany
2020 “Faces of Time”, ADH Studio, Moscow, Russia
2019 “Constructed Situations”, Istituto Provinciale per I’Infanzia Santa Maria della Pietà, Venice, Italy 7th Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece
2019 “Raum-Orientierung”, Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen, Germany
2019 “Modern & Tribal Masters”, Beck & Eggeling at Angela Berney Fine Arts, Basel, Switzerland
2019 “Das Neue Leben”, Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
2018 “1914/1918 – Not Then, Not Now, Not Ever”, Bundestag, Berlin, Germany
2018 “Complexellence”, WhiteSpaceBlackBox, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2017 “A Posteriori” Ural Vision Gallery, Yekaterinenburg, Russia
2017 “TheRhineArt” Prize, Bonn, Germany “Uncommon Bloom”, Villa Renata, Basel, Switzerland 2016
2017 “Perron Kunstpreis”, Kunsthaus Frankenthal, Germany
2017 “66. Bayreuther Kunstausstellung”, Kunstverein Bayreuth e.V., Germany
2017 “Grenzenlos”, Schlosskirche, Bonn, Germany
2017 “We Care a Lot”, Vorgebirgspark Skulptur, Cologne, Germany
2017 “Missing Link”, Künstlerforum, Bonn, Germany
2015 “Ein Baum ist ein Baum”, Beck & Eggeling Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
2015 “Panopticon”, 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2015 “Cross Borders 2015”, masc foundation, Vienna, Austria
2015 “Visions Of Sensory Space”, Gallery Voss, Düsseldorf, Germany
2015 “Dahlhausen Viral”, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany
2015 “Seltsame Wissenschaften”, Kunstverein Sundern, Germany
2014 “Mission O14”, Ostrale, Dresden, Germany
2014 “Kunst in der Stadt – Stadtkunst Bonn”, Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn, Germany
2014 “Skulptur!”, Beck & Eggeling Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
2013 “Rosebud”, TEAPOT, Cologne, Germany
2013 “Born To Fly… And Crawl”, The State Russsian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013 “Renaissance Reloaded”, Beck & Eggeling Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
2013 “Einheit und Trennung von Polaritäten | schwarz – weiß”, Unique Gallery with Galerie Martina Kaiser, Cologne, Germany
2013 “same same – but different”, Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn, Germany
2012 “The Space Between”, Donopoulos International Fine Arts – DIFA, Thessaloniki, Greece
2011 “S(l)idewalkshow”, ARTUNITED, Vienna, Austria
2011 “Monte Verità”, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2011 “Schnittstelle | Muster (2)”, Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn, Germany
2011 “animal”, Donopoulos International Fine Arts – DIFA, Thessaloniki, Greece Hybridartprojects, El Zonte, El Salvador
2011 “Wilhelm Morgner Preis”, Museum Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus, Soest, Germany
2010 TINA B. – The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Czech republic Darmstädter Sezession, Germany
2010 “Fuzzy Logic”, Thompson Gallery, Cambridge School of Weston, USA Kunstpreis Schlosspark 2009, Cologne, Germany
2010 “Symbio” (Biopolis), Galerie Vaclava Spaly, Prague, Czech republic
2009 “…Von Abakanowicz bis Conroy”, Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009 “Kunst im Kurpark”, Malente-Gremsmühlen, Germany XXXV Premio Bancaja, IVAM, Valencia, Spain
2008 “Christal Lightness”, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2008 “Skulptur”, Beck & Eggeling Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
2005 Pirateria e.V, Cologne, Germany Kunstlabor ArToll, Bedburg-Hau, Germany

Publications

2024, Aljoscha – TEFAF NY 2024
2023, Aljoscha – Transitional Era
2022, Aljoscha – НАДIЯ – Project Hope – Projekt Hoffnung
2020, Aljoscha – Alterocentric Eudaimonia
2019, Aljoscha – 3 Installations at Risa School
2019, Aljoscha – Urpflanze
2018, Aljoscha – Eine Biologie des Glücks
2018, Aljoscha – A Biology Of Happyness
2017, Aljoscha – The Gates Of The Sun And The Land Of Dreams
2017, Aljoscha – A Notion Of Cosmic Teleology
2015, Aljoscha – Iconoclasm and Bioism
2015, Aljoscha – Funiculus Umbilicalis
2012, Aljoscha – B-Meetings
2008 – 2012 2009, Aljoscha – Bioism
2008, Aljoscha – Objects