COLOGNE | ALJOSCHA – DISTANT POSTERITY – PRISKA PASQUER GALLERY
Opening, Friday, November 11, 2022
November 11, 2022 – January 31, 2022
ALJOSCHA
Aljoscha wurde 1974 im Osten der Ukraine in Lozova geboren. Seit mehr als 20 Jahren lebt und arbeitet er in Düsseldorf, wo er bei Konrad Klapheck an der Kunstakademie studierte. 2006 nahm er an der internationalen Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst in Salzburg bei Shirin Neshat teil. 2008 erhielt er den 1. Preis in Skulptur auf der XXXV. Premio Bancaja, Valencia, Spanien und 2009 den Skulpturpreis »Schlosspark 2009« in Köln. Im Jahr 2010 fand das Installationsprojekt »bioism uprooting populus« statt, welches durch die Karin Abt-Straubinger Stiftung in Stuttgart gefördert wurde. Im November 2018 vertrat Aljoscha in der Ausstellung »1914/1918 – Not Then, Not Now, Not Ever« im Deutschen Bundestag, welche zum 100. Mal an das Ende des 1. Weltkrieges erinnern soll, die Ukraine. Seine Werke sind in zahlreichen Privatsammlungen und Museen vertreten, darunter im Getty Center in Los Angeles, im Kupferstichkabinett Berlin sowie im State Museum of contemporary Art in Thessaloniki.
ALJOSCHA
Aljoscha was born in 1974 in Lozova in eastern Ukraine. For more than 20 years he has lived and worked in Düsseldorf, where he studied with Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy. In 2006 he participated in the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg with Shirin Neshat. In 2008 he received the 1st prize in sculpture at the XXXV Premio Bancaja, Valencia, Spain and in 2009 the sculpture prize “Schlosspark 2009” in Cologne. In 2010, the installation project “bioism uprooting populus” took place, which was sponsored by the Karin Abt-Straubinger Foundation in Stuttgart. In November 2018, Alyosha represented Ukraine in the exhibition “1914/1918 – Not Then, Not Now, Not Ever” in the German Bundestag, which is intended to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War 1. His works are represented in numerous private collections and museums, including the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, and the State Museum of contemporary Art in Thessaloniki.
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
2022 “Füstern des Raums / Forming Divinity”, Osthaus Museum and Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen, Germany “Our world has changed abruptly”, Goethe Institut, Windhoek, Namibia “Invincible Happiness Not Just For Humans, But For All Sentient Life”, Beck & Eggeling Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany “Bioethische Abweichung als Grundprinzip der Paradiesgestaltung”, Johanneskirche, Düsseldorf, Germany “Anti-war Intervention in Kiew 2022”, masc foundation, Vienna, Austria “Wesen für Frieden und Freiheit”, Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen, Germany “Stope insanity, seek for kindness!”, Fondazione Sant’Elia, Palermo, Italy “The Evolutionary Optimism”, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Germany “Reinvigorated, Rejuvenated”, Katharinenkirche, Burg Bentheim in cooperation with gopea-kunstraum, Bad Bentheim, Germany “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 “¿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 “Durchbruch des Seins in den unbegrenzten Freiraum der Möglichkeiten”, Galerie Martina Kaiser, Cologne, Germany
2019 “Bioethische Funktionslust”, Galerie von Braunbehrens, Stuttgart, Germany “Bioethical Aberrations”, Städtische Galerie Sohle 1, Bergkamen, Germany “Our philosophy determined by biological information processing principles”, Marienkirche, Ortenberg, Germany “Panspermia and Cosmic Ancestry”, KWS and Galerie Susanne Neuerburg, Einbeck, Germany “Geschwindigkeitsbeschleunigung der Evolution”, Galerie Maximilian Hutz, Lustenau, Austria “Alterocentric Eudaimonia”, Kunststation St. Peter, Cologne, Germany “Urpflanze”, Goethe-Museum Düsseldorf, Germany “Modelle der nie dagewesenen Arten”, Kunstverein Paderborn, Germany
2018 “Peak Experience”, Beck & Eggeling Gallery, Vienna, Austria “Panspermia”, Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia “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 “The Hedonotropic Force”, Galerie Susanne Neuerburg, Germany “Know Thyself”, Donopoulos International Fine Arts, Mykonos, Greece “The Gates of the Sun and the Land of Dreams”, Museum Schloss Benrath, Düsseldorf, Germany “The Gates of the Sun and The Land of Dreams”, Beck & Eggeling Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany “A Notion of Cosmic Teleology”, Sala Santa Rita, Rome, Italy “Early Earth Was Purple”, Ural Vision Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2016 “Iconoclasm and Bioism”, Julia Ritterskamp, Düsseldorf, Germany “Auratic Objects”, Donopoulos International Fine Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece “From Homo Faber to Homo Creator”, Gallery Martina Kaiser, Cologne, Germany “Lotophagie”, Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia “Archaeen”, Gallery Martina Kaiser, Cologne, Germany “Bioethics”, Gallery Y, Minsk, Belarus
2015 “Paradise Engineering”, Flora, Cologne, Germany “Hadaikum”, Gallery Martina Kaiser, Cologne, Germany “Animism and Bioism”, National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria “Funiculus umbilicalis”, St. Petri, Dortmund, Germany “Synthetic | Elysium”, Daab Verlag, Cologne, Germany
2014 “Bioism”, Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia “Lotuseffekt”, Goethe Institut, Sofia, Bulgaria
2013 “We love you stars. May you adore us”, Galerie Claudia Junig, Cologne, Germany “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 “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 “Bioism Involved”, Kunstgarten Graz, Austria
2010 “The children of Daedalus”, Donopoulos International Fine Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece “Living architectures”, Beck & Eggeling Gallery in cooperation with Henn Gallery, Munich, Germany “Bioism aims to spread new and endless forms of life throughout the universe”, ARTUNITED, Vienna, Austria
2009 “Biofuturism”, Krefelder Kunstverein, Krefeld, Germany “Bioism”, Museo di Palazzo Poggi, Bologna, Italy
2008 “Objects – Drawings – Paintings”, Beck & Eggeling Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
“Fantasy of Light”, Galerie von Braunbehrens, Stuttgart, Germany “Courage X Contemporary Ukrainian Artists”, Atelierhaus Aachen, Germany DA! Art-Award 2022 “Die Macht des Mythos”, Stadtmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany “Hope for Ukraine”, Galerie am Brüsseler Platz, Cologne, Germany FBZ art award, FBZ, Bochum, Germany Photo Frome, Frome, UK “Zero Gravity”, ES365 – Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf, Germany “Overwhelming Majority?”, Shtager Gallery, London, UK “Curator’s Choice #1”, Julia Ritterskamp, Düsseldorf, Germany “The Lightness Of Being”, Muse Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
2021 “Aljoscha & Gao Yutao & Leiko Ikemuma”, Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany “Modern & Tribal Masters”, Beck & Eggeling at Angela Berney Fine Arts, Basel, Switzerland “Lost Places”, Kunstverein Leverkusen, Germany “Füllhorn”, Julia Ritterskamp, Dusseldorf, Germany “Seeing Past the Future”, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, NY, USA “Trees for memories”, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium “euward8”, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany “Overview #1“, Galerie Maximilian Hutz, Lustenau, Austria
2020 “Touchable Distance”, Y Gallery, Minsk, Belarus “Hybridities / Hybriditäten”, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, Austria “5 Jahre Galerie von Braunbehrens”, Galerie von Braunbehrens, Stuttgart, Germany “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 “Raum-Orientierung”, Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen, Germany “Modern & Tribal Masters”, Beck & Eggeling at Angela Berney Fine Arts, Basel, Switzerland “Das Neue Leben”, Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
2018 “1914/1918 – Not Then, Not Now, Not Ever”, Bundestag, Berlin, Germany “Complexellence”, WhiteSpaceBlackBox, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2017 “A Posteriori” Ural Vision Gallery, Yekaterinenburg, Russia “TheRhineArt” Prize, Bonn, Germany “Uncommon Bloom”, Villa Renata, Basel, Switzerland 2016 “Perron Kunstpreis”, Kunsthaus Frankenthal, Germany “66. Bayreuther Kunstausstellung”, Kunstverein Bayreuth e.V., Germany “Grenzenlos”, Schlosskirche, Bonn, Germany “We Care a Lot”, Vorgebirgspark Skulptur, Cologne, Germany “Missing Link”, Künstlerforum, Bonn, Germany
2015 “Ein Baum ist ein Baum”, Beck & Eggeling Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany “Panopticon”, 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia “Cross Borders 2015”, masc foundation, Vienna, Austria “Visions Of Sensory Space”, Gallery Voss, Düsseldorf, Germany “Dahlhausen Viral”, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany “Seltsame Wissenschaften”, Kunstverein Sundern, Germany
2014 “Mission O14”, Ostrale, Dresden, Germany “Kunst in der Stadt – Stadtkunst Bonn”, Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn, Germany “Skulptur!”, Beck & Eggeling Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
2013 “Rosebud”, TEAPOT, Cologne, Germany “Born To Fly… And Crawl”, The State Russsian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia “Renaissance Reloaded”, Beck & Eggeling Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany “Einheit und Trennung von Polaritäten | schwarz – weiß”, Unique Gallery with Galerie Martina Kaiser, Cologne, Germany “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 “Monte Verità”, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt/Main, Germany “Schnittstelle | Muster (2)”, Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn, Germany “animal”, Donopoulos International Fine Arts – DIFA, Thessaloniki, Greece Hybridartprojects, El Zonte, El Salvador “Wilhelm Morgner Preis”, Museum Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus, Soest, Germany
2010 TINA B. – The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Czech republic Darmstädter Sezession, Germany “Fuzzy Logic”, Thompson Gallery, Cambridge School of Weston, USA Kunstpreis Schlosspark 2009, Cologne, Germany “Symbio” (Biopolis), Galerie Vaclava Spaly, Prague, Czech republic
2009 “…Von Abakanowicz bis Conroy”, Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf, Germany “Kunst im Kurpark”, Malente-Gremsmühlen, Germany XXXV Premio Bancaja, IVAM, Valencia, Spain
2008 “Christal Lightness”, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt am Main, Germany “Skulptur”, Beck & Eggeling Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
2005 Pirateria e.V, Cologne, Germany Kunstlabor ArToll, Bedburg-Hau, Germany
Publications
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