Aljoscha b. 1971

Aljoscha was born in 1974 in Hlukhiv, Ukraine. From 2001 to 2002, he was a guest student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Professor Konrad Klapheck, and in 2006, he studied at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg with Shirin Neshat. He currently lives and works in Düsseldorf and is represented nationally and internationally with major exhibitions and installations.

In his drawings, sculptures, and installations, he fundamentally explores themes from biology, the study of life, and the concepts of bioism and biofuturism, which serve as utopian models for newly conceived life forms or beings.

Aljoscha does not conceive his sculptures, installations, and interventions as conventional artworks, but as futuristic organisms in the spirit of bioism. Sources of inspiration for his work include biotechnology and genetic engineering. His orientation is more closely aligned with the natural sciences and philosophy than with art theory.

With his auratic sculptures and installations, Aljoscha clearly breaks away from the lines of conventional art practice. His work is neither about the artistic reproduction of phenomena nor their abstract distortion. Rather, Aljoscha creates alien organisms out of acrylic paint, silicone, and acrylic glass—beings that transcend time and space. The transparency and delicacy of his chosen materials, as well as the lightness of form, are deliberately selected: through their floating state, movement and dynamism are evoked.