I am an intermedia artist primarily working with performance, sculpture, installation, photography and moving image.
My artistic practice and research consist of long-term projects investigating anxiety, trauma, shame and initiation experience. I am particularly interested in the way anxiety manifests itself in the everyday life of a modern city dweller, from neuroses and complexes characteristic of contemporary society to narrower community-specific issues of cultural shock, cross-cultural adjustment and personality breakdown and transformation.
Another focus of my research lies in the realm of internal conflicts and the daily invisible struggle with oneself that is waged by a person recognizing the irrationality and abnormality of their fears, compulsions, and obsessions, as well as the contradiction between their thoughts and behaviour and the implicit social norms and expectations of their community.
This is also reflected in my interest in the topic of taboos in contemporary societies and subcultures, which began with my research into taboo sexuality in post-Soviet society and is now being studied by me in the context of taboo topics in countries with an imperial past.
One of my ongoing projects explores how an exaggerated manifestation of socially praised feelings and behavioural patterns leads to their transformation into their complete opposite: dependence, psychosis and attempts to establish control and subjugate the object of emotion.
My art is deeply personal, yet I use my memories as a trigger and legitimising foundation for public observations on universal philosophical and anthropological problems of our time.
I am currently based in London and exhibit worldwide.
Education
Goldsmiths, University of London, MFA Fine Art
Free Workshops, School of Contemporary Art of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Art
TSEKH School of Photography, Documentary Photography
St. Petersburg Photography Workshops Fund, Optical Pictorialism
St. Petersburg Photography Workshops Fund, Digital Photography
2022 – 2024
2018 – 2019
2015 – 2016
2013
2007
Fine Art Photography Awards, Conceptual category
Awards
2023
Traces of Ten Thousand Acts of Young Love Behind the Transformer Box (Lava), operformancef & Metamophika, Hackney Downs Park, London
Rust, KOPPEL Collective, London (with soundscape specially composed and performed by Alessandro Paiano)
It Is Stronger Than You, 25PES Space, Glasgow
The Green Lizard Boy, Hypha HQ, London
I Have Many Times Tried To Become An Insect. But I Was Not Equal Even To That. Hypha HQ
and public spaces outside the gallery, London
Selected Solo Performances
2026
2026
2025
2025
2025
BLIN, Outhouse Gallery, London
QUIET RITUALS, duo show with Katya Tsareva, KOPPEL Collective, London
Medium Is The Message, Video Art Festival, Grad Gallery, Cultural Center Grad, Belgrade
Memoryscape., digital pavilion of The Wrong Biennale
The Last Train, The Old Waiting Room, London
Memoryscape., 25PES Space, Glasgow
Conviction Fair, Hypha HQ, London
Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, London
Past & Present, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Parasomnia, AMP Gallery, London
Taste The Difference, HYPHA STUDIOS, London
Experiences of Human Isolation, Gogol’s House, Moscow
Experiences of Human Isolation, special project of the V Open Festival of Film, Science and
Contemporary Art 'Gagarin.doc', Saratov Regional Centre of Art Professionals, Saratov
HOMO COMMUNICANS, special project of the VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art,
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Inverted Perspective, Nagornaya Gallery, Moscow
FREE.OFF // Freedom, CCI Fabrika, Moscow
Dismorphophobia, or The War Within Your Mind, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Look at Yourself, Na Pestchanoy Gallery, Moscow
OUT, Fligel Space, Vladimir
Coordinates, CCI Fabrika, Moscow
Selected Exhibitions
2026
2026
2026
2025 – 2026
2025
2025
2025
2024
2023
2023
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019 – 2020
2019
2019
2019
2019
2018