{"id":1211,"date":"2016-04-04T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/?page_id=1211"},"modified":"2026-04-06T12:41:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:41:42","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/?page_id=1211","title":{"rendered":"About Artist | \u041f\u0440\u043e \u0445\u0443\u0434\u043e\u0436\u043d\u0438\u0446\u044e"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Artist Statement<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Alena Kuznetsova is a professional multidisciplinary artist born in 1986, who lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Her artistic practice engages with ecological and feminist perspectives, focusing on the fragile balance between humans and nature in contexts shaped by environmental transformation, conflict, and displacement. The artist is particularly interested in how these conditions generate new forms of interdependence, vulnerability, and resilience.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Participated in Ukrainian and international shows and is an author of 14 solo projects. Her creative work includes painting, graphics, video, installation, photography, text art, and ceramic sculpture. Alena&#8217;s artistic practice has changed a lot since 2022. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>She&#8217;s been focusing mainly on abstract painting and color research from 2008 to 2021. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Her art<\/strong> <strong>has<\/strong> <\/span>changed critically with the full-scale invasion. Alena came out to her international audience and colleagues with a war agenda and began volunteering a lot as a talking head and in written interviews, spreading the word. The artist came back to social issues in recent projects since 2022: Ukraine is Me, To the River, Flowers or Explosions, Broad Perspective, Nearly Three Years, Horizontal Links.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC04890.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1211]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14128 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC04890-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC04890-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC04890-500x333.jpg 500w, http:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC04890-450x300.jpg 450w, http:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC04890-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC04890-250x167.jpg 250w, http:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC04890-550x367.jpg 550w, http:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC04890-800x533.jpg 800w, http:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC04890-270x180.jpg 270w, http:\/\/alenakuznetsova.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC04890-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><strong>Education:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>2022<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lecture cycle &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Art in Times of Crisis&#8221; (Dr Emma Mahony), NCAD, Dublin.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">2015\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"> School of Visual Communications, Kyiv.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The New Art School (new media), Kyiv.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">2014-2015 <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">School of Contemporary Art, MARI, Kyiv.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">2003-2008 <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">KNUBA, Master&#8217;s degree, specialty Fine Arts, Kyiv.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">1998-2002 <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Children&#8217;s art school, Svitlovodsk, Kirovograd region.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Selected solo shows:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>2025<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Familiar Ground, MLYN, Kyiv (UA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2023<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flowers or Explosions, Forsa Gallery, Kyiv (UA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2022<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Relations with the Image, Imagine Point Gallery, Kyiv (UA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2021<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gamma, Ornament Art Space, Kyiv (UA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mechanical Ballet. Act 3, French Institute, Kyiv (UA)<\/li>\n<li>Trajectory, Mironova Foundation, Kyiv (UA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2018 <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flux, Triptych: Global Arts Workshop, Kyiv (UA)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mechanical Ballet, White World, Kyiv (UA)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2017<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gravity, Nebo Art Gallery, Kyiv (UA)<\/li>\n<li>Kill bill, America House, Kyiv (UA)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What color do you see?, MASLO the gallery, Khmelnytskiy (UA)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Selected group shows:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>2025<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meaning after Loss, Goethe-Institut, MRI+Ifa.de, Ukrainskiy Dim, Kyiv (UA)<\/li>\n<li>Serendipitous Events, Port of Culture, Ukrainskiy Dim, Kyiv (UA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2024<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sci-Fi art, Portal 11, Kyiv (UA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2023<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ukrainian 12, Portraits International Gallery, Brussels (BE)<\/li>\n<li>Concentration of the Will, M17, Kyiv (UA)<\/li>\n<li>Awakening, Museum of Kyiv (UA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2022<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From Ukraine with love, Gallerie Lorien, Copenhagen (DK)<\/li>\n<li>The Art of Resistance, Sala d&#8217;Exposicions Municipal, Valencia (SP)<\/li>\n<li>And Get Up!, Gallery Lavra, Kyiv (UA)<\/li>\n<li>Wartime. Reflections&#8230;, Dzyga, Lviv (UA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2021<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New Human Nature, NVAIR, Zbarazh Castle, Zbarazh, (UA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2020<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Objects art prize,\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">nominees&#8217; exhibition,\u00a0Chocolate House, Kyiv (UA)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Habitat. Manifesto 2020, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv (UA)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collective art show, Van Gogh Art Gallery, Madrid (ES)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Verbalization, Lavra Gallery,\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Kyiv (UA)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"s1\">Objects art prize, nominees&#8217; exhibition, Chocolate House, Kyiv (UA)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2018<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Values on the way, Lite-haus Galerie + Projektraum, Berlin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exposure, AkT, Kyiv (UA)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2017 <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marry me!, Zenko Foundation, Museum of Kyiv, Koruna (UA)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Residences, competitions, and art fairs:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>2024-2025\u00a0 <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Serendipity, art laboratory, Port of Culture, Kyiv (UA)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2024-2025 <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Martin Roth Initiative, hybrid, Kyiv-Leipzig (UA-GE)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2022 \u2013 Artists at Risk residency, AICA, Dublin (IE).<\/p>\n<p>2022 \u2013\u00a0Cultural Traffic residency, Vyzhnitsa (UA).<\/p>\n<p>2020 \u2013\u00a0<span class=\"details\">Objects Art Prize (2nd), Chocolate House, Kyiv (UA).<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>2019 \u2013 Art Bodensee , Dornbirn, Austria. Provenance: Van Gogh Gallery , Madrid (SP).<\/p>\n<p>2019 \u2013\u00a0<span class=\"details\">Objects Art Prize, Chocolate House, Kyiv (UA).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"expandable\">2018 \u2013 Nazariy Voitovich Art Residence, Travneve, Ternopil region (UA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"expandable\">2018 \u2013 Modern art international exhibition (Art Fair) in Seoul, (KR).<\/p>\n<p class=\"expandable\">2018 \u2013 First personal catalog publication.<\/p>\n<h4><em>Her works are in private and corporate collections in Ukraine, France, Germany, the USA, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Hong Kong, the UK, Australia, and Ireland.<\/em><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Contacts<\/h3>\n<p>E:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@alenakuznetsova.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">info@alenakuznetsova.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u041a\u0438\u0457\u0432 | \u041a\u0438\u0435\u0432 | Kyiv, Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>T1: +38 063 221 68 69 \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aku.color\">Alena 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