Aljoscha (Ukrainian: Альоша, romanized: Alosha; 1974 in Lozova, USSR, now Ukraine), born Oleksii Potupin (Ukrainian: Олексій Потупін), is a Ukrainian visual artist known for large scale conceptual installations, sculptures, interventions, paintings and drawings based on ideas of bioism, biofuturism, bioethics and bioethical abolitionism.
Beyond the new aesthetics of bioism, his prioritized bioethical and philosophical ideas are the eradication of suffering and the paradise engineering.
He studied 2001-2002 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany (class of Prof. Konrad Klapheck) as well as 2006 at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria (class of Shirin Neshat).
Selected Prizes
- 2008 1. Prize in sculpture, XXXV Premio Bancaja Valencia, Spain.
- 2009 Art prize "Schlosspark 2009", Cologne, Germany.
Selected solo exhibitions
- 2024
- "Monadology of Consciousness and Space", Lauffenmühle, Lauchringen, Germany
- "Solidarity With Victims", Tribeca Synagogue, New York City, USA
- "Deviations of Kindness", Sant'Angelo, Milan, Italy
- "Mutative Transitions into Organic Utopia", Tempesta Gallery, Milan, Italy
- "Schwebend im Äther des Unwirklichen", Dreieinigkeitskirche, Eschweiler, Germany
- 2023
- "Composing Bioethical Choices", Dreieinigkeitskirche, Munich, Germany
- "The Signs of Hope", Periscope, Salzburg, Austria
- "Paradise Hypothesis", Galerie Priska Pasquer, Paris, France
- "Transitional Era", Johanniterkirche, Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria
- "Composing Bioethical Choices", Fondazione Made in Cloister, Naples, Italy
- 2022
- "Extraterrestrial Origin of Life", Altana Galerie, Technical University, Dresden, Germany
- "Distant Posterity", Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
- "Flüstern des Raums / Forming Divinity", Osthaus Museum and Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen, Germany
- "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
- "The Evolutionary Optimism", Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Germany
- "Reinvigorated, Rejuvenated", 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
- "Miraculous Draught", St. John the Divine, New York, USA
- "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 [de], 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. А. Camus", Futuro Gallery & Anna Nova Gallery, Nizhny 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"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", Gallery Anna Nova, 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 Salon, Cologne, Germany.
- 2014
- "Bioism", Erarata 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.
Notes
- "Aljoscha: ULAN Full Record Display". Union List of Artist Names (Getty Research). Retrieved 17 December 2022.
- "aljoscha > bioism > bioethical abolitionism". www.aljoscha.org. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- "Der Utopist" (PDF). Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- Rebelart. Alioscha: “Biofuturism sculptures”, 2009 Archived 17 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine
- "aljoscha > bioism > bioethical abolitionism". aljoscha.org. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
- "The Molecular Biology of Paradise". www.paradise-engineering.com. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
- "XXXV Premio de Pintura, Escultura y Arte Digital. Valencia, 2009 (sp.)". Archived from the original on 18 February 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
- "» Aljoscha". www.donopoulos.gr. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- Tillessen, Rosemarie (26 May 2024). "Schwebende grazile Formengebilde sind derzeit in der alten Fabrikhalle der Lauffenmühle zu sehen". SÜDKURIER Online (in German). Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- "STATEMENT ON THE "SOLIDARITY WITH VICTIMS" INSTALLATION BY UKRAINIAN ARTIST ALJOSCHA AT TRIBECA SYNAGOGUE - Event - TriBeCa Synagogue". tribecasynagogue.shulcloud.com. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- https://it.gariwo.net/magazine/fuorisalone-2024-a-milano-sguardo-sulle-deviazioni-della-gentilezza-di-aljoscha-27197.html
- https://www.c41magazine.com/the-organic-utopia-by-aljoscha-at-tempesta-gallery/
- "Lebendigkeit symbolisieren und die Hoffnung niemals aufgeben". aachener-zeitung-online (in German). 4 March 2024. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
- "2023 – 3einig" (in German). Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- "The Signs of Hope". periscope-coms Webseite! (in German). Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- "PARIS | ALJOSCHA - PARADISE HYPOTHESIS - PRISKA PASQUER GALLERY". PRISKA PASQUER. 10 March 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- Transitional Era
- "Composing Bioethical Choices". en.madeincloister.com. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- "Aljoscha: Extraterrestrial origin of life, Intervention in der Galerie der Kustodie". TU Dresden. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
- "COLOGNE | ALJOSCHA - DISTANT POSTERITY - PRISKA PASQUER GALLERY". PRISKA PASQUER. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
- "Emil Schumacher Museum Hagen". www.esmh.de. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
- "Aljoscha: Invincible Happiness Not Just For Humans, But For All Sentient Life | #BEduesseldorf | Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art". www.beck-eggeling.de (in German). Retrieved 4 March 2024.
- "BIOETHISCHE ABWEICHUNG ALS GRUNDPRINZIP DER PARADIESGESTALTUNG". kunst.ekir.de (in German). Retrieved 4 March 2024.
- "aljoscha [exhibitions] > "pillars of memory"". aljoscha.org. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
- "Wesen für Frieden und Freiheit", kunstverein-gelsenkirchen, Germany
- "The Evolutionary Optimism", Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Germany
- Reinvigorated, Rejuvenated
- Installationen des ukrainischen Malers und Bildhauers Aljoscha sind im Dommuseum Hildesheim
- Vivimos el mejor de los tiempos. Estamos comenzando a construir el Paraíso
- ¿Puedo alimentar a los monos de Gibraltar?
- "Aljoscha: The Miraculous Draught - Cathedral of Saint John the Divine". www.stjohndivine.org. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
- "Home". Mzkm. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- "Galerie Martina Kaiser: Artwork". www.galeriemartinakaiser.de. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- "Bioethische Funktionslust – Aljoscha | Galerie von Braunbehrens". 20 September 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- "Aljoscha - Bioethical Aberrations | Exhibition". ArtFacts. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- "Kunst in Kirchen: Aljoscha - Our philosophy determined by biological information processing principles | Exhibition". ArtFacts. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- "Kunst im BiT: Absage der Führung durch die Ausstellung Panspermia and Cosmic Ancestry - Press Corner - Unternehmen - KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA". www.kws.com. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- "Aljoscha | Galerie von Braunbehrens". 8 December 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- "Aljoscha: Alterocentric Eudaimonia | Sankt Peter Köln". Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- "Aljoscha: Urpflanze | Goethe Museum Düsseldorf". Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- "Aljoscha | Modelle der nie dagewesenen Arten – Kunstverein Paderborn e.V." kunstverein-paderborn.de. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- "Aljoscha. peak experience | #BEvienna | Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art". www.beck-eggeling.de. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- "PANSPERMIA / Aljoscha". Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- The Gates of the Sun and the Land of Dreams(in German)
- "Ausstellungen - Stiftung Schloss und Park Benrath". www.schloss-benrath.de. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- "Ausstellungen in Düsseldorf und Wien | Galerie Beck & Eggeling Aktuell & Vorschau (Seite 1) | Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art". www.beck-eggeling.de. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- "Aljoscha – "A Notion of Cosmic Teleology"". zero.eu. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- "Выставка Early Earth Was Purple / Будапешт в галерее современного искусства Ural Vision Gallery". uralvisiongallery.com. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- "aljoscha [installations] > "From Homo Faber to Homo Creator"". www.aljoscha.org. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- "«Биоэтика» от художника Aljoscha: когда галерея превращается в «сад» | greenbelarus.info". greenbelarus.info. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
External links
- Website of the artist Aljoscha
- Artfacts.net: Aljoscha
- Artsy: Aljoscha
- Aljoscha: Germinating New Art
- Aljoscha biography.
- Galeriemartinakaiser.de/en: Aljoscha
- Salve-magazine.de: Aljoscha
- Annanova-gallery.ru/en: Aljoscha
- Creativemindclass.com: Aljoscha Interview