Past exhibition

Aljoscha. Project HOPE

07.12.2024 – 02.02.2025

Extended until February 2th, 2025!

Ukrainian artist Aljoscha (born Aleksey Potupin in 1974) focuses his cross-media practice on “bioism” an attempt to create and explore new life forms for an organic future. A student of Konrad Klapheck and Shirin Neshat, Aljoscha works with sculpture, painting, drawing, and photography to explore the aesthetics of the future.

With unique sculptures made of acrylic glass, artfully crafted “bioisms”, he provides a visual expression that he sees in synthetic biology. The pink, open sculptures, as if captured in constant motion, were made for Project Hope (2022-present), which accompanies Aljoscha’s ongoing mission that he began since the outbreak of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. He temporarily delivers his sculptures to schools and hospitals located in the active war zones of Ukraine, aiming to give a glimmer of hope to those who need it. The project represents Aljoscha’s 62nd “b-meeting”, a series of interventions between bioisms and the natural world that the artist began in 2009 and documented through his photographic practice. A selection of striking photographs show the absurdity and tragedy of this war, the suffering of the weakest and the still healing security of isolated shelters. In the summer of 2024, the project was expanded to include actions by clowns in children’s homes and hospitals, some of which will be shown as documents and video works.

Aljoscha’s work has been exhibited worldwide, including in solo exhibitions at Priska Pasquer in Paris and Cologne, Galerie La Bibi in Madrid, Beck & Eggeling in Vienna and Düsseldorf, and in public installations at the Times Art Museum in China, St. John the Divine in New York, Goethe Museum in Düsseldorf, and Osthaus Museum in Hagen. Aljoscha was featured in a solo exhibition at Intersect Aspen with Sonya Gallery in 2023 and at TEFAF New York with Beck & Eggeling in 2019. He lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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Aljoscha. Project Hope. Fotoserie mit neuen

Aljoscha. Project Hope. Fotoserie mit neuen “Bioismus”-Skulpturen. Giving the light of Hope to Ukrainian women; to doctors and nurses, who carrying the daily burden of war. Krankenhäuser von Lozova, Kharkiv oblast, east Ukraine. This intervention is a forthcoming of the charity project HOPE which started in 14 Ukrainian special schools in March & April 2022. © Courtesy of the artist, Aljoscha 2024

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