Alexander Tarasenko

A London-based 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.

• Goldsmiths, University of London, MFA Fine Art, 2022 – 2024
• Free Workshops, School of Contemporary Art of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art,
Contemporary Art programme, 2018 – 2019
• TSEKH School of Photography, documentary photography programme, 2015 – 2016
• St. Petersburg Photography Workshops Fund, optical pictorialism programme, 2013
• St. Petersburg Photography Workshops Fund, digital photography programme, 2007

• Quiet Rituals, duo show with Katya Tsareva, KOPPEL Collective, London, 2026
• Memoryscape, pavilion of The Wrong Biennale, online, 2025 - 2026
• The Last Train, The Old Waiting Room, London, 2025
• Memoryscape, 25PES Space, Glasgow, 2025
• Conviction Fair, Hypha HQ, London, 2025
• Past & Present, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2023
• Parasomnia, AMP Gallery, London, 2023
• Taste The Difference, HYPHA STUDIOS, London, 2023
• Experiences of Human Isolation, Gogol’s House, Moscow, 2022
• HOMO COMMUNICANS, special project of the VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, 2020
• Dismorphophobia, or The War Within Your Mind, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, 2019