Alena Kuznetsova

Alena Kuznetsova’s interest last year was focused on the Image in art, on the study of how it transforms over time in her artistic practice. This also applies to more than 10 years of research of color as an independent phenomenon in an abstract approach, in the gradual splitting, dissolution of “solid” form into the pure vibration of the Liquid and Gamma series. The Kill bill series works in the conceptual field on the verge of balancing abstraction and the figurative that captures, flirts with the notion of the visual urban environment, ready-made and time. The compositional structure of Ballet Mecanique, the dynamic rich sound of a wide range of different media from enamel to graphic materials refers to the eponymous musical orchestra of 1924 and turns to synesthesia. The series Broad Perspective (not shown) basically works with time: an attempt to capture the moment "now" with a photo at high speed, then slowing it down as much as possible in time, in the process of working on a painting, in which, as in abstract series, essentially nothing happens. In some conceptual works/series in different media, Alena was interested in the themes of changes, corporeality, fluidity, digitalization of consciousness, ways of communication and...

Received a complete higher education and magister degree in the specialty “Fine Arts” (Kyiv National University of Building and Architecture, 2008). A member of academic and contemporary art schools, workshops, residencies exploring color, such as:

School of contemporary art at Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (Kyiv, 2014-2015)

School of Visual Communication (Kyiv, 2015), two courses of contemporary art; with Alevtina Kakhidze about moderation and argue solving through art and Kristina Solomukha about communication and media in contemporary art.

New art School (Kyiv, 2015), the art of new media, generative art. I received a grant for a 1-week intensive study, research work, and creating a project in public space and challenge of group work.
Paintings are in private collections in: the USA, Ukraine, Australia, Hong Kong, Czech, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

Solo shows:

2023 Flowers or Explosions, Forsa Gallery, Kyiv (UA)
2021 Gamma, Ornament Art Space, Kyiv (UA)
2019 Mechanical Ballet. Act 3, French Institute, Kyiv (UA)
2019 Trajectory, Mironova Foundation, Kyiv (UA)
2018 FLUX, Triptych: Global Arts Workshop, Kyiv (UA)
2018 Mechanical Ballet, White World, Kyiv (UA)
2017 KILL BILL, America house, Kyiv (UA)
2017 GRAVITY, NEBO art gallery, Kyiv (UA)

Selected group shows:

2020 Habitat, Lavra gallery, Kyiv (UA)
2019 Objects art prize, nominees' exhibition, Chocolate house, Kyiv (UA)
2018 Values on the way, Lite-haus Galerie + Projektraum, Berlin (De)
2018 Exposure, AkT, Kyiv (UA)
2017-2018 Marry me!, Zenko Foundation, Museum of Kyiv, Koruna (UA)
2017 What color do you see?, MASLO the gallery, Khmelnytstyi (UA)