Ksenia Shinkovskaya

Artist, writer, professional hunter for great moments. Never been to the moon, but always dreamed. Loves puddles, bananas and looking at the sun through closed eyes.

Scientists have found that modern people experience a feeling of joy and happiness much less often than in the old days, and catastrophically less than archaic peoples like the Pirahã Indians.
I am looking for sources of joy, both large-scale and unusual, and completely simple, everyday. In my work, I try to remember forgotten entry points to happiness and discover new ones.
Each of my sculptures is a call to the inner child of a person. By stranging everyday impressions and everyday incidents, I extend the string from the ancient artists who painted petroglyphs through a dialogue with Bosch, Haeckel, surrealists to my viewer, inviting him to play his own melody on it.

Moscow State University 1999
Moscow Architectural Institute 2002
Japanese Embassy School of Arts in Moscow 2004
Studio TAF 2007

Exhibitions this year:

*Reflection (Union of artists SPb, Saint Petersburg, Russia)

*Feminart (Estartspace gallery, Madrid, Spain)

*Le soir d'un heureux (Arabiq gallery, Osaka, Japan)

* X International textile art biennale (Estartspace gallery, Madrid, Spain)

* "The hunt for the soluble fish" (Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia)

*"Mākslas dienas 2022" (Daugavpils history and art museum, Latvia)

*"3st Ural Triennial of Decorative Arts" (Yekaterinburg, Russia)

*"Fox spirit. Fox charm." (Eestii Kirjanduse Keskusega, Tallina, Estonia)

*"Matherial Thinking. 1st International contemporary Material Art Biennale" (Quingdao, China)

*"Fox spirit. Fox charm." (Eestii Lastekirjanduse Keskus, Tallina, Estonia)

*" Games for a long time and seriously" (Toy Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia)

*"No exception" (Daugavpils Mark Rotko art centr, Latvia)

*"Solo" (Australian wet felting groop, Pert, Australia)

* "Selected&Extreme" (Estartspace gallery, Madrid, Spain)

*"Teelised" (Esna Galeriis, Esna, Estonia)

*"Birds and bicycles. Ad ovo." (Izmailovo Gallery, Moscow, Russia)