Bio

Alina Kugush (b. 1994, St. Petersburg) is an artist living and working in St. Petersburg.

She works in the media of painting, watercolor and printmaking, video animation, site-specific installation and performance. Creates events on the edge of performance and art-mediation, using make-up practice and working with the viewer.

Studied at the Graphic Arts Department of the Repin Academy. I.E. Repin. Graduate of the school for young artists of the PRO ARTE Foundation. Participant of the School of Active Drawing and Performative Posing SHARPPS-7 of the group “North 7”. The artist’s projects have been displayed in group exhibitions at Myth, NAME GALLERY, AIR.ITMO Gallery, Peresvetov Pereulok, at the Museum-Apartment of V. V. Nabokov, as well as at international festivals CYFEST-13 and Art Prospect, at Cosmoscow and Contemporary Istanbul fairs.

Nominee of the Kurekhin Prize (2022) in the category “Best Media Object”. Resident of the Garage Museum Workshops (2023). Fellow of the grant program for artists of the of the GES-2 House of Culture V–A–C Foundation (2024).

Guest lecturer and curator of the course “Fundamentals of Contemporary Painting” at the Moscow School of Contemporary Art.

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Education

2020 — 2021 School of Young Artist, PRO ARTE Fund in St. Petersburg, degree in contemporary art
2014 — 2018 Repin Academy of Arts, Faculty of Graphic Arts
2012 — 2014 Herzen State Pedagogical University, Faculty of Fine Arts

Selected solo exhibitions:

2023 Go to the fftn bend. Relocated FFTN Gallery, Garage Museum Workshops, Moscow

2021 Vanishing Points (in collaboration with Alexander Verevkin), curated by
Anastasiya Kotyleva. MYTH Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

2021 Fly round, curated by Lizaveta Matveyeva. Peter and Paul Fortress, PRO ARTE
Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia

Selected group exhibitions:

2024 Surreal, Bayt AlMamzar, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
CTRL+Y.Repeat the canceled action, Ц–1, Moscow, Russia
2023 I always knew that we would meet, curated by Alexey Maslyaev. Third Place
Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
Guiding Thread. Incarnations, curated by Sasha Puchkova. Oktava Cluster, Tula,
Russia
2022 How to Catch a Moth?, curated by Ilia Kronchev-Ivanov. Nabokov Museum,
St. Petersburg, Russia
Exhibition of nominees for the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize (2021), St. Petersburg,
Russia
2021 Who are you, and who am I?, curated by Elena Gubanova. Cyberfest-13 Festival,
AIR.ITMO Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
5×5×5. State Museum of Urban Sculpture, Art Weekend, St. Petersburg, Russia
Aesthetical Dissensions, curated by Sasha Obukhova. NAME GALLERY,
St. Petersburg, Russia
2019 Housekeeping, curated by Anna Zavediy. WYNWOOD Hotel, St. Petersburg, Russia
2017 SADPP-7 (School of active drawing and performative posing “North-7”). Museum
of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg, Russia
2016 Common Place. Peresvetov Gallery, Moscow
2016 Common Place. NAME GALLERY, St. Petersburg, Russia

Performances:

2023 A Trap for the Oddball, a performative tour of the Garage Museum Library,
Moscow, Russia
2022 Mosura: the emergence of the black moth, at the exhibition “Spider’s Web Forest”
by Alexandra Gart. Anna Nova gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
Root-crop, at the exhibition “Lost Time Fairy Tales” by Vladislav
Mamyshev-Monroe. K-gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2019 The Magic Tablecloth, opening of the Curatorial Forum, curated by Anna Zavediy.
NCCA St. Petersburg, Russia
CV, “Perfect Polly” project by Andrey Andreyev. Antonov gallery, St. Petersburg
Poses of Waiting, performance — Ekaterina Shelganova’s laboratory, three-channel
video installation. Sidur Museum, Moscow, Russia
2015 Garden of Vigilant Clothes, Gluklya Pershina, Vladimir Rannev, interactive sound
performance. Lopukhinsky Garden, St. Petersburg, Russia

Residencies and educational programs:

2023 Art Residency of the Garage Museum, Moscow, Russia
Atelier de l’amitié / Lera Lerner’s Laboratory of Friendship. GES-2, Moscow, Russia
2022 Along the Stream, a long-term participatory project — a laboratory for scientists
and artists. State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, Russia
2021 Practicum, Workshop as part of the 3rd NCCA Northwest Curatorial Forum.
St. Petersburg, Russia
Olya Kroytor’s Workshop on Performance in the Urban Environment,
Art Prospect Festival, Russia
2019 Beach Urban Week, training camp for artists, Sosnovy Bor, Russia

Art fairs:

2024 Contour, Sheraton Kremlin, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia
2023 Cosmoscow Contemporary Art Fair, Moscow, Russia
Contemporary Istanbul 18th edition, Istanbul, Turkey
2019 SAM Fair, Museum of Street Art, St. Petersburg, Russia
2018 St. Dogvilleburg, 7th Independent Contemporary Art Fair, Sevcabel Port,
St. Petersburg, Russia
2018 Print Market “Taste of Paper”. Moscow, Russia
2018 Print Addiction. Squat ¾, Moscow, Russia
2017 First 7th Independent Art Fair of Contemporary Art (art group North-7), Creative Space 0+,
St. Petersburg, Russia

Awards and nominations

2024 Laureate of the grant programme for artists of the GES-2 House of Culture
2022 Nominee for the Sergey Kurekhin Prize for Contemporary Art in the category “Best Media Object 2021”
2020 Shortlist for CYLAND MediaArtLab’s 1/1 competition for sound artists, in association with Ekaterina Shelganova and Helga Zinziewer

Publications/ Selected Press

2023 Собака.ru: 10 promising artists of St. Petersburg
  Art Focus Now: Contemporary Istanbul
18th Contemporary Istambul Catalog [online pdf]
  obdn.en, new faces: meet the Garage Studios residents
GRANDMAMA’S PRINT MAGAZINE #4, ESC [link]
2022 ДИ № 3 “Не/уязвимость”, interview about vulnerability with Lera Lerner
  obdn_ru, How to Catch a Moth?
  Собака.ru, How to Catch a Moth? , exhibition guide
2021 Calvert Journal, section Curated
13' CyFest International Media Art Festival Catalog [online pdf]
  news.itm, interview about the installation “Laboratory X”
2020 ELLE Decoration: 10 artists you need to know
  Studio Studies, video interview about the workshop, special project for the Curatorial Forum
2019 SAM FAIR Catalog [online pdf]

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