Аксана Прутцкова

My practice revolves around the themes of communication and utopian futures. In my works, I explore the process of oscillation between irony and sincerity in the contemporary world, as well as mimicry as a survival strategy in society—raising the question of the threshold at which one loses their own sense of self.

I work with video installations, video art, and performance, viewing performance simultaneously as context and dialogue: with time, space, and other people.

Everything that used to be a monologue—books, films, paintings—has now, largely due to the emergence of social media (likes, comments, reactions), become a dialogue. Dialogue emerges even where it never existed before: we converse with objects such as smart speakers or car navigation systems, and their speech modules are even called "intelligence"—artificial, just in case.

As communication patterns shift from monologic to dialogic, art transforms as well. Dialogicity in art becomes possible through participatory or performative elements, which is why I often engage the audience in the issues explored in my works.

Artist's Statement

2023 // Moscow School of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art program
2014 // National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), MBA
2006 // Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Journalism

Selected Exhibitions

February-March 2025 // AI, NFT, etc. Here on Taganka, Moscow
December 2024 - February 2025 // Co:Creation of Worlds. MMOMA, Moscow
October 2024 // Cosmoscow Contemporary Art Fair
October 2024 // Inside and Outside. a—s—t—r—a, Moscow
September-October 2024 // ....Ь. Lyuda, St. Petersburg
July-August 2024 // EGO Constructor. Third Place, St. Petersburg
May-June 2024 // Worlds That Probably Never Existed. GROUND Solyanka
June 2024 // Third Place Art Fair, St. Petersburg
April-May 2024 // We Dreamed This Tomorrow. Winzavod Open Studios
March-April 2024 // Calendar. Gallery on Peschana, Moscow
January 2024 // While It’s New Year. Gallery 11.12, Moscow
December 2023 // Contemporary Art Fair catalog
October 2023 // StreetArteria FEST, Moscow
September-December 2023 // Frequencies 4.0, Festival of Scientific Art. Gallery Khodynka, Here on Taganka, Gallery on Peschana, Moscow
September-November 2023 // Graduation’23. Parking Gallery in Zaryadye
September-October 2023 // One — One. Gallery on Peschana, Moscow
July 2023 // Archstoyanie, Art Park Nikola-Lenivets
June 2023 // Parallel Program of the Artmossphere Biennale, Moscow
June-July 2023 // Beams, Columns, and Self-Identification. Zotov Center, Moscow
April-May 2023 // Cartoons-joysticks. Gallery Khodynka, Moscow
December 2022 - January 2023 // Humgat. Cube.Moscow, Moscow
November 2022 // Apartment No17. U Contemporary, Winzavod CCA, Moscow
July 2022 // Transformation. U Contemporary, Winzavod CCA, Moscow

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