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Ksenia Sova
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Ksenia (Bashmakova) Sova
they/them born in 1991
kseny.bashmak@gmail.com
https://instagram.com/bashmak.artist/
https://vimeo.com/kbashmak
Resides in Leipzig, Germany
Ksenia Sova lives and works in Leipzig, Germany. They explore
the varying social interfaces and intimacy in the digital
disorder age and are especially interested in alienation,
isolation and anxiety in personal communication.
WORKS | CV | Portfolio (Download PDF)
It would really mean a lot to me.
Ksenia (Bashmakova) Sova
they/them born in 1991
kseny.bashmak@gmail.com
https://instagram.com/bashmak.artist/
https://vimeo.com/kbashmak
Resides in Leipzig, Germany
Ksenia Sova lives and works in Leipzig, Germany. They explore
the varying social interfaces and intimacy in the digital
disorder age and are especially interested in alienation,
isolation and anxiety in personal communication.
WORKS | CV | Portfolio (Download PDF)
My artistic practice is research based video art with documentary features. My works explore the varying social interfaces and intimacy in digital disorder age and I'm especially interested in alienation, isolation and anxiety in personal communication and small communities. References to corporate culture and autobiographical narratives become for me a point of departure and means to define the boundary between staged and documentary practices.
WORKS
work in progress
TraumaZone (2023 – )
live video, organised sounds, prints
collaboration with Fyodor Stepanov, a musician based in Berlin, Germany. Fyodor works with experimental projects on the border of jazz, electronic and contemporary classical music. His practice combines relatively sophisticated forms and structures with straightforward sound constructions.
(https://fyodor-st.bandcamp.com/)
About the project:
Metaphors can be misleading or confusing, especially if they are used to describe a complex or abstract concept in a way that oversimplifies or misrepresents it. Starting in the 1870s, a giant octopus became one of the most popular political metaphors, used to depict countries, communities, nations, and ideologies. Today, it is often used to represent big corporations with wide access to personal data. This use of the octopus metaphor is quite negative, and is generally considered derogatory and offensive. The audio-visual performance works with the idea of a hostile landscape as the habitat for a metaphorical creature that tells a story about fear, violence, forced influence, and control.
www.instagram.com/trauma.zone/
collaboration with Fyodor Stepanov, a musician based in Berlin, Germany. Fyodor works with experimental projects on the border of jazz, electronic and contemporary classical music. His practice combines relatively sophisticated forms and structures with straightforward sound constructions.
(https://fyodor-st.bandcamp.com/)
About the project:
Metaphors can be misleading or confusing, especially if they are used to describe a complex or abstract concept in a way that oversimplifies or misrepresents it. Starting in the 1870s, a giant octopus became one of the most popular political metaphors, used to depict countries, communities, nations, and ideologies. Today, it is often used to represent big corporations with wide access to personal data. This use of the octopus metaphor is quite negative, and is generally considered derogatory and offensive. The audio-visual performance works with the idea of a hostile landscape as the habitat for a metaphorical creature that tells a story about fear, violence, forced influence, and control.
www.instagram.com/trauma.zone/
CV
Education
since 2021 — Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig; expanded cinema
2017 – 2021 — The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, Videoart (Images in motion laboratory)
2017 — The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, Fundamentals of Photography
2015 – 2016 — School of Contemporary art “Free workshops” of Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Art
2009 – 2014 — Russian State University for Humanities, Marketing
Exhibitions
2024 — Terms and Conditions — Galerie HGB, Leipzig, Germany
2023 — "Wir zeigen, was wir (nicht) wissen – Bilder als Forschung", Japanisches Palais, Dresden, Germany
2023 — "SORRY, I HAVE TO LEAVE", Hase29 (European Media Art Festival)Osnabrück
2022 — »DSCH«, Gewandhaus, Leipzig
2021 — “Limited Visibility”, Ekaterina Gallery
2021 — Pavilion Russia: coziness (postpandemic), Elektrozavod Gallery
2020 — "More", Kerka Gallery
2020 — “Remote Intimacy. Social interfaces in digital disorder age. Vol. 1”, 25KADR Gallery
2020 — “FEAR”, The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia
2020 — “Art-Memory”, Google Arts&Culture online exhibition (as curator)
2020 — “There is a film…”, online film festival (as organisator)
2019 — “I don't believe it!”, Studio on Clean Ponds
2019 — “Anything Else”, Elektrozavod Gallery
2019 — “Power over yourself”, Smirnov and Sorokin Foundation
2019 — “Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival (LUFF)”, Lausanne, Switzerland
2019 — “Video Art Festival Turku”, Turku, Finland
2019 — “Pavilion Russia”, Art-DEPO
2019 — “Nonexistence”, Zverevsky Center for Contemporary Art
2018 — “God (for)bid”, Art-Kremlin
2018 — “Hidden Meaning Detector”, Russian State University for Humanities
2018 — “Sound variantology”, The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia
2018 — “Outdated progress”, Open Storageof the Polytechnic Museum
2018 — “Actual stupidity”, The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia
2018 — “Class meeting”, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art
2018 — “The state of emergency”, QuartaRiata Residency of Arts & Technology
2017 — “Art in the City”, Bogorodskoye Gallery
2017 — “Where no one dreams”, MMoMA
2017 — “Point of entry”, The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia
2016 — “Procrastination”, MMoMA
2015 — “Losung Slogan Tag”, Factory
2015 — “Frames and series”, Punktum
Education
since 2021 — Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig; expanded cinema
2017 – 2021 — The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, Videoart (Images in motion laboratory)
2017 — The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, Fundamentals of Photography
2015 – 2016 — School of Contemporary art “Free workshops” of Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Art
2009 – 2014 — Russian State University for Humanities, Marketing
Exhibitions
2024 — Terms and Conditions — Galerie HGB, Leipzig, Germany
2023 — "Wir zeigen, was wir (nicht) wissen – Bilder als Forschung", Japanisches Palais, Dresden, Germany
2023 — "SORRY, I HAVE TO LEAVE", Hase29 (European Media Art Festival)Osnabrück
2022 — »DSCH«, Gewandhaus, Leipzig
2021 — “Limited Visibility”, Ekaterina Gallery
2021 — Pavilion Russia: coziness (postpandemic), Elektrozavod Gallery
2020 — "More", Kerka Gallery
2020 — “Remote Intimacy. Social interfaces in digital disorder age. Vol. 1”, 25KADR Gallery
2020 — “FEAR”, The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia
2020 — “Art-Memory”, Google Arts&Culture online exhibition (as curator)
2020 — “There is a film…”, online film festival (as organisator)
2019 — “I don't believe it!”, Studio on Clean Ponds
2019 — “Anything Else”, Elektrozavod Gallery
2019 — “Power over yourself”, Smirnov and Sorokin Foundation
2019 — “Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival (LUFF)”, Lausanne, Switzerland
2019 — “Video Art Festival Turku”, Turku, Finland
2019 — “Pavilion Russia”, Art-DEPO
2019 — “Nonexistence”, Zverevsky Center for Contemporary Art
2018 — “God (for)bid”, Art-Kremlin
2018 — “Hidden Meaning Detector”, Russian State University for Humanities
2018 — “Sound variantology”, The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia
2018 — “Outdated progress”, Open Storageof the Polytechnic Museum
2018 — “Actual stupidity”, The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia
2018 — “Class meeting”, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art
2018 — “The state of emergency”, QuartaRiata Residency of Arts & Technology
2017 — “Art in the City”, Bogorodskoye Gallery
2017 — “Where no one dreams”, MMoMA
2017 — “Point of entry”, The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia
2016 — “Procrastination”, MMoMA
2015 — “Losung Slogan Tag”, Factory
2015 — “Frames and series”, Punktum
