Aljoscha
Aljoscha, born Oleksii Potupin, is a Ukrainian visual artist known for large scale conceptual installations, sculptures, interventions, paintings and drawings based on ideas of bioism, biofuturism, bioethics and bioethical abolitionism.
Beyond the new aesthetics of bioism, his prioritized bioethical and philosophical ideas are the eradication of suffering and the paradise engineering.
Bioism represents an attempt to develop new life forms and to create an aesthetic for the future of organic existence. Each artwork is regarded by the artist as a hypothetical living being — an expression of synthetic vitality, complexity, morphological multiplicity, and deviance. Bioism signifies a shift from reproductive to generative art: from representing existing biological forms to creating fundamentally new life worlds and alternative ontologies. This paradigm expands the concept of life by attributing evolutionary potential to inanimate matter and by opening a path toward a symbiosis of art, bioethics, and biotechnology.
In Aljoscha’s visionary projection of the future, living systems will merge with the everyday — from living furniture and architecture to interplanetary biospheres — offering the artistic possibility of shaping non-suffering life forms. Thus, Bioism appears not only as an aesthetic platform but also as an ethical manifesto of bioethical abolitionism — envisioning the transformation of museums into laboratories of biosensitive diversity and of art into a practical instrument for the responsible formation of future life.
He studied 2001-2002 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany as well as 2006 at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria.
Selected grants and prizes
- 2024 "AD Selects", Architectural Digest at TEFAF, New York, USA
- 2024 Grant of Museum of Langenargen, Germany
- 2022 Grant of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony and Goethe Institut in Dresden, Germany
- 2020 Pollock-Krasner grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, USA
- 2017 "Über die Umschwünge der himmlischen Kreise", public installation project funded by Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2012 Grant of Hybridartprojects in Mandrem, India
- 2011 Grant of The University's Museum of Contemporary Art, in Venice, Italy
- 2011 Grant of Kunstgarten Graz, Austria
- 2010-2011 Grant of Hybridartprojects in El Zonte, El Salvador
- 2010 "bioism uprooting populus", public installation project funded by Karin Abt-Straubinger Stiftung, Germany
- 2009 Art prize "Schlosspark 2009", Cologne, Germany
- 2008 I Prize in sculpture, XXXV Premio Bancaja, Valencia, Spain
Selected public collections
- Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, Dresden, Germany
- Dommuseum Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany
- Fondazione Made in Cloister, Naples, Italy
- Fondazione Sant Elia, Palermo, Italy
- Getty Center, Los Angeles, USA
- ISREC Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Karasin University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Ahlen, Germany
- Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany
- LOAC, Alaior, Spain
- Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
- Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
- M17, Kyiv, Ukraine
- MArRC, Reggio Calabria, Italy
- MOMus, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Museo Bilotti, Rende, Italy
- Museum of Langenargen, Germany
- Museumsquartier MQ4, Osnabrück, Germany
- Technical University Dresden, Germany
- Vatican Collection, Rome, Italy
Selected solo exhibitions
- 2025
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010
- 2009
- 2008