ARTIST STATEMENT:
Albina Mokhryakova (b. 1990, Bratsk, Russia) works with new narrative techniques, namely, she dissects the language of media, documentary, and media archeology. Working with video, photo and performance, the artist takes documentary (news, YouTube videos) and personal experiences of others (memories, diaries of media heroes) as a starting point for creating visual and plastic images.

Albina holds a BA degree from the Rodchenko Art School (Video Art class, supervised by Kirill Preobrazhensky and Dimitri Venkov, 2018).

She is twice the winner of the Kandinsky Prize in the ‘Young Artist. Project of the Year’ nomination. Her works have been exhibited at KINDL - Center for Contemporary Art (2024, Berlin), Konsthall C (2023, Stockholm), Garage Museum
Of Contemporary Art (2020, Moscow), MG+MSUM (2020, Ljubljana), Cité internationale des arts − Montmartre, Villa Radet (2018, Paris), Visual Culture Research Center (2018), The Watermill Center (2016, New York).
EDUCATION:
2018 Video Art Class, masters Kirill Preobrazhensky and Dimitri Venkov,
Rodchenko Art School, Moscow
2013 Philology Department, The Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State University

AWARDS:
2024 Lumen Prize, Moving Image Award Finalist
2021 The 13th Kandinsky Prize, ‘Young Artist. Project of the Year’ winner
2019 The 12th Kandinsky Prize, ‘Young Artist. Project of the Year’ winner
2018 – 2019 represented Russia at The International Encounter for Art Schools Students Artagon. IV. Heading East and Artagon Live, Paris

FILM FESTIVALS:
2021 BIDEODROMO international experimental film and video festival, Bilbao
2019 International Festival of Film Debuts SPIRIT OF FIRE, Khanty-Mansiysk
2017 ArtDocFest Film Festival, Moscow

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2017 COME ON!, Rodchenko Art School, Moscow
2016 NEET, Rodchenko Art School, Moscow

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024 The New Subject, co-curated by TOK /Anna Bitkina and Maria Veits, KINDL - Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2023 The New Subject. Mutating Rights and Conditions of Living Bodies, сo-curated by TOK /Anna Bitkina and Maria Veits/ and Ulrika Flink, Konsthall C, Stockholm
2023 Based On A True Story, curated by Kirill Preobrazhensky, WINZAVOD Contemporary Art Center, Moscow
2022 Acollection, online NFT exhibition initiated by the Aksenov Family Foundation
2022 Arctic Treeline, curated by Ekaterina Sharova, Contemporary Art Center ‘Arkhangelsk’, as part of UK-Russia Creative Commissions program, Arkhangelsk

2021 The 13th Kandinsky Prize Nominees Exhibition, Moscow Museum Of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow
2020 2nd Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, curated by Valentin Dyakonov and Anastasia Mityushina, Garage Museum Of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2020 20:20. Time stopped, curated by Alexander Burenkov, Moscow Museum Of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow
2020 Viral Self-Portraits, MG+MSUM online exhibition, Ljubljana
2019 The 12th Kandinsky Prize Nominees Exhibition, Moscow Museum Of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow
2018, 2019 Artagon Live and Artagon. IV. Heading East, curated by Anna Labouze & Keimis Henni, Cité internationale des arts − Montmartre, Villa Radet and Magasins généraux, Paris
2018 Bergman. Metamorphoses, curated by Karina Karaeva, Solyanka gallery, Moscow
2016 ICE installation, curated by Robert Wilson, The 23rd Annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit & Auction, The Watermill Center, New York

RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS:

2021, Arctic Treeline artist residency, led by artist Ruth Maclennan and curator Ekaterina Sharova, commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and the Arctic Art Institute, with funding from the British Council Creative Commission on climate change, Arkhangelsk
2020, Garage Studios, Moscow
2014, URBAN TREASURES. Documentary video as a creative method of investigating urban space creatively, workshop by documentary directors Marina Razbezhkina and Denis Klebleyev, Strelka Institute, Moscow

TEACHING AND MENTORSHIP:
2022 – 2023 Video Freestyle Course, Strongnormal Art Residency, Derbent, Dagestan
2021 – 2022 Technologies and Artistic Statements in Post-Digital Reality, New Technologies in Contemporary Art Faculty, British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow