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![Forgotten Artworks]( "Forgotten Artworks")
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![In-tent-gible]( "In-tent-gible")
infoA still image from a short movie; temporary installation in a desert
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![Dreams of the River, day 2]( "Dreams of the River, day 2")
infoA site-specific performance by the Elbe river
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![Dreams of the River, day 1]( "Dreams of the River, day 1")
infoA site-specific poetic writing workshop and a participatory performance by the Elbe river
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![In-Tent-Gible]( "In-Tent-Gible")
infoVideo and textile work at the Festival of Future Deserts, Magdeburg
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![Pinecone, Party, Loss, and Fire]( "Pinecone, Party, Loss, and Fire")
infoA textile artwork (Lohra See) exploring dreaming as a public act. Visualisation the experience of dreamers' group at LIOS residency, the connection of dreams and the sleepers' surroundings.
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Fragment of a movie on development of a language in an open living space; music collaboration with sound artist Kim Ho
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![Sojourn]( "Sojourn")
infoResidency experimentation
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![Sojourn]( "Sojourn")
infoResidency experimentation
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![Heal]( "Heal")
infoResearch on wild plants of the Hague, alternative naming and symbolism.
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![Recolory]( "Recolory")
infoParticipatory performance around natural dyes and visitor's stories, changing space with colour
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A fragment of a 5-minute movie, a part of Inner Weather project.
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![Inner Weather]( "Inner Weather")
infoSpace for personal time-keeping. Movie, cyclical lunar calendar, pieces of selenite
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![Inner Weather]( "Inner Weather")
infoSpace for personal time-keeping. Movie, workbook, text on the wall.
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![Calm Habitat]( "Calm Habitat")
infoMaster Thesis
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![Inner Weather]( "Inner Weather")
infoSpace for personal time-keeping. Pieces of selenite, scent, silver mirrors, video.
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![Inner Weather]( "Inner Weather")
infoSilver mirrors, changing transparency after lunar phases
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![Lunar - wave, book]( "Lunar - wave, book")
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![Lovely Flood]( "Lovely Flood")
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infoActivities of "homing", 1: arranging collected objects. Projection during the exhibition.
Elina Alekseeva is a Russian-born artist based in the Hague, The Netherlands. Her practice unfolds her interest in the intimate and reciprocal connection between people and their surroundings. The recurring topic of her work is the notion of home in its most broad understanding. This interest comes from curiosity about the position of human beings as a creature between nature and culture, who is permanently in the process of finding a place in the world through the actions of re-locating and homing.
With a background in literature, linguistics and textile design, in her work she looks for an interplay of material study, participatory projects, photography, and installation. Often starting from intuition and personal immersion, she searches for unexpected connections with the environment, landscape storytelling, and semi-fictional scenarios.
Elina is a part of a cultural incubator SeeLab; and a part of an international duo with Gloria Frigerio (IT), which creates site-specific performances and experiences. The collective’s ongoing research focuses on the crossing of ecology, myth and poetic writing, as well as challenging the limitations of the physical distances, and experimenting with new methodologies of collaboration.
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Curriculum vitae
Opleidingen
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2022 - 2023Fragrance composition Mediamatic, Amsterdam
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2021 - 2021being in (a) place Onomatopee & Anna Maria Fink, Einhoven
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2018 - 2020Design Research, MA Industrial Design Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Diploma behaald
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2015 - 2016Wearable technology KABK
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2014 - 2014Sound, listening, recording KABK
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2014 - 2014Ceramics Hoeboer Pottery, The Hague
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2014 - 2016Photography Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag
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2012 - 2016Textile Design, BA Textile and Fashion Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Diploma behaald
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2011 - 2012Voorbereidend jaar Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Diploma behaald
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2006 - 2011Literatuur en Taalkunde, BA, cum laude Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia Diploma behaald
tentoonstellingen
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2023Forgotten Atrworks SeeLab The Hague, Nederland A group exhibition of 19 SeeLab artists, co-curated by Elina Alekseeva and Catelijne Boele Groep
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2023Radical Symbiosis: The Social Life of Microbes RADIUS Delft, Nederland Project Cattails and Paper mountains, a part of the exhibition, is a poetic exploration of places, related to the initial discovery of microbes by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. The textile vitrines, housing the findings from the actual locations, refer to Antoni's actual profession of a textile merchant, and a value of serendipitous discoveries. Project kindly supported by Stroom SPOT grant. www.radius-cca.org/en/exhibitions/radical-symbiosis-social-life-with-microbes Groep
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2022Festival of Future Deserts Salbker Wasserturm Magdeburg, Duitsland The result of LIOS Labs residency around the topics of desertification and ecology, in the water tower and the surroundings. The exhibited works: a movie with a binaural composition, produced with materials collected in Bledowska desert, in collaboration with a composer Kim Ho, and two textile artworks. onearth.io/oa27/ Groep
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2022Sojourn SeeLab the Hague A result of a group residency with artists Mio Fujimaki and Tatiana Kolganova. Reflecting on the space itself, Elina's part of the experimentation and the exhibition focused on the natural light of the exhibition space as an active participant, coming in interaction with its visitors. www.seelab.nl Groep
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2022Squeeze Crush Press Blush W139 Amsterdam, Nederland "Another Sea", a short movie screened together with a selection of one-minute films, in several locations (W139 and ROZENSTRAAT in Amsterdam, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen) theoneminutes.org/series/squeeze-crush-press-blush Groep
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2021Recolory SeeLab The Hague, Nederland A participatory experiment by Jorick de Quaasteniet, Anouck Hus and Elina Alekseeva. Multi-sensory project, transforming kitchen waste, cultivated and wild plants into a growing textile artwork, guided by the visitors' stories. www.seelab.nl/program/2021/recolory-a-dyeing-experiment Groep
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2019Exploring Materials and Materiality Veem gebouw Eindhoven, Nederland Together with TextileLab Amsterdam, Heal was is a selection of student projects, presented in a collective exhibition under the topic of well-being of people and the planet. waag.org/en/article/waag-dutch-design-week-2019 Groep
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2019Exploring New Paths in the Textile Industry Waag Amstardam, Nederland Collaboration between TextileLab Amsterdam at Waag and MID students. Heal was a part of talks and an exhibition on students' artistic research, speculative design and sustainability. www.flickr.com/photos/waagsociety/albums/72157704059530172 Groep
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2016Exposed De Electriciteitsfabriek Den Haag, Nederland A 10-day exhibition with final works of Textile and Fashion department of KABK. Project Landmarks was presented as an atmospheric immersive space with video and photo projections, illustrating sense of home through 6 universal activities. www.electriciteitsfabriek.nl/agenda/exposed Groep
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2015Exposed De Electriciteitsfabriek Den Haag, Nederland An exhibition with a selected works of Textile department, KABK. Photography, objects. Groep
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2014Back Stage on Stage Ventura Lambrate Milan, Italië Process of making, as an open performance, playful live textile experiments. Textile support for graphic designer Duygu Ölcek, for the project Beauty is Cruel. 7 day exhibition. Groep
projecten
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2022
Pinecone, Party, Loss, and Fire Autonomous Bledowska Desert, Polen A textile artwork made with Lorha See collective, exploring dreams and dreaming as a public act, and in relation to a surrounding landscape.
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2022
Dreams of the River Autonomous Magdeburg, Duitsland With Lorha See collective, a performance of making a site-specific textile artwork and an experimental publication produced along the Elbe river. A knotted cotton net hammock placed in the landscape, as a place for dreaming with the river about its possible futures together.
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2021
when nothing seems to transpire Autonomous The Hague / Cologne, Nederland elinaalekseeva.nl/when-nothing-seems-to-transpire A site-specific research of embodied attention practice with dance artist Inna Lipovets (Germany), in a forest of Königsforst, Gemany.
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2020
Inner Weather KABK The Hague, Nederland elinaalekseeva.nl/inner-weather Final Master design research project, Inner Weather addresses the linear time system. I wonder about an embodied, personal sense of time that constantly shifts according to outer factors in the environments, and can't be limited to the number-based, invented tradition of timekeeping. With examples, like the moon and its phases, I wonder, how we can communicate time in new ways. A project was an atmospheric environment in which visitors could watch and listen to 3 stories, and interact with a sensory calendar in which lunar phases were metaphorically translated into scents with a different character.
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2020
Lunar, waves KABK The Hague, Nederland elinaalekseeva.nl/lunar-waves An audio documentary: women who sail, surf, and dance, tell their stories about the time, water, body, and the lunar calendar. 14 min.
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2020
We Are Ocean, Water Walk Green Art Lab Alliance Various, Nederland artport-project.org/portfolio/we-are-ocean-water-walk/ A water-walk video, for an international collective artwork.
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2019
Lovely flood KABK The Hague, Nederland elinaalekseeva.nl/lovely-flood A first-person speculative future story that takes place on the (former) seaside of the Hague. Text, series of cyanotype prints.
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2016
Landmarks KABK The Hague, Nederland elinaalekseeva.nl/landmarks Landmarks explores the shifting idea of “home” in the time of extensive relocations. The project addresses home without a connection to any place of a fixed point, detached from houses and interiors, but as a process of "homing" - personal activities and little sensory reminders of this feeling. With objects and photography, it addresses 6 universal activities that carry a temporary sense of home, anywhere; and wonders, how little is needed to create “home”.
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2016
Traces KABK The Hague elinaalekseeva.nl/traces A student photography project, visually exploring co-dependence and co-development of people and places. Dance improvisation, photography, publication in "4".
Internationale uitwisselingen / Artist-in-residencies
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2022LIOS Labs Błędowska Desert, Polen LIOS labs Arts of Ecology, a platform for learning, creating and exchanging knowledge and regenerative practices. lios.io
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2022Festival of Future Deserts Magdeburg, Duitsland Self-organised micro-residency with the international Lorha See collective. The work developed during the residency included writing workshops for the visitors of the Festival of Future Deserts, and temporary installations in the landscape.
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2022SeeLab The Hague , Nederland A collaborative residency between Tatiana Kolganova, Mio Fujimaki and Elina Alekseeva, experimenting with the ways of producing an artwork within a short stay, and the space itself. www.seelab.nl
Aankopen/werken in collecties
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2022formations of the cup and the rock Moon Gallery Wassenaar , Nederland Mineral sculpture of selenite, shaped by drops of water; for the gallery format of works that fit 1 cubic centimetre.
publicaties
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2020Calm Habitat Boek self-published Elina Alekseeva The Hague, Nederland elinaalekseeva.nl/calm-habitat Master Thesis; Design research, exploring the contradiction between our basic need for calm and safe places, and technologically flooded "safe" enviroments.
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2020Anew Catalogus MID Group of authors The Hague, Nederland www.kabk.nl/nieuws/anew-3-magazine-by-the-master-industrial-design A third issue of the Anew magazine by Master Industrial Design, KABK. The issue represents a collection of projects, intervies and images, representing the research-driven projects.
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2020lunar, waves Boek self-published Elina Alekseeva The Hague , Nederland elinaalekseeva.nl/inner-weather A work-book for intuitive and sensory time-keeping, according to the lunar calendar. Softcover, 40 pages.
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2016"4" Catalogus Textile and Fashion, KABK Group of authors The Hague, Nederland An annual magazine of Fashion and Textile department of KABK, presenting a selection of works of students. Projects: Landmarks, Traces
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2016Wayfaring Boek self-published Elina Alekseeva The Hague, Nederland elinaalekseeva.nl/wayfaring Bachelor Thesis; Research-based writing on how the idea of home evolves in the time of extensive relocation. Nominated for BA Thesis Award.
Prijzen en stipendia
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2021Experiment en Onderzoek Subsidie Gemeente Den Haag The Hague, Nederland The Hague Municipality subsidy for developing a research project Recolory in Scheveningen
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20193d place Brightlands, innovation and research Geleen, Nederland Third prize for the Sea-Solve / lovely flood, within a sustainability-driven student collaboration with Brightlands.
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2016Nominee Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag The Hague, Nederland Bachelor Thesis Award
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2016Nominee Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag The Hague, Nederland Textile and Fashion Department Award
artistieke nevenactiviteiten
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2023 - 2023Dying Structures (With Gloria Frigerio) - Reading at Words Off the Page, Amsterdam
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2023 - 2023Ecopoetry group at SeeLab Loopt nog
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2021 - 2021Photographs for Meeting Grounds publication
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2021 - 2021So, what about the Moon? - A talk at A Mic of One’s Own, The Writer’s Guide to the Galaxy; Kunstinstituut Melly
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2021 - 2021So, what about the Moon? - Reading at Words Off the Page, Trixie, during The Hague Contemporary Art Weekend
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2019 - 2019Assistance in organization and carrying-out of workshops and presentation of Moon Gallery at ESA Open Day, ESTEC, Noordwijk
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2017 - 2018Sustainability-focused textile workshops (natural dyes, weaving) at Momo Pottery studio, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
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2017 - 2017Silent Wonderlust, commissioned video work - direction and production, for Exposed, De Electriciteitsfabriek, The Hague
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2017 - 2017Commissioned article on slow art and design for Heim Magazine, Russia
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2016 - 2017Experimental materials and assistance with photography for Oltmans van Niekerk, research and innovation agency, Delft