Alexander Morozov is a Russian artist of Ukrainian origin. In 2002, he graduated from the St Petersburg Academy of Arts — Ilya Repin Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He is a graduate of the PRO ARTE Foundation’s School for Young Artists (2001).
Alexander Morozov is interested in art that eschews formal boundaries, to become philosophy, anthropology, sociology and even life. Many of his works are dedicated to the traumatic consequences of Stalinist policies and the phenomenon of erased memory around the implementation of this regime.
After 2017, most of his projects have been related to the study of state violence. In the installation at the 3rd Ural Industrial Biennale, “Registration. Between Contemplation and Action” the artist recreated the room of an NKVD worker in the Iset Hotel (the former NKVD hostel). In 2019, the artist created a sonic installation at the Museum-Apartment of Russian historian Lev Gumilyov. In the same year, he created a multi-channel immersive sound installation Railway Opera comprising sounds and noises in the museum’s Stolypin carriage.
He has participated in the 11th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale (2015), the 3rd Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015), the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015), and the parallel and public programmes for Manifesta 10, the European Biennale of Contemporary Art (2014, St Petersburg). Nominee for the Art award International Strabag Prize (Austria, 2013), the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize (St Petersburg, 2013), Kandinsky Prize in the category Project of the Year (2019). He was the winner of the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize (2019) in the Best Visual Project category. He is a member of the “Parasite” group. He lives and
works in Paris.
Alexander Morozov is interested in art that eschews formal boundaries, to become philosophy, anthropology, sociology and even life. Many of his works are dedicated to the traumatic consequences of Stalinist policies and the phenomenon of erased memory around the implementation of this regime.
After 2017, most of his projects have been related to the study of state violence. In the installation at the 3rd Ural Industrial Biennale, “Registration. Between Contemplation and Action” the artist recreated the room of an NKVD worker in the Iset Hotel (the former NKVD hostel). In 2019, the artist created a sonic installation at the Museum-Apartment of Russian historian Lev Gumilyov. In the same year, he created a multi-channel immersive sound installation Railway Opera comprising sounds and noises in the museum’s Stolypin carriage.
He has participated in the 11th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale (2015), the 3rd Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015), the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015), and the parallel and public programmes for Manifesta 10, the European Biennale of Contemporary Art (2014, St Petersburg). Nominee for the Art award International Strabag Prize (Austria, 2013), the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize (St Petersburg, 2013), Kandinsky Prize in the category Project of the Year (2019). He was the winner of the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize (2019) in the Best Visual Project category. He is a member of the “Parasite” group. He lives and
works in Paris.
ALEXANDER MOROZOV
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