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by Alexei Kostroma

Alexei Kostroma (b. 1962) is a German-Russian artist, theorist, researcher. Graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1989). Since 2003, he has been living and working in Berlin. Since the early ...

by Rachel Rits-Volloch

The works selected for this exhibition embody Alexei Kostroma’s concept of the Organic Way – the artist’s dedication to the study of interrelations between natural and social laws. Working throughout his practice with eggshells, white feathers, figures ...

by Kim Berg

Why international artists are attracted to Germany and how they live and work there. We profile two prominent artists: Alexei Kostroma, German-Russian artist. Alexei Kostroma was born in the Russian city of Kostroma in 1962. As an ...

by Constanze Musterer

Alexei Kostroma analysiert ironisch, kritisch und philosophisch die Analogien von Kreisläufen, wie sie im menschlichen Handeln, in Gesellschaftsstrukturen, der Welt als Ganzes und der Natur in Erscheinung treten. In der Ausstellung Time of Piggy schafft er mit ...

by Gudrun Wurlitzer

Yellow is the color that speaks to Alexei Kostroma. But, of course, this is only one of the aspects that makes Kostroma so unique; eggshells, and feathers are also strong elements threaded through his work. In his ...

by Victoria Trunova

Visual artist Alexei Kostroma can by no means be accused of being a bore. In his work he explores both the material and theory of art from a range of perspectives. Kostroma left Russia over 10 years ...

by Sarah Tanguy

Alexei Kostroma seeks to place his work in an organic, all-encompassing context: “Nature and creative work have a common function of reproduction based on birth and death, self-organization and self-development. Thus creative development, so apparently similar to ...