Alena Tereshko
Artist / Helsinki, Finland
Education2024– The Academy of Fine Arts (Uniarts, Helsinki), Master’s program at the Time and Space department
2011–2013: Pro Arte «School for young artists», Pro Arte Foundation, St. Petersburg
2007–
2013: Stieglitz St.Petersburg State Academy of Art & Industry, St. Petersburg, (monumental art department, subject specialism "monumental painting")Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions2024 –
Garden of Hands, Myymälä2 gallery, Helsinki
2022 – Home Odyssey, Yö gallery, Helsinki
2022 – Snow and Sun (with Ilkka Pitkänen), Albatross cultural space, Helsinki2020 – Why F, Borey gallery
, St.Petersburg2019 – SuperPosition, gallery
NAME, St.Petersburg2019 – This Apple, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow2018 – Leib & Korper, Laboradoria Intimnoe Mesto, St. Petersburg2017 – Unforeseen, Inner Voice gallery
, St. Petersburg 2015 – The Conditional Field, Taiga art center
, St. PetersburgSelected Group Exhibitions / Screenings / Performances2025 –
Kuvan Kevät (MFA degree show), Kuva Tila, Helsinki
2025 –
In/Visible: The Changing Shape of Womanhood, Gallery De L’Est, Compiegne (France)
2024 –
Perfectly Inelastic Collision, Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki
2024 –
Modulations: Sound, Light, Movement, Pavilions of the Mikhailovsky Castle, St. Petersburg
2023 –
Out of Office, Asbestos art space, Helsinki
2023 –
The Beginning — A New Abyss, Huuto gallery, Helsinki
2023 –
Organic, Galleria Longa & Fönari, Helsinki
2022 –
Home Odyssey, Process wall exhibition and performance, gallery Myymälä 2, Helsinki
2022 –
Yö-Fest vol. 2, Yö Gallery, Helsinki
2022 – Communication, Borey Galley, St. Petersburg / Studio 44, Stockholm
2022 –
Parazit Group. Searching for the Trained Spectator, Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg
2021 – Yö-Fest vol. 1.4, gallery Yö, Helsinki
2021 – performance
Crime of Passion within Unusual Companionship, Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki
2021 – You, inter alia, online project
2021 –
Millennials in Contemporary Russian Art, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2020 –
NEMOSKVA (MORE THAN MOSCOW), The Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg
2020 –
Nevsky Express, Museum Art4, Moscow
2020 –
( ), gallery Egorka, St. Petersburg
2019 –
Negotiators, XIII Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Ploschad Mira Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2019 –
Oh, Zin, You Are the World!, The Library of Book Graphics, St. Petersburg
2019 – Project
"Jubiley", Borey gallery, St. Petersburg
2018 –
No Pastoral, Book Graphic Library, St. Petersburg
2018 –
VII Independent Contemporary Art Fair "Saint-Dogvellburg", Sevkabel Port, St. Petersburg
2018 –
Bergman. Metamorphosis, Solyanka gallery, Moscow
2018 –
Exhibition of Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award Nominees 2017, Kuryokhin Center, St. Petersburg
2018 –
Om Jag Bara Kunde, Köttinspektionen, Uppsala, Sweden
2018 –
Olympus, Borey gallery, St. Petersburg
2017 –
Between Fatigue:Towards the New Forms of Life, Parallel program of the 4th Ural Biennale, Palace of Culture for Railway Workers, Ekaterinburg
2017 –
Worldbuilding, Special project of the 4th Ural Biennial, Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhny Tagil
2017 –
Russian Puzzle, Novy Museum, St.Petersburg
2017 –
Nepokorennye Prospect, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2017 –
Pieter Bruegel. The Upside Down World, Digital Art Center ArtPlay, Moscow
2017 –
Art Fair Suomi, with group Parasit, Helsinki
2017 –
Journey to the Center of the Earth, Digital Art Center ArtPlay, Moscow
2017 –
Art on the Highway, Kuryokhin Center, St.Petersburg
2016 –
Cinema of Dreams, Ground Hodynka gallery, Moscow
2016 –
Wave Theory, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2016 –
My Self. Self-portrait in the Collection of the Russian Museum, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2016 –
Psycho, Parallel program of the Moscow Biennale of Young Art, The Centre for creative industry (CCI) FABRIKA, Moscow
2016 –
The Human Condition, Borey gallery, St. Petersburg
2016 –
The Buds, Liljevalchs hubb, Stockholm
2016 –
5 rooms. The Most Interesting Thing Inside, Loft Project Etagi, St. Petersburg
2015 –
Soft#Norm, Artplay, Moscow
2015 –
A-art F-feminism," SRI "DAR", Moscow
2015 –
10 new Bad Works, Borey gallery, St. Petersburg
2015 –
In the Absence of the Artist, gallery Sever-7, St. Petersburg
2015 –
Supermarket, (with group Parazit), Stockholm
2015 –
Sub observationem, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2015 –
Try on, Loft Project Etagi, St. Petersburg
2014 –
Other Capital, Museum of Moscow, Moscow
2014 –
The Black Envy, Parallel program of Manifesta 10, Borey, St.Petersburg
2014 –
Red Eye Effect, FotoDepartament gallery, St. Petersburg
2014 –
Love Is... , Nepokorenniе 17 Studios, St. Petersburg
2013 –
Lost in Translation, Special project of the 55th Venice Biennial, Venice
2013 –
Diary of Observations, gallery ART-reFLEX, St. Petersburg
2013 –
Parasit +, WINZAVOD CCA and PERMM, Perm, Moscow
2013 –
Why do we go to the exhibition, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
2013 –
Beautiful, gallery RuArts, Moscow
2013 – J
ubilee, gallery Borey. St. Petersburg
2012 –
Saturnalia, Tbilisi, Batumi
Awards / Grants2025 – Johanna Ehrnrooth Prize. The University of Arts Helsinki Foundation
2024 – BGF scholarship (Bourse du Gouvernement Français) for Cite Internationale des Arts residency
2024 – working grant (2 months), The Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2022 – Corona grant, The Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2021 – Artkommunalka Artist Residency, Kolomna, Russia2017 – Sergei Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Prize (nomination "Best Media Object")Residencies2024 – Cite Internationale des Arts residency, programm 2-12, Paris
2023 – Garage Studios Artist Residency, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2022 – Biostation Residency, Koltushi, Russia
2021 – Art-Kommunalka Residency, Kolomna, Russia
2022 – Villa Eläintarha Residency, via Quantum Critic 2021 project, Helsinki
2019 – IASPIS international programme for Visual and Applied Artists, Umeå, Sweden
2015 – Residence Nordland Kulturesenter, Bodø, Norway
Festivals 2025 – Aletheia Festival, Raseborg, Finland
2023 – Gyumri Art Week, Gyumri,
Armenia2023 – Aletheia Festival, Raseborg, Finland2022 – FERMENT, CYFEST-14, Darlington, UK / Yerevan
2021 – The VIDEOFORMES festival, Clermont-Ferrand,
France2021 – The 13th CYBERFEST, St. Petersburg / Dartington, UK
2019 –
Lookforward, Fort "Konstantin", Kronshtadt
2018, 2017 – Art Prospect Festival, St.Petersburg2016 – The View From the Other Window, program of video art of the International Film Festival of Andrei Tarkovsky's «The Mirror», MMOMA, Moscow2016 – 62nd Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, Germany2016 – Bang Boom III festival, Northampton, UK2016 – VI International Festival of screen and media arts, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2016 – The 9th CYBERFEST, St. Petersburg / Pratt Institute, New York
2015 – Supermarket (with Parazit Group), Stockholm
2015 – 61st Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, Germany
2014 – CYBERFEST, Luda Gallery, St. Petersburg / NY Media Center, New York
2013 –
Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum Festival, Museum of Urban Electrical Transport, St. Petersburg
Collections Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow NationalCentre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow V. Smirnov & K. Sorokin Foundation, Moscow, Russia Video archive Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen Private collectionsIn the media Helsingin Sanomat. Poimimme Kuvataide akatemian lopputyö näyttelystä viisi taiteilijaa, joita kannattaa seurata
(in Finnish), 2025
https://www.hs.fi/taide/Long Play. Kuvan Keväässä ei erotu yksittäistä trendiä mutta se tarjoaa koskettavia ja omaehtoisia teoksia sille, joka ei kiirehdi ohi (in Finnish)
https://www.longplay.fi/kulttuuri/Garage archive, interview (in Russian)https://russianartarchive.net/IASPIS (the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's international programme for Visual and Applied Artists) website. Alena Tereshko tells about her practice (in English).https://www.konstnarsnamnden.se/The CYLAND Video Archive, composed of video works of the artists who participated in Cyfest festivals that had been held by CYLAND Media Art Lab since 2007 (in English).http://videoarchive.cyland.org/Artkommunalka (artist residency in Kolomna, Moscow region) website (in Russian).https://artkommunalka.com/Blinkvideo, a platform for research of video art, performance and multimedia installations. Artists' presentations (in English).https://blinkvideo.de/Artuzel Journal. Interview with Alena Tereshko on the opening of her exhibition in Moscow Museum of Modern Art in 2019 (in Russian).http://artuzel.com/Masters Journal. Alena Tereshko tells about her practice (in Russian).http://journal.masters-project.ru/AroundArt Journal. Article about Alena Tereshko and her exhibition in Moscow Museum of Modern Art in 2019 (in Russian).http://aroundart.org/Publications: The Calvert Journal. Curated selection
Your definitive who's who in the new generation of Russian visual artists (in English)
The Calvert Journal.
Troubled Youth. Russia video artists address the problems of a generation (in English)