Alina Kugush is an interdisciplinary artist based in St Petersburg. In her practice, she works with a wide range of media, from drawing to installation and performance. Kugush is interested in exploring the limits and transformations of self. She is a participant of SHARPPS (School of Performative Modeling and Active Drawing), North-7 art group collaborative project.
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House of Bugs (still from a GIF-animation), 2021. For the Vanishing Points project, MYTH Gallery, St Petersburg. From Franz Kafka to bugs in coding, the work brings together the many associations we have with these creatures
Fly Round, 2021. Peter and Paul Fortress, St Petersburg. The work takes you on a route of transformation from a larva into a moth, while reflecting on transitions between media and between the physical and the digital. Photo: Ksenia Sytina
In the Window: ab ovo usque ad mala (still from a GIF-animation). From the Fly Round project, 2021. Curator: Lizaveta Matveeva, photo: Ksenia Sytina
Plague, 2021. For the House of Bugs project. Photo: Alexander Veryovkin
Mediation of Vanishing Points, joint exhibition with Alexander Veryovkin, in character of an insehuman (insect+human), 2021. MYTH Gallery. Photo: Svetlana Sidorova
Mediation of Vanishing Points, 2021. MYTH Gallery. Photo: @forgetsea
A Devouring Frog, 2021. Photo: Irina Kolpachnikova
Russian Landscape, 2021. Landscape with recognisable late-Soviet artefacts, where the rules and expectations are breaking down. Photo: Irina Kolpachnikova
Crush, 2021. For the Vanishing Points project, MYTH Gallery. Encoded in the work are cornflower, carnation, and edelweiss, which the artist’s crush named as their favourite flowers. Photo: Irina Kolpachnikova
Objects of Shining: Sea Horse, 2021
Untitled, 2020. From the Transformers series
Queen, 2020. From the Saved Images series. In this project, the artist creates drawings after images found on the Internet which she wanted to “save” and make her own
Golden God, 2020. rom the Saved Images series. After a black-and-white recording of the dancer Makhmud Esambayev performing an Indian dance
From the Magic Tablecloth performance, 2019. Street Art Museum, St Petersburg. Photo: Sergey Savelyev
