Alexander Morozov (artist)

Alexander Alexandrovich Morozov (Russian: Александр Александрович Морозов; born 22 March 1974 in Voroshylovhrad, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a contemporary artist. Morozov's artistic practice revolves around the theme of the disappearance of cultural memory, with a focus on recreating lost masterpieces through the reconstruction of artifacts lost during military operations. The main medium used in their work is through the restoration of artworks and artifacts, aiming to establish continuity in memory disrupted by war or catastrophes.

Born

Alexander Alexandrovich Morozov

22 March 1974 (age 52)

Voroshylovhrad, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union

EducationSt. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture

KnownforPainting and installation art

MovementContemporary art

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Alexander Morozov
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Born	Alexander Alexandrovich Morozov (1974-03-22) 22 March 1974 (age 52) Voroshylovhrad, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Education	St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture
Known for	Painting and installation art
Movement	Contemporary art
Website	www.sashamorozov.ru

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Life

Education

Morozov attended Luhansk Art College (with an artistic practice in Lviv), Ukraine (1989–1994), the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, Russia, (1996–2002), and an educational program in ProArte Institute ‘Practicum. New Technology in Contemporary Art’ in St. Petersburg (1999–2000).

Morozov is known for the conceptual project Birds’ Flight Records, shown in Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, France, Germany. The project documented the timing and trajectories of birds flying in the surrounding landscape. Among his prominent projects are The Black Book and Icons series. The first explored the disappearance of cultural memory, recreating the artifacts lost during the war. The second focused on paintings with everyday subjects made in the egg tempera technique, characteristic of European art in the 15th–17th centuries.

He 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). He was a nominee for the Artaward International Strabag Prize (Austria, 2013), the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award (St Petersburg, 2013), and the 12th Kandinsky Prize with the nomination "Project of the Year" (2019). He won the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award (2018) in the Best Visual Project category. He was a finalist for the 13th Kandinsky Prize with the nomination "Project of the Year" for the project Dystopia Station (2021).

Selected projects

Particularly Slow Air. 2020

This work is an exhibition within an exhibition: an installation of the glass floats used by Estonian fishermen to keep their nets afloat. These floats come from the village of Nõmmküla, whose fishermen are famous for catching the biggest fish in Estonia’s recent history. The village is located on the island of Muhu, formerly used for Soviet missile bases. During their presence on the island the military forbade the fishermen to go to sea, as this was border territory.^[1]

Dystopia Station. 2020

With this piece, the artist explored the theme of memory and its reconstruction. A zeppelin assembled from office drawers is suspended in the Manege exhibition hall, a former garage of the NKVD. The aircraft references both the location and the biography of Nikolay Lanceray, who designed the project to convert the horse guards' riding hall into an OGPU garage while held in a “sharashka”, a special design bureau, from July 1931 to 28 June 1935. The filing drawer functions as a symbol of institutional memory, referencing the archival policies of the period. Personal records of NKVD garage drivers, who were part of the state repression apparatus and later became its subjects, are reported to remain stored in similar drawers.

Solo exhibitions

2025 — Lost Memories. In-gate Gallery, Brussels
2024 — No sand in the sky. Gallery DiX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris^[2]
2023 — Diary. Cité Internationale des arts. Paris, France
2021 — The rest. КultProject Gallery. Moscow, Russia
2019 — Birds Flight Records. Petersburg art space, Berlin
2019 — Railway Opera. Russian Railways Museum. St Petersburg
2018 — Akchim. coordinates, Perm State Art Gallery, Perm
2017 — Simple things, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2015 — Cosa Mentale, Marina Gisich Gallery, St Petersburg
2014 — ‘What Do You See?’. Artre.Flex Gallery, St Petersburg
2014 — ‘Garden’. Book Graphics Library, St Petersburg^[3]
2012 — ‘Factum’. Luda Express gallery in ‘New Holland’ open air art space, St Petersburg
2012 — ‘The Human Factor’. with Alexander Artemov, Algallery, St Petersburg
2012 — ‘Cinderella Effect’. Navicula Artis Gallery, St Petersburg
2010 — ‘Radiation’. Navicula Artis gallery, St Petersburg
2009 — ‘The Classical Garden of German Romanticism’. Botanical Museum, St Petersburg,

Selected group exhibitions

2024 — Yes, Fountain. Albatross space, Paris
2023 — Colonial Endurance. Detecting the Algorithm of Violence in Infrastructures], Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL^[4]^[5]
2023 — Là où nos mondes se touchent. Cité internationale des arts, Paris
2022 — Communication. Studio 44. Stockholm. SE^[6]^[7]
2022 — Futu Muhu 2022 / Flora & fauna. Kadriorg Gallery. Tallinn, Estonia
2022 —The Thinking Landscape, Museum of Moscow, Moscow. RU
2021 — Exhibition of nominees for the 13th Kandinsky Prize. MM0MA. Moscow
2021 — Intensive Places. Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Tallinn, Estonia
2020 — 2nd Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary art, Moscow, Russia
2020 — NEMOSKVA is Just Around the Corner. Exhibition Hall Manege, St Petersburg, Russia
2020 — State of Emergency. Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia^[8]
2018 — Portal Zaryadye, Shchusev Museum of Architecture, Moscou, RU^[9]
2015 — The 3rd Ural Industrial biennial of contemporary art. Artist-in-Residence Program. Ekaterinburg, Russia
2015 — Russia. Realism. XXI Century, The Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
2014 — ‘The Other Capital’, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2014 — ‘Black Envy’ in a Parallel Events of the Manifesta 10, Borey Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia^[10]
2014 — ‘Kommunal Ghetto’ as a part of ‘Apartment Art as Domestic Resistance’ exhibition Public programs Manifesta 10, St Petersburg, Russia
2014 — ‘Signal’, ‘KB Signal’, St Petersburg, Russia
2014 — ‘Saving Venice’, Marina Gisich Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia
2014 — ‘Perceiving Art’, St Petersburg State Library for the Blind, St Petersburg, Russiassia,^[11]
2013 — The 11th Baltic States Biennale of Graphic Art ‘Kaliningrad– Konigsberg 2013’. The Kaliningrad State Art Gallery. Kaliningrad, Russia
2013 — 2nd international public art festival Art Prospect Festival. St Petersburg, Russia
2013 — V Biennale ‘New ideas for the city.’ The Garden City. Green urbanism, The Museum of Urban Sculpture. St Petersburg, Russia
2013 — Season of St Petersburg Art. Navicula Artis. ‘Found in St Petersburg’. KultProekt gallery, Moscow, Russia
2012 — Baltic Biennale 2012, Rizzordi Art Foundation, St Petersburg, Russia
2012 — Nel Modo Russico, Ten 43 gallery, New York
2012 — ‘10⁻⁹’, 3H+K gallery, Pori, Finland
2001 — ‘Microfest 01 Pro’, Pro Arte Institute, St Petersburg, Russia
1999 — ‘Divietodisosta’. Artezero gallery, Milan, Italy

Gallery

Alexander Morozov. Lamp. 2014. Tempera on gessoed panel. 42 × 32 × 3 cm
Alexander Morozov. Work Trousers. 2014. Tempera on gessoed panel. 42 × 32 × 3 cm
Alexander Morozov. Cosa Mentale №2. 2015. Egg tempera on gessoed panel. 54 × 54 × 3 cm
Alexander Morozov. Cosa Mentale №8. 2018. Egg tempera on gessoed panel. 55 × 57 × 3 cm
Alexander Morozov. Cape Tobizina. 2016. Egg tempera on gessoed panel. 44 × 66 cm
Alexander Morozov. Ozerki. 2016. Egg tempera on gessoed panel. 53,5×42,8×3 cm