ANDREI DMITRENKO
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Born in 1990 in Vladivostok, Russia
Based in Leipzig, Germany
Andrei Dmitrenko is an interdisciplinary artist based in Leipzig, Germany. He studied Graphic Design at Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok and Contemporary Art and Theory at the BAZA Institute in Moscow. He is currently studying Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB), in the Class for Installation and Space with Prof. Joachim Blank.
His practice engages with memory, nostalgia, melancholy, and oblivion. He explores how the past persists in the present — not as a coherent narrative, but as fragments. These scattered fragments are assembled into artificial forms that attempt to capture what has already been lost.
He works across video, installation, photography, graphics, textiles, sculpture, performance and text. Specializing in mixed media, he explores contrasting textures and material qualities. These contrasts are not always immediately visible, as he often introduces a subtle disconnection between his interventions and the original properties of archival materials.
Dmitrenko strives to create a universe infused with layered meanings and melancholic memories. Within a delicate balance between poetry and visual narrative, he creates a tension between documentary and fiction, celebrating materials and textures across a wide spectrum of interpretations.
EDUCATION
2026 — present Class for Installation and Space with Prof. Joachim Blank, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB), Leipzig, Germany
2024 — 2026 Media Art Foundation Course with Prof. Eli Cortiñas, Prof. Stine Marie Jacobsen, Prof. Mareike Bernien, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB), Leipzig, Germany
2019 — 2021 Institute of Contemporary Art and Theory BAZA, Moscow, Russia
2008 — 2014 Far Eastern Federal University, Graphic Design, Vladivostok, Russia
SELECTED SOLO/DUO SHOWS
2026 Scattered beads, Dungeons of HGB, Leipzig, Germany
2022 I am both the wound and the sword. I am a delicate flower that has broken through this steel, Alisa Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 Shimmering cloud, Art Gallery Arka, Vladivostok, Russia
2021 Embrace, almost envelop, duo show with Kirill Mikhailin, Alisa Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020 Fragile depths, FFTN, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2019 You’re like a noise in this little landscape, Center for Contemporary Art Zarya, Vladivostok, Russia
2018 Wet stones thrown into the water column, Art Gallery Arka, Vladivostok, Russia
2017 Signals, Center for Contemporary Art Zarya, Vladivostok, Russia
2016 Memory of dust, Art Gallery Arka, Vladivostok, Russia
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2026 Inter(-)Views, HGB Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
2026 Uncovering Timelines, HGB, Leipzig, Germany
2025 Haunted II | Outside, Mulhouse, Alsace, France
2025 Ex-æquo, ChezKit, Pantin, France
2025 Terms and Conditions — Policing Images project, in cooperation with the Harun Farocki Institut Berlin, Leipzig, Germany
2025 Mignolino, Pinky Space, Dresden, Germany
2024 I write your name, Alisa Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2023 Q*, Shtab Space, Moscow, Russia
2022 The poetics of space or house, as a place woven of poetic images, dreams and memories, Stary Oskol, Russia
2022 7.753:forest, Center for Contemporary Art Chudo, Kursk, Russia
2022 Vol. 1 now or ever, Talking Cure, Moscow, Russia
2021 Transfer. Projection. Processing, Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod. Winzavod.Open project, Moscow, Russia
2020 Dream of the down, Center for Contemporary Art Zarya, Vladivostok, Russia
2020 Closed fish exhibition. Reconstruction, Voznesensky center, Moscow, Russia
2020 Support group, Special project of the Moscow Biennale for Young Art, in cooperation with Cube Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2019 Morskaya, Center for Contemporary Art Zarya, Vladivostok, Russia
2019 Cosmoscow Contemporary Art Fair, Center for Contemporary Art Zarya booth, Moscow, Russia
2017 Environment, Center for Contemporary Art Zarya, Vladivostok, Russia
2017 Noise through a dream, Vladivostok International Biennale of Visual Arts, Vladivostok, Russia
2017 Rebels at the edge, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2016 New poverty, in cooperation with Vladivostok School of Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia
2015 Sol, Art Museum of Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia
2014 Funicular 5, Museum of Modern Art Artetage, Vladivostok, Russia
READINGS/PERFORMANCES
2025 Gazing at the Stars, performative reading of the poem Three Hours for the Dog, Juri Gagarin Sternwarte, Eilenburg, Germany
2026 As If a Tiny Hoof Turned Me Into a Goat, HGB Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
RESIDENCIES
2017 Center for Contemporary Art Zarya, Vladivostok, Russia
2024 Hellerau, Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Dresden, Germany
SELECTED LINKS
https://spectate.ru/fishmen-expo/
https://www.ofluxo.net/embrace-almost-envelop-kirill-mikhailin-and-andrey-dmitrenko-at-alisa-gallery-moscow/
https://russianartarchive.net/en/catalogue/document/L58050
Works are in collections of Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Art Gallery Arka, Alisa Gallery, Center for Contemporary Art Zarya, Art Museum of Far Eastern Federal University, as well as in a number of private collections.
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