When I Am at Home Alone

New scholarships 2025: After the market, Saturday, 7 December 2024, 12:30 pm

In her videos, Alexandra Mitlyanskaya explores visual perception and the influence of time and duration of a work on the viewer. In her video ‘When I Am at Home Alone’, she creates a scenario between a pre-Christmas atmosphere and subtle horror. Dead objects suddenly start to move and figures with bicycles, prams, forks, hay bales, pigs, cows and feeding troughs in the living room develop a life of their own. ‘Ever since I was a child, I have suspected that the things around me have their own lives, memories, feelings and desires, that they can move and communicate with each other as soon as you turn your back.’

Born in Moscow, the artist studied at the Moscow Institute of Graphic Arts and received a scholarship to study at the Berlin University of the Arts in 1995. Alexandra Mitlyanskaya was a visiting artist at Tufts University, Boston, Harvard University, Cambridge and the Parsons School of Design in New York. In 2011, she was the winner of the ‘Now&After’ video festival. In 2017, she was nominated for the Kandinsky Prize. Her works are represented in the permanent collections of the Hermitage Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, as well as in the collections of the Otten Art Space and the Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2019, Alexandra Mityanskaya was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship. She lives in Moscow.

Alexandra Mitlyanskaya will be a guest of the Schleswig-Holstein Künstlerhaus otte1 in the 3rd quarter of 2025.

Be curious.

Admission is free.