Alisa Smorodina’s practice unfolds at the intersection of the human and the instrumental, addressing how the mechanized logic of contemporary reality relates to social and technological forms of regulating the body. These interactions manifest as shifts in perception, corporeality, and psyche, understood as effects of disciplinary and medial structures.
Smorodina creates objects that possess their own gravity and resonate with the viewer’s body. In her work, the body is not presented as a neutral category but as a site where questions of sensitivity, materiality, and social construction intersect. Materials are treated as active agents through which tension emerges between opposing states – mechanized and manual, industrial and organic, material and sensorial.
Education
2015 – 2018 The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, Moscow
2012 Central Saint Martins, London, Seaun Myers’ experimental and mixed media printmaking course
2008 – 2010 British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow
Solo shows
2023 Bitten By Lilith. Devyatnadtsat, Moscow 2025 Avoidant Attachment. Devyatnadtsat, Moscow
Selected group shows
2025 Liminal Zones. Museum and Exhibition Centre, Ivanovo
2025 It's Just a Mystery. MMOMA, Moscow
2025 Cascade of (Un)Fulfilled Desires. The Third Place, Saint Petersburg
2024 Inside The Dollhouse. Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow
2024 I'm not a robot. Cube, Moscow
2024 Dungeons and Dragons. Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow
2023 Morning Routine. Smena Contemporary Art Centre, Kazan
2023 The last off-site show on the Earth at Plague Space and everywhere. Plague Space, Krasnodar
2023 Dark Room. Fabrika Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow
2021 White forest on the right. Peredelkino Art Centre
2021 Assuming Distance: Speculations, Fakes, and Predictions in the Age of the Coronacene. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2021 Post-Speculative Design: Decolonising the Future. Electromuseum, Moscow
2019 Animal Internet. Khodynka Gallery, Moscow
2019 Body: Digital Boundaries. Electromuseum, Moscow
2019 Dysmorphophobia. MMOMA, Moscow
2018 Going Unconscious / Trembling / With Eyes Open / I See You / Surrender. HSE Gallery, Moscow
2018 Matter of Horror. Solyanka Gallery, Moscow
2018 Test Group. Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow
2017 Post-Reality Show. Fabrika Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow
2016 Technoart: The Art with Open Source. Electromuseum, Moscow
2016 The 10th Anniversary of Rodchenko Art School. Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
2016 Yami-Ichi Black Market. The Polytechnic Museum, Moscow
2015 What Grows from Below. Electrozavod Gallery, Moscow
Residencies
2025 ColLab, The Vaults Centre for Artistic Production, GES-2, Moscow 2024 – 2025 Winzavod Open Studios, Winzavod, Moscow
2023 – 2024 Garage Studios, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2021 'Udar' residency in Prison Castle, Borovsk
2021 – 2021 Garage Studios, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2015 – 2018 The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, Moscow
2012 Central Saint Martins, London, Seaun Myers’ experimental and mixed media printmaking course
2008 – 2010 British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow
Solo shows
2023 Bitten By Lilith. Devyatnadtsat, Moscow 2025 Avoidant Attachment. Devyatnadtsat, Moscow
Selected group shows
2025 Liminal Zones. Museum and Exhibition Centre, Ivanovo
2025 It's Just a Mystery. MMOMA, Moscow
2025 Cascade of (Un)Fulfilled Desires. The Third Place, Saint Petersburg
2024 Inside The Dollhouse. Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow
2024 I'm not a robot. Cube, Moscow
2024 Dungeons and Dragons. Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow
2023 Morning Routine. Smena Contemporary Art Centre, Kazan
2023 The last off-site show on the Earth at Plague Space and everywhere. Plague Space, Krasnodar
2023 Dark Room. Fabrika Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow
2021 White forest on the right. Peredelkino Art Centre
2021 Assuming Distance: Speculations, Fakes, and Predictions in the Age of the Coronacene. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2021 Post-Speculative Design: Decolonising the Future. Electromuseum, Moscow
2019 Animal Internet. Khodynka Gallery, Moscow
2019 Body: Digital Boundaries. Electromuseum, Moscow
2019 Dysmorphophobia. MMOMA, Moscow
2018 Going Unconscious / Trembling / With Eyes Open / I See You / Surrender. HSE Gallery, Moscow
2018 Matter of Horror. Solyanka Gallery, Moscow
2018 Test Group. Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow
2017 Post-Reality Show. Fabrika Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow
2016 Technoart: The Art with Open Source. Electromuseum, Moscow
2016 The 10th Anniversary of Rodchenko Art School. Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
2016 Yami-Ichi Black Market. The Polytechnic Museum, Moscow
2015 What Grows from Below. Electrozavod Gallery, Moscow
Residencies
2025 ColLab, The Vaults Centre for Artistic Production, GES-2, Moscow 2024 – 2025 Winzavod Open Studios, Winzavod, Moscow
2023 – 2024 Garage Studios, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2021 'Udar' residency in Prison Castle, Borovsk
2021 – 2021 Garage Studios, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
© 2015-2026 Alisa Smorodina