Alena Tereshko (b. 1986, Siberia) works in her art practice with autobiography and humour, blending personal narratives with social critique. Grounded in feminist studies, her performance-based work spans diverse forms of expression, including painting, video and installations. Her work pushes audiences to rethink power, identity, and selfhood, affirming the deeply personal as political.
She is currently pursuing an MFA at the Academy of Fine Arts (Uniarts, Helsinki). In 2013, she graduated from the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design and completed the School for Young Artists program at the Pro Arte Foundation.
Alena had solo-exhibition in Myymälä2 gallery (2024, Helsinki), Yö gallery (2022, Helsinki), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2019, Moscow) and NAMEGALLERY (2019, St. Petersburg). Her works were shown in Europe: Gallery De L’Est, (2025, Compiegne), Studio 44 (2022, Stockholm), Köttinspektionen (2017, Uppsala), and in Special project of the 55th Venice Biennial (2013). She participated in residencies, including Cite des Arts, Iaspis, Nordland Kulturesenter and others, and in such film festivals as Cyfest (2022, 2021, 2016, 2014, UK, USA, Armenia, Russia), Oberhausen Short Film Festival (2015, 2016, Germany), and The VIDEOFORMES (2021, France).