Alena TereshkoArtist / Helsinki, FinlandAlena 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. Alena is particularly interested in how contemporary phenomena and tradition (folklore or traditional art) are intertwined in the arts.Education2024-2026 The Academy of Fine Arts (Uniarts, Helsinki), Time and Space department2011-2013 Pro Arte School for young artists, St. Petersburg2007-2013 Stieglitz St.Petersburg State Academy of Art & Industry, St. PetersburgSelected solo Exhibitions2024 – Garden of Hands, gallery Myymälä2, Helsinki2022 – Home Odyssey, gallery YÖ, Helsinki2022 – Snow and Sun (with Ilkka Pitkanen), Albatross cultural space, Helsinki2020 – Why F, Borey Gallery, St. Petersburg2019 – SuperPosition, NAMEGALLERY, St.Petersburg2019 – This Apple, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, MoscowSelected Group Exhibitions2025 – Kuvan Kevät (MFA degree show), Kuva Tila, Helsinki2025 – In/Visible: The Changing Shape of Womanhood, Gallery De L’Est, Compiegne (France)2023 – The Beginning — A New Abyss, Huuto gallery, Helsinki2023 – Organic, Gallery Longa & Fönari, Helsinki2023 – Out of Office, Asbestos art space, Helsinki2022 – Communication, Borey Galley, St. Petersburg / Studio 44, Stockholm2021 – ART VEHICLES Art Bus, association MUU (Finland, Sweden)2021 – Yö-Fest vol. 1.4, Yö Gallery, Helsinki2021 – performance Crime of Passion within Unusual Companionship, Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki2021 – Millennials in Contemporary Russian Art, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg2020 – NEMOSKVA (MORE THAN MOSCOW), The Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg2019 – Negotiator,s XIII Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk (Russia)2018 – Om Jag Bara Kunde, Köttinspektionen, Uppsala (Sweden)2017 – Art Fair Suomi, Helsinki2016 – Wave Theory, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow2016 – My Self. Self-portrait in the Collection of the Russian Museum, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg2015 – Soft#Norm, Artplay, Moscow2015 – A — art, F — feminism, State Research Institute "DAR", Moscow2015 – Sub Observationem, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow2014 – Other Capital, Museum of Moscow, Moscow2014 – The black envy, Parallel program of Manifesta 10, Borey gallery, St.Petersburg2014 – Other Capital, Museum of Moscow, Moscow 2013 – Lost in translation, Special project of the 55th Venice Biennial, Venice2012 – Saturnalia, V. Smirnov & K. Sorokin Foundation, Tbilisi, Batumi, GiorgiaSelected Festivals2023 – Gyumri Art Week, Gyumri (Armenia)2023 – Aletheia festival, Raseborg (Finland)2021 – The VIDEOFORMES festival, Clermon-Feran (France)2022, 2021, 2016 – The 14-th, 13th, 9th CYBERFEST, Yerevan, Armenia /Dartington, UK /St. Petersburg, Russia2016, 2015 – 62-th and 61-st Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, Germany2016 – Bang Boom III festival, Northampton, UK2013 – Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum, festival; Museum of Urban Electrical Transport, St. PetersburgResidencies / Awards2025 – Johanna Ehrnrooth prize. The University of Arts Helsinki Foundation2024 – Cite des Arts residency, programm 2-12, Paris2024 – scholarship BGF (bourse du gouvernement français) for Cite residency2024 – grant Taike (for the exhibition in Myymälä2, 2 months work)2019 – IASPIS international programme for Visual and Applied Artists, Umea, Sweden2017 – Sergei Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Prize (nomination "Best Media Object")2015 – Residence Nordland Kulturesenter, Bodø, Norway Selected Group ExhibitionsMembershipsYö ry, MUU ry, AV-ARKKI, Finnish Painters Union, Catalysti ry, Globe Art PointCollections Moscow Museum of Modern Art, MoscowNationalCentre for Contemporary Arts, MoscowV. Smirnov & K. Sorokin Foundation, Moscow, RussiaVideo archive Internationale Kurzfilmtage, OberhausenPrivate collectionsIn the media 2025 Cora №8182 interview with Alena Tereshko by Marina Pugina (in Swedesh)2025 Helsingin Sanomat. Poimimme Kuvataide akatemian lopputyö näyttelystä viisi taiteilijaa, joita kannattaa seurata (in Finnish)2025 Long Play. Kuvan Keväässä ei erotu yksittäistä trendiä mutta se tarjoaa koskettavia ja omaehtoisia teoksia sille, joka ei kiirehdi ohi (in Finnish)2023 Garage archive, interview (in Russian)2021 Artkommunalka (artist residency in Kolomna, Moscow region) Toy-like Kolomna (in Russian).2019 IASPIS (the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's international programme for Visual and Applied Artists) website. Alena Tereshko tells about her practice (in English).2019 Artuzel Journal. Interview with Alena Tereshko on the opening of her exhibition in Moscow Museum of Modern Art (in Russian).2018 Masters Journal. Alena Tereshko tells about her practice (in Russian).2019 AroundArt Journal. Article about Alena Tereshko and her exhibition in Moscow Museum of Modern Art (in Russian).2016 The Calvert Journal. Troubled Youth. Russia video artists address the problems of a generation (in English)2014 The Calvert Journal. Curated selection Your definitive who's who in the new generation of Russian visual artists (in English)The CYLAND Video Archive, composed of video works of the artists who participated in Cyfest festivals that had been held by CYLAND Media Art Lab since 2007 (in English). Presentation Alena TereshkoBlinkvideo, a platform for research of video art, performance and multimedia installations. Artists' presentations (in English).