Alyona Larionova is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmmaker. She uses a range of media including moving image, sound, and installation to create immersive experiences and community projects that echo a deep concern for the environment and social change. Her projects are often collaborative, driven by empathy and connection to the physical world. Recently, her research has focused on exploring decolonial and feminist perspectives within the realms of science and ecology.

Over the past seven years, she has developped intricate and complex works alongside numerous collaborators. In ‘Across Lips’ (2016), she staged the performance of a renowned jazz drummer at the Internet Archive (San Francisco). In the film ‘Staying with the Trouble’ (2018) she collaborated with a Kazakh eagle-hunter, a border control officer, and a judoist on a performative documentary. In 2021, she was awarded Arts Council England grant for her debut audio-play ‘Pioneers’ (2022). The artist is currently developping her first feature documentary.

2023    LUX Critical Forum, LUX London, UK
2021    Arts Council England Project Grant, UK
2020    Main Award, Cinema in Transgression, 18th Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris, FR 
2019    Shortlisted for FLAMIN Productions Grant, London, UK 
2018    Nominated for VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize, IT
2016    Nominated for Tenderflix Video Award, London, UK
2015    Residency at Geumcheon Seoul Art Space, SK
2012    Residency at WARP Artist Village, Genk, BE
2012    Residency at Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn, EST

2013     MFA Media, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
2010     BA Photography, London College of Communication, London

2024    EKRANI I ARTIT Festival, Shkodra, ALB
2023    Sunscreen, LUX, London, UK
2022    Alphabet, Turf Projects, London, UK
2021    VAEFE, Sea Foundation, Tilburg
2021    19th International Festival Signs of the Night, Bangkok
2021    Confinements, Videobrasil (online)
2021    After Us, MAXXI Museum, Rome, IT; Pecci Centre for Contemporary Arts, Prato, IT
2021    PAW, The One Minutes, Het Nieuwe Instituut / Museum Hilversum / Remise, Amsterdam, NL
2020    Time Passed like a Courier with Urgent News, Loop Barcelona
2020    18th International Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris, FR
2020    Associative Structures, Salzburg Kunstverein, AT
2020    Aerial Conduits, aCinema, Milwaukee, WI, US
2019    22nd Antimatter Media Art Festival, Victoria, BC, CA
2019    3rd Festival ECRA, Museum of Modern Art Rio de Janeiro; SESC São Gonçalo, BR
2019    The Table, The Swiss Church, London, UK
2019    POWER HOUSE: Structures of Power, Pylon-Lab, Dresden, DE
2019    Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
2019    Touching Distance, Exposed Arts Projects, London, UK
2018    35th Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel, DE
2018    European Identities, New Geographies in Artists’ Film and Video, Le Murate Progetti Arte Contemporanea,  Florence, IT
2018    Nøtel Cinema, the One Minutes, Stroom Den Haag; Art Museum of Nanjing,University of the Arts; Shanghai    Tower, CN
2018    Brighton Photo Fringe, ONCA, Brighton, UK
2018    The Face of the Earth, Espacio Pla, Buenos Aires, AR
2017    Videobrasil, Saõ Paolo, BR
2017    How to tell the artist from her art, AIR Moscow, 7th Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moscow, RU
2017    MOSTYN Open 20, MOSTYN, Lladudno, WAL 
2017    New Media Art, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi, SK
2017    Aural Aesthetics, Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham, UK
2017    Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, FR
2016    Better Living, Tenderflix Video Award, The Horse Hospital, London, UK
2016    Visions in the Nunnery, The Nunnery Galleries, London, UK 
2016    Open Film 2016, Picturehouse Cinema, Norwich; a.m. space, London, UK  
2016    Photo Fringe, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, UK
2015    Moving Studios, HOW Art Museum, Wenzhou, CN
2015    Sens du lieu, lieu du sens, Traverse Video Festival, Toulouse, FR
2014    Mark Wallinger Presents: The Best of Bow, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
2014    Group Show #1, Prizma Space, Istanbul, TR
2013    Slade Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2012    We’ll see, we’ll see again, Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn, EE
2010    Qui Vive? II Moscow Biennial of Young Art, NCCA, Moscow, RU
2010    Paris Photo Week, Paris, FR
2010    Artist of the week, Salon Contemporary, London, UK
2010    In Fluence, Simon Finch, London, UK

WORKSHOPS & TALKS

2022   Artist talk, Croydon School of Art, London, UK
2021   A series of workshops w/ Art Press youth collective, Croydon, London, UK
2019   Close reading workshop “Staying with the Trouble (D. Haraway) as an artistic methodology”,
Exposed Arts Projects, London, UK

Fondazione In Between Art Film
The One Minutes Foundation, Amsterdam

CONTACT

alyonalarionova.studio (at) gmail.com