Aleksandra Kononchenko
area: Photography, Video
Key Facts
nationality
Belarusarea
Photography, Videoresidence
Minskrecommending institution
BMEIAtime period
November 2022 - November 2022Aleksandra Kononchenko is an Belarussian photographer and visual artist.
She studied Architecture in Belarusian State Technical University and Photography in Warsaw Academy of photography. Her interest in video art is based on a mixture of photography & video.
As a visual artist she likes to work with performers and dancers, inventing projections for their performances.
As a photographer, she is interested in portraits, architecture, reportage and she loves to make experiments with the light.
She had many collaborations with journalists and as a photographer she did a lot of social reportages, about autism, the death penalty, domestic violence, labor slavery in Belarus etc.
Also she often creates her photographs in collaboration with architects and actors. Her work has been presented internationally.
2022
- Artistic talk in B.L.O. Ateliers. Berlin. Germany
- Video projection for the performance "375 0908 2334 / The body you are calling is currently
not available". Santarcangelo Festival. Italy https://marinadashuk.art/body
2021
- Video projection for the performance "375 0908 2334 / The body you are calling is currently not available". Festival “DIVADELNÍ FESTIVAL KUTNÁ HORA DFKH”. Kutna Hora. Czech Republic
- Video projection for the performance "Red planet". Bratislava. Slovakia
- Video projection for the performance "375 0908 2334 / The body you are calling is currently not available". Festival “New Baltic Dance ” . Vilnius. Lithuania
- Group exhibition. Spanish pavilion. BIENNALE ARCHITETTURA 2021 17TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION. Venice. Italy
2020
- Video projection for the performance "Red planet". Minsk. Belarus - Official photographer of 36 Warsaw Film Festival. Warsaw. Poland
2019
- Fòcare. Art residency. Group exhibition "Corpo comune". Villa Littorio. Italy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-0LDFKdBrQ
- Official photographer of 35 Warsaw Film Festival. Warsaw. Poland
- Official photographer and moviemaker of EASA (EASA – European Assembly of Students architectures). Villar-Sur-Ollon. Switzerland
- Video performance in collaboration with Robert Niznik (CZ). International theater Academy. Schliersee. Germany
2018
- Video projection for the performance "Wasser - Das Sensible Chaos". Bad Kissingen. Germany
- Group exhibition. Spanish pavilion. BIENNALE ARCHITETTURA 2018 16TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION. Venice. Italy
- Official photographer and moviemaker of EASA. Rijeka. Croatia.
2017
- Personal exhibition “Flamenco expedition”. Minsk. Belarus
- Personal exhibition “Rapid eye movement”. Minsk. Belarus
- Official photographer and moviemaker of EASA. Fredericia. Denmark
- Judge of the First International Photography Competition “Cities without Architecture”. Andalucía. Spain
2016
- Personal exhibition “EASA” . Fredericia. Denmark
- Official photographer and moviemaker of INCM (The Intermediate National Contact Meeting of the representatives of all European countries of EASA). Madrid. Spain
- Personal exhibition “EASA”. Madrid. Spain
- Official photographer and organizer of SESAM (Small European Students of Architecture Meeting). Minsk. Belarus
2015
- Official photographer and moviemaker of INCM.Glasgow. Scotland
- Official photographer and moviemaker of EASA. Valletta. Malta
- Participant of the exhibition “More than he”. "Ў" gallery. Minsk. Belarus
- Participant of the exhibition "freedom of expression". "Studio 67". Minsk. Belarus
2014
- Official photographer and moviemaker of INCM. Berlin. Germany
- Official photographer and organizer of EASA . Veliko Tarnovo. Bulgaria
2013
- Tutor of the workshop “EASA TV” . Zuzemberk. Slovenia - Tutor of the workshop “EASA TV”. Bucharest. Romania
2012
- Tutor of the workshop “EASA TV”. Vienna. Austria
- Official photographer of the international architectural festival Odessa. Ukraine
- Tutor of the workshop “EASA TV”. Helsinki. Finland.
- Personal exhibition “Angles of the city center” held by “Minsk architectural forum - 2012”
2011
- Personal exhibition "7:45" held as a part of the festival “ChernigovPhotoFest-2011”. Chernigov. Ukraine
- Participant of the workshop “EASA TV”. Cadiz. Spain
Education:
2018-2019 - Warsaw Academy of photography
2007-2012 - Belarusian State Technical University. Architecture
2007-2008 - Belarusian State Art Academy. Course of Photography
2003-2007 - Minsk Government College of Architecture and Construction. Architecture
1. My friends and I are making a political performance about what had happened in Belarussian prisons after the elections. I think it’s important to explain to people around what has happened and not forget it. Here you can have a look at a diary of our shows https://marinadashuk.art/body. As I’m making documentation for this project I have a lot of videos to sort and finish. I would like to put everything in order, finish teasers and photos for each performance.
2. I’m moving from one place to another all the time, sometimes with different kinds of jobs. I would like to come back to simplicity and slowness (because I have a feeling that I’m starting to lose it) and make simple portraits for people who are around and for locals. So I would like to have a kind of “Open studio” where people can visit me anytime and get a portrait.