Alexey Boriskin, b. 1986 in Izhevsk, Russia, is a multidisciplinary artist and a software developer, works on the intersection of digital ethics, machine logic, censorship, and media art. His practice is inherently collaborative, focusing on concept development, research, and co-creation. His work has been exhibited at major institutions, including the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Multimedia Art Museum, and the Ural Industrial Biennale.
Currently lives and works in exile following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Education
2023-2024: Machines of no more war, Smolny beyond borders
2023-2024: Digital ethics, Free university
2021-2022: Concept art school
2003-2008: Penza state technological university, Computer science, master degree
Work experience
2020-2022: Yandex, Expert software engineer
2017-2020: Yandex, Team lead
2015-2017: Yandex, Software engineer
2010-2014: Adwizard interactive, Software engineer
2008-2010: PSTU, Software engineer
Collaborative Practice
Worked on concept development, research, and co-creation for projects exhibited at:
- Moscow Museum of Modern Art
- Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
- Ural Industrial Biennale
Group exhibitions
2024
Emotional tissue, online exhibition
2021
Biennale Art of the future, Multimedia art museum, Moscow
View the results, Kunsthalle Nummer Sieben, Saint-Petersburg
Postspeculative design and decolonization of the future, Electromuseum, Moscow
2020
Long desired, abandoned villa Sushnevo-1
2019
Moskauer Positionen, Atelier am Eck, Düsseldorf
After us, Ural industrial biennale, Ekaterinburg
Blind spot, Ekaterina culture foundation, Moscow
2018
Open museum, Electromuseum, Moscow
Heat immortality, Maxim Boxer Gallery, Moscow
2017
Where No One Dreams: From Sacred Geography to Non-Place, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2015
What can art be like in science fiction?, Parallel program of 6th Moscow biennale, Museum and Exhibition Center ‘Worker and Kolkhoz Woman’, Moscow
Development of freedom, Fabrica CCI, Moscow, Russia