Ksenia Peretrukhina
Lives and works in Helsinki
+358 (0)46 8985569 peretru@gmail.com
Scenographer, set designer, visual artist, lecturer, contemporary theatre theorist, author of a series of workshops about stage space, ecology in theatre, and social theatre. Member of the independent theatre group Theatre of Mutual Operations. From 2002 to 2009 programme director of an outdoor video-art festival PUSTO.
Education:
1996-1997 Contemporary Art School at the Russian State Humanitarian University, BA
1997-2002 Russian State University of Cinematography, (VGIK), MA
1999-2000 Institute of Contemporary Art, founded by George Soros
2012-2013 Theatre Leadership School, Meyerhold Centre
Work experience:
Since 2000 works as an visual artist, presents solo exhibitions and participates in group Russian and foreign projects, сollaborates with XL gallery (Moscow), Garage Museum (Moscow), V- A-C Foundation (Moscow), WAM Gallery (Moscow), MMOMA (Moscow), State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow), White box gallery (New York), Debarkader Cunst (Stockholm), EUROPALIA (Brussels), Espace Louis Vuitton Gallery (Paris), participates in Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Havana Biennale of Contemporary Art.
Since 2005 works as a stage designer in drama, сollaborates with Baltic Circle Festival, TINFO, NET, Territoria, BRUSFEST, Theater of Nations (Moscow), Alexandrinsky Theater (St. Petersburg), Theater-Theater (Perm), PRAKTIKA Theatre (Moscow), Meyerhold Center (Moscow), Moscow Art Theater (Moscow), Gogol Center (Moscow), Klockriketeatern (Helsinki), Tampere Workers' Theatre (Tampere), Espoon Kaupunginteatteri (Espoo), Vaba Lava Theater Center (Tallinn&Narva) as well as сollaborates with independent venues.
Since 2016 works as a stage designer for opera houses, сollaborates with Perm Opera and Ballet Theater (Perm), URAL Opera (Ekaterinburg), Theater an der Wien (Vienna).
Awards and prizes:
BLACK SQUARE contemporary art prize, Nominee (2004)
KANDINSKY ART PRIZE, Nominee (2008)
GOLDEN MASK National Theatre Prize, Nominee & Laureate (2013, 2018, 2019)
INNOVATION contemporary art prize, Nominee & Laureate (2020)