Alexey Khamkin (b. 1984) is a visual artist based between Saint Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. Influenced by Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, he works with traditional and computer graphics, as well as with animation, illustration, and installation. Khamkin is interested in structures and landscapes and explores points of connection between humans and nature, whether this connection takes the form of resistance, cooperation, mutual influence, or possibility of communication.
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Kami no Yama (Paper Mountain), 2014. Solo exhibition at the Nakamoto Seiji Museum of Contemporary Art, Sendai, Japan
Kami no Yama (Paper Mountain), 2014. Crumpled paper serves as an image of compressing information without a possibility of restoring it
Kami no Yama (Paper Mountain), 2014. Solo exhibition at the Nakamoto Seiji Museum of Contemporary Art, Sendai, Japan
Mood Generator, 2017. Project for group exhibition Do not switch! at the Museum of Communication, Saint Petersburg
Mood Generator, 2017. The title alludes to the eponymous machine from Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which could generate any mood the user wanted
Mood Generator, 2017. Project for group exhibition Do not switch! at the Museum of Communication, Saint Petersburg
Radiopulsar, 2018 (collaboration with radio astronomer Andrey Kazantsev)
Radiopulsar, 2018 (collaboration with radio astronomer Andrey Kazantsev). This project dealt with the encounter of the theoretical and practical knowledge
Fragen (Questioning), 2018. Project for group exhibition The Privacy of Radio Frequencies at the Museum of Communication, Saint Petersburg
Virion, 2018. Project for group exhibition Matter of Horror (parallel program of the sixth Moscow Biennale of Young Art, Solyanka VPN State Gallery, Moscow)
Virion, 2018. Graphic series about viral agents and their influence on the carrier’s structure
Virion, 2018. Project for group exhibition Matter of Horror (parallel program of the sixth Moscow Biennale of Young Art, Solyanka VPN State Gallery, Moscow)
Snowiness, 2018. Solo exhibition at the 25Kadr Gallery, Moscow
Snowiness, 2018. The works are based on the materials of the artist’s journey around Hokkaido
