Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva
Born 1981 in Gusev, RU
Lives and works in Vienna.
Since September 2020: head of Ceramics Studio at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Education
2000 – 2004 Academy of fine arts / Prof. Bruno Gironcoli / Vienna
2004 – 2005 Diploma / Academy of fine arts / Prof. Manfred Pernice / Vienna
2004 – 2007 University of Vienna / Slavonic Studies
Scholarships / Residencies
2019 – scholarship – Arbeitsstipendium (Innovative Film) – BKA (Austrian Federal Ministry of Art and Culture)
2019 St. Petersburg Art Residency (Pushkinskaya 10)
2011/2012 Artist in residence Cesky Krumlov (Bm:ukk Austrian Federal Ministry of Art and Culture) / CZ
2010 Artist in residence Budapest (in cooperation with The City of Vienna)
Exhibitions
2024 — The silence of the Sirenes, Flat 1, Vienna, AT
2024 — Cross Roads, International Art Festival, Back to Athens 11,
Athens, Greece
2023-2024 — Aktuelle Positionen Skulptur Wien 2023, Vienna, AT
2023 — Elementare Gefäße, Villa Beer, Vienna, AT
2023 — Down the glitter hole, YCC, Vienna, AT
2023 — NOT SPECIFIED OBJECT, Miriam Laussegger & Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva, Galerie 20er Haus, Ried/Innkreis, AT
2022 — An die Wand muss es nicht, Maerz Galerie, Linz, AT
2022 — Aftershow Satellite Program 2, Kunstzelle vor dem MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, AT
2022 — Das Hollenwasserwunder Göttinnen-Fest 2022, The Dissident Goddesses Network, Elisabeth von Samsonow / Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva, Alberndorf, AT
2022 — No apocalypse now, International Art Festival, Back to Athens 2022, Athens, Greece
2022 — Skulpturengarten im Palais Auersperg, Vienna, AT
2021 — Very Real Estate, Vienna Art Week, Veronika Dirnhofer / Cristina Fiorenza / Anna Khodorkovskaya / Stefanie Koemeda / Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva, Vienna, AT
2021 — The Portal, BKÖ Members Exhibition, Vienna, AT
2021 — Real Estate, VBKÖ, Veronika Dirnhofer / Cristina Fiorenza / Anna Khodorkovskaya / Stefanie Koemeda / Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva, Vienna, AT
2021 — Urban Biodiversity — curated by Katerina Dimitrova — Seestadt Tower, Vienna, AT
2021 — Ungeheuerliche, Maria Bussmann / Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva / Marlene Lahmer — Galerie Frewein-Kazakbaev. Vienna, AT
2020 – Parallel Vienna, Austria
2020 – Transposition III, online exhibition of the St. Petersburg Art Residency, RU
2020 – International Art Festival, Back to Athens 2020, Athens, Greece
2020 – Arno Lehmann Preis für Keramik 2020, Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
2020 – Causa Formalis – Miriam Laussegger / Alexandra Zaitseva – Raumstation, Vienna
2019 – Parallel Vienna, Austria
2019 – Навикула Артис / St. Petersburg, Russia
2019 – 18 + – 2,04 gallery (Pushkinskaya 10) / St. Petersburg, RU
2019 – Water is a human right – Millerntor Gallery #9 / Hamburg, Germany
2019 – Read my lips – Nazim Ünal Yilmaz, Alexandra Zaitseva, Ulrike Johannsen / Vienna
2019 – Sans Souci – Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva, Ulrike Johannsen – Size Matters / Vienna
2018 – 10 min shift II – WUK / Vienna
2012 – Common history and its private stories – Sofia Art Gallery / Sofia / BG
2011 – Galerie Karenina / Art Moskau / Moskau
2010 – Klauzal Ter – Galerie Karenina / Vienna
2009 – Common history and its private stories – MUSA / Vienna
2007 – Kleinplastik – NÖ DOK für Moderne Kunst / St. Pölten / AT
2006 – Ramaschka – Artothek Galerie / Musa / Vienna
2004 – Schwanenhals und Goldkrepine – Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien / Vienna
2002 – Raum 8 – Meisterschule Bruno Gironcoli / Vienna
Curatorial work
2023 — Pride and Prejudice, Art & Craft — A Love Story, curatorial team — Ulrike Johannsen & Sascha Zaitseva, Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna, AT
Conferences:
2023 — Elementare Gefäße, lecturer: Albert Kirchengast, Wita Noack, Nina Wiedemeyer, Günter Figal, Joachim Hahn, Thomas Hasler, Roger Boltshauser, Sascha Zaitseva, Christian Ruschitzka / Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, DE
2023 — Pride and Prejudice, Art & Craft — A Love Story, organised by Sascha Zaitseva & Ulrike Johansen, moderated by Sascha Zaitseva, University of Applied Arts Vienna, AT
Publications:
2023 — ELEMENTARE GEFÄSSE, Vita composita — zwischen Kunst und Handwerk, zwischen Handeln und Kontemplation, Schriftenreihe des Mies van der Rohe Hauses. Band 9
Research
2021 — 2024 — BIOCOOL, FFG Stadt der Zukunft, project manager: Bernhard Sommer, project partners: Ulrich Pont, Anna Engedy, Mahdavi, Ardeshir, Schuß, Matthias Wilhelm, David Wolosiuk, Sascha Zaitseva
since 2023 — Broken Collection, FWF — PEEK, project manager: Gabriela Krist, project partner: Marlies Gailhofer, Johanna Runkel, Sascha Zaitseva
Press / interviews
2023 — Amour fou: Wo es zwischen Kunst und Handwerk kein Unten und Oben gibt, Nicole Scheyerer, FALTER 23/2023
2022 — Für die Kunst brennen heißt Ton brennen, Almuth Spiegler, Die Presse am Sonntag
2021 — Wo ist die Innen*stadt? / Skug Musikkultur
2019 – Neue Keramik / Das Europäische Keramikmagazin / artist portrait
2019 – Augustin #474 / art.ist.in / Kunst ist ein Versuchsfeld
2018 – Telepolis / Festival der Demokratie / Die Ausschreitungen rund um den Hamburger G20 Gipfel
2018 – Malmoe #82 / Wadde Hadde Dudde da?
2018 – Plastic Bomb / Neus aus der Welt der Kunst
2018 – ak Nr. 636 / Gemeinsam gegen G20
Teaching / lectures / artist talks
since 2020 ongoing:
Ceramics I / Ceramics II – University of Applied Arts, Vienna
2023 Methodologien der Un_Sichtbarkeit: Gender & Sexualität, Kunst – Theorie – Praxis (teamteaching with Katharina Wiedlack und Anna T.) – cooperation with Universität Wien
2020-2023 Feminist philosophy and ceramics in action (teamteaching with Dr. Maria Bussmann) – University of Applied Arts Vienna
2020 Werklabor lecture matereology ceramics, University of Applied Arts Vienna
2019 Artist talk: Unframed festival / Berlin / Germany
2018
Lecture: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna / masterclass Dorit Margreiter
Panel discussion/artist talk: annual press reception / Neues Deutschland / Berlin / Germany
Artist talks: Filmcasino, Wien / Kino 3001, Hamburg / Studio Kino, Hamburg / Rote Flora, Hamburg / Kino Brotfabrik, Berlin / fsk Kino, Berlin
Collections
Artothek / Art Collection of The City of Vienna
Private Collection of Christian Filla
Private Collection of Яков Кальменс
Screenings 2018/2021
Shortfilm Perestroika:
The Seattle Erotic Art Festival 2022
POST PxRN Filmfestival Warsaw 2022
official selection PornFilmFestival Vienna 2021
Satyrs and Maenads, the Athens porn film festival 2021
Shortfilm The great masturbatrass:
official selection PornFilmFestival Vienna 2020
Satyrs and Maenads, the Athens porn film festival 2020
Shortfilm Utopia:
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
3001- Hamburg
Studio Kino – Hamburg
G20 Retrospektive / Rote Flora – Hamburg
Werkstatt Kino – München
Documentary Festival of Democracy:
Abaton – Hamburg, Citykino Wedding – Berlin, Union Friedrichshagen – Berlin, Brotfabrik – Berlin, fsk – Berlin, 3001 – Hamburg, Rex – Köln, Kino in der Reitschule – Bern, Pumpe – Kiel, Endstation – Bochum, Luru – Leipzig, Sputnik – Berlin, Ladenkino – Berlin, Monopol – München, Arsenal – Tübingen, Zebra – Konstanz, Rote Flora – Hamburg, Weltecho – Chemnitz, Walzenlager – Oberhausen, Kino am Raschplatz – Hannover, Kino am Markt – Jena, Cineding – Leipzig, Kommunales Kino mon ami – Weimar, Universum – Braunschweig, Bambi – Düsseldorf, Kunstbauerkino – Großhennersdorf, Universum – Braunschweig, Peter Weiss Haus – Rostock, Filmforum – Duisburg, Kinohotel Mayer – Harsefeld, Filmcasino – Wien, Schauburg – Vechta, Lumimere – Göttingen, Kunstverein Nürnberg – Nürnberg, Freiland – Potsdam, Walzenlager — Oberhausen, Kino am Raschplatz — Hannover, Kino am Markt — Jena, Cineding — Leipzig, Kommunales Kino mon ami — Weimar, Universum — Braunschweig, Bambi — Düsseldorf, Kunstbauerkino — Großhennersdorf, Universum — Braunschweig, Peter Weiss Haus — Rostock, Filmforum — Duisburg, Kinohotel Mayer — Harsefeld, Filmcasino — Wien, Schauburg — Vechta, Lumimere — Göttingen, Kunstverein Nürnberg — Nürnberg, Freiland — Potsda
Nominations
Arno Lehmann Prize for Ceramics, 2020