“The past and the future can be united in the present”

Kristina Ageeva
( Multidisciplinary Artist )

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I have long noticed that I live in a world where information has become a new kind of matter. This is my primary subject of observation. It is important for me to explore how information materializes, how it influences people, and shapes our future. I am drawn to the idea of it from bit — that everything is made of information. Therefore, in my projects, information becomes not a tool, but the very material I work with as an artist.

I am an active person, a mother, an entrepreneur. I have built my career independently, and living within contemporary society, I feel its shifts very acutely. I see things that often go unnoticed: the flow of identical ideas, templated texts, content fatigue, the influence of digitalization on taste and thought. These observations have become the foundation of my work—I document what I see every day.

For several years, I have been using neural networks and actively managing social media. During one of my talks, I asked the audience, "Who uses ChatGPT?" — and everyone raised their hand. That moment was a realization of a new era for me. In my work as a decorator, I often see identical solutions, ideas, and visuals—and I understand that digitalization simultaneously offers enormous opportunities and creates new risks. We are accelerating, but losing uniqueness. And this is precisely what I find important to address through art.

In my projects, I show different facets of this process. I observe how digital technologies, social media, fashion, and media shape us. How we are changing. How society is changing. And how information becomes a force capable of altering reality.

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My art is an opportunity to convey to the future an honest message about what is happening to us right now. About the transition we are living through. About how information governs our lives. It is important for me to preserve this—while we stand on the boundary between two eras.

The subject of my artistic research is the human being. In each project, I examine the process of their interaction with different aspects of modernity: technology, artificial intelligence, fashion. Through my installations, I document my observation of the evolution of contemporary society. The themes of my work are the interaction between humans and technology, digitalization, the beauty of the everyday, fashion, relationships. In my teenage years, I first began creating installations from trash collected on the seashore, and to this day, my installations are made from ordinary household materials and objects which, through absurd or more straightforward embodiments, become symbols of this interaction.

( Artist Statement )

I find myself thinking more and more often that we are a transitional generation. We grew up without the internet, without smartphones, and without artificial intelligence, yet today we live inside a new digital reality. And my work is about this transition. About how people, thinking, perception, and society are changing. This moment of transformation can only be captured now, while we ourselves are its witnesses and participants.

( Education )

2011 International School of Floristry "Nicole"
2009 State University for the Humanities, Jurisprudence

( Courses )

2025 Joseph Bakshtein Institute of Contemporary Art

( About Me )

Kristina Ageeva

Multidisciplinary Artist and Decorator. Lives and works in Moscow.

Themes: human-technology interaction, digitalization, the beauty of the everyday, fashion, relationships.

Mediums: installation, readymade, photography, media art.

The flower and the vacuum cleaner perform the same function: cleaning dust from the air. Flowers absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen through photosynthesis. The vacuum cleaner cleans dust from the air mechanically. I have merged the image of a natural element with a household object into a single entity, where we can see an inflorescence made from a volumetric soft cushion, a stem that absorbs through vacuum, and roots in the form of cords that power and energize the installation.
This work is about the interaction of biological and mechanical functions within a single object.

I plan to develop this project into a total installation titled "Field"

"Flower Vacuum"
Installation, 2025
Vacuum cleaner, "Chamomile" cushion
Dimensions: 2 x 1 m

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In the modern world, we are fully transformed into digital space, leaving behind our invisible digital trace. In this work, I used the image of a person who is completely absorbed into the digital world. A metal frame transitions into neon, creating the sensation of a venous system transforming into the digital realm. The all-seeing eye records every one of our digital traces

"Transformation"
2025
Metal, neon, laptop, drawing
Dimensions: 2 x 1 m

Observing myself and my own feelings while existing in the modern world, I felt the influence of the beauty industry and an inner heaviness from the constant pursuit of the perfect appearance. This work is about the imposed ideas of how a modern woman should look beautiful, and how the chase for beauty often leaves behind only internal emptiness and a sense of burden. I used a skeleton made of metal (the image of a person), a weight (the inner feeling of heaviness), lace (the feminine image), a measuring tape (an object for measuring forms), and scales with the mark "0" (which speaks of complete emptiness). I wanted to create a sensation of presence that is, simultaneously, one of total external and internal absence

"Emptiness"
2025
Installation
Metal, weight, lace, measuring tape, scales.
Dimensions: 2 x 0.7 m

This work is about contemporary relationships between men and women. During a period of actively searching for my fateful man, I would become attached to men for whom I meant little. We often experience attachment to those for whom we are a void. In this work, I show the relationships between people, which often become complicated and tangled. A woman’s braid holds onto a chair. The chair is a masculine, stable image that is, in fact, broken

"Attachment"
2025
Canvas, acrylic, artificial hair, chair.
Dimensions: 2 x 2 m

This work critiques absurd pricing and social inequality. Luxury items are often inaccessible to the majority, and this bag, made from nails, powerfully drives home the idea of inaccessibility, showing how the industry transforms ordinary objects into symbols of division and status

"Bag"
Metal, nails
Luxury that is out of reach
Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm

Flowers fill me with energy and light

"Energy Exchange"
Installation
2 x 1 m

This work asks a question: where do the real boundaries lie—outside or within? The metal and nails show material, tangible frames, while the threads inside represent our inner experiences and thoughts

"Boundaries"
Metal, nails, threads
2 x 1 m

Wire, light and shadow
Wire flowers are frozen time, a still moment where movement and life have stopped. And their shadows, growing on the walls from the light, are time continuing without a body. In this work, time exists separately from matter. The flowers are a stopped moment, the light is energy, the shadows are a growing reflection. The work explores the nature of time—invisible, yet perceptible through movement

"Time Field"
2025
Total installation, 3 x 4 m

( Installations )

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«Nature's Self-Portrait»

"Zoomorphy"
Canvas, gouache, rain 29.7 x 42 cm

A space where natural processes and human actions meet on a single surface

"Collision"
Canvas, acrylic, snow
29.7 x 42 cm

A collision of biological and digital systems

"Rejection"
Acrylic, canvas, 50 x 70 cm

The effect of "reverse attraction"—the natural logic of gravity is disrupted when information becomes equal to matter

"Gravity"
Acrylic, canvas, 50 x 70 cm

"Through the Lens of Flowers"
Tripod, canvas
50 x 70 cm

This work is dedicated to all contemporary artists—to those who can draw and to those who cannot

"The Artist's Tears"
Canvas on cardboard, nylon tights, threads
2 x 1.5 m

Poppies for beauty

"Poppies"
Canvas, acrylic, threads
120 x 150 cm

Nature is capable of creating its own image, if man does not intervene in the process

"Simulation"
Canvas, gouache, snow 29.7 x 42 cm

( Painting / Assemblage )

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