Kse­nia
Pe­ret­rukhi­na

Kse­nia Pe­ret­rukhi­na is a vi­su­al ar­tist and sce­nog­rapher wor­king at the in­tersec­ti­on of con­tempo­rary art, the­at­re, and pub­lic spa­ce. Thro­ugh si­te-spe­cific ins­tal­la­ti­ons, fo­und ob­jects, and par­ti­cipa­tory prac­ti­ces, her work exp­lo­res the re­lati­ons­hips bet­we­en pe­op­le, the ma­teri­al world, me­mory, and col­lecti­ve ex­pe­ri­en­ce. She con­ce­ives of art as a spa­ce for en­co­un­ter, di­alo­gue, and col­lecti­ve ac­ti­on.

Pe­ret­rukhi­na has wor­ked in con­tempo­rary art sin­ce 2000 and in dra­ma the­at­re and ope­ra sin­ce 2005. Sin­ce March 2022, she has be­en li­ving and wor­king in Fin­land. She has pre­sen­ted so­lo ex­hi­biti­ons and par­ti­cipa­ted in in­terna­ti­onal ex­hi­biti­ons and the­at­re pro­jects ac­ross Rus­sia, Euro­pe, and the Uni­ted Sta­tes. As a sce­nog­rapher, she has de­sig­ned mo­re than thir­ty dra­ma and ope­ra pro­duc­ti­ons, inc­lu­ding Sha­kes­pe­are and Two Ro­oms at the Go­gol Cen­ter (Mos­cow), and Apo­calyp­se To­mor­row for Ki­rill & Fri­ends, all co-cre­ated with Ev­ge­ny Ku­lagin and Ivan Es­tegne­ev.

Along­si­de her ar­tistic prac­ti­ce, Pe­ret­rukhi­na de­velops lec­tu­res and work­shops on so­ci­al­ly en­ga­ged art, eco­logi­cal thin­king, ho­rizon­tal prac­ti­ces, and the ro­le of art in fos­te­ring fre­edom, trust, and de­moc­ra­tic par­ti­cipa­ti­on.

She is the re­cipi­ent of the In­no­vati­on Pri­ze for Con­tempo­rary Art and has be­en no­mina­ted for the Kan­dins­ky Pri­ze and the Black Squa­re Pri­ze. She is al­so a mul­tiple no­minee and re­cipi­ent of the Rus­si­an Na­ti­onal The­at­re Award Gol­den Mask.