SASHA ZALIVAKO

Education

  • 2026 — maktab-mektep Summer School, Aktau (curated by Lada Hrsak)
  • 2025 — book Design Masterclass: Teun Van der Heijden & Sandra Van der Doelen,Organized by Bronx Documentary Center, New York.
  • 2017 — Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna — exchange with Hans Schabus
  • 2014–2018 — Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague — BA, Sculpture department
  • 2015 — Masterclass with Tino Sehgal

Professional Experience

  • 2020–2025 — Balenciaga, Ready-to-Wear Fashion Department, Paris
  • 2017–2020 — Stained-glass restorer, Glas-in-Lood / Bas Nordman, The Hague
  • 2017 — Apprentice, Joseph Koning stained-glass studio, Vienna
  • 2016 — Photographer, BluePrint magazine, Amsterdam
  • 2014 — Stage artist and performer, Meyerhold Theatre, Moscow
  • 2013 — Assistant to jeweler Vladimir Markin
  • 2012–2013 — Assistant, fashion photography, W.O.S., Moscow

Projects

  • 2022 — Mtispiri Bus Stop, Mtispiri, Georgia — self-initiated, designed and built

Exhibitions — Solo / Two-Person

  • 2018 — Outermost Corner, One Night Stand series, Nest Gallery, The Hague

Exhibitions — Group

  • 2025 — Kraut, Vienna
  • 2024 — Swab Art Fair, with Tiny Art Gallery, Barcelona
  • 2023 — Underground group exhibition, Paris
  • 2022 — Group exhibition, Gallery of Modern Fine Art of Ozurgeti, Georgia
  • 2022 — Kollaborationen, MUMOK (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig), Vienna
  • 2020 — Kifl the Kid Salon, BillyTown, The Hague
  • 2020 — Group exhibition, Tiny Art Gallery, The Hague
  • 2019 — I would like to be a dancer to be able to dance with the circumstances (Zahars Bondars), Haden Gallery, The Hague
  • 2019 — The Three Obliques of a Perspective, curated by Nino Sakandelidze, MAUDI, Tbilisi
  • 2019 — Group exhibition, Solyanka Gallery, Moscow
  • 2017 — Nokia's Tagline, pre-graduation show, KABK / Mooof, The Hague
  • 2017 — Café am Heumarkt, organized by E++, Vienna
  • 2017 — Essence Exhibition, Die Angewandte, Vienna
  • 2017 — Learning from Hans Schabus, Vienna
  • 2017 — Dollhouse of a Poem, Vienna
  • 2017 — Caramelo — it's in the fucking ocean, 3rd-year Fine Arts exhibition, Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague
  • 2015 — OTSEFINAM (MANIFESTO), or how to activate a fanzine, TENT, Rotterdam — with Anna Moreno and Antoni Hervas

Performances & Sound Work

  • 2025 — Organist in The Wind Blows Wherever It Wants, dir. Ivan Boiko, premiered at IDFA, Amsterdam
  • 2022 — Radio Art Zone, 22-hour group sound performance
  • 2021 — Seanaps Festival, Walking Tbilisi, with Community Radio Tbilisi
  • 2021 — All-Day Music Meditation, organ concert curated by Julian Bennett Holmes and Steve Long, St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, New York
  • 2021 — Soundscape session with Perila, BUDKA, Tbilisi
  • 2021 — Number One, organ piece, WEST Den Haag
  • 2020 — Rites of Passage, 6-part visual series, with Raimundas Malasauskas and ANNASTATE, WEST Den Haag online platform
  • 2019 — Sound director and director's assistant, Poezdochka (ADED project), dir. Alexander Khudokon, Venice
  • 2019 — Visual work for DETACHED [but interconnected?], James Andropolous, commissioned by CID, The Hague
  • 2015 — Performer, Simone Forti, Here It Comes, Vleeshal, Middelburg

Residencies

  • 2024 — Le Château de la Haute Borde, France
  • 2019 — Aq-Tusheti, Omalo, Georgia
  • 2018 — Fondation François Schneider, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Wattwiller, France

Publications

  • 2019 — Riso publication by Ania Shestakova, MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Festival, "Invited By”
  • 2017 — Stained glass for Toyota Starlet Johansen, Beelden Magazine (Dutch art and culture magazine)

Collections

  • MUMOK, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna (works from Dollhouse of a Poem, 2017)

Press

  • 2016 — Feature, TheBluePrint.ru