KSENIA MAZHEYKO
KSENIA MAZHEYKO
is a visual artist and independent art researcher (Madrid, Spain)
Ksenia Mazheyko (Madrid, Spain) is a visual artist and independent art researcher whose interdisciplinary background bridges philosophy, life sciences, and fine arts. Her practice engages art as a cognitive and epistemological tool, capable of producing knowledge about human existence.
Born into a family of scientists in 1981, she received classical training in academic art in Yekaterinburg, a city shaped by Constructivism and the intellectual currents of post-Soviet Russia. With a degree in philosophy ... read more
Born into a family of scientists in 1981, she received classical training in academic art in Yekaterinburg, a city shaped by Constructivism and the intellectual currents of post-Soviet Russia. With a degree in philosophy ... read more
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BIO
Ksenia Mazheyko (Madrid, Spain) is a visual artist and independent art researcher whose interdisciplinary background bridges philosophy, life sciences, and fine arts. Her practice engages art as a cognitive and epistemological tool, capable of producing knowledge about human existence.
Born into a family of scientists in 1981, she received classical training in academic art in Yekaterinburg, a city shaped by Constructivism and the intellectual currents of post-Soviet Russia. With a degree in philosophy and further studies at the Madrid Academy of Art, she creates artwork that are informed by neuroscience, anthropology, and psychogenesis.
Mazheyko’s current research focuses on the origins of human identity and perception. Through a methodology combining watercolor, Chinese ink, and calligraphy with conceptual inquiry, she explores the boundaries between art and science, aiming to lay the groundwork for a PhD in the methodology of art.
Ksenia Mazheyko (Madrid, Spain) is a visual artist and independent art researcher whose interdisciplinary background bridges philosophy, life sciences, and fine arts. Her practice engages art as a cognitive and epistemological tool, capable of producing knowledge about human existence.
Born into a family of scientists in 1981, she received classical training in academic art in Yekaterinburg, a city shaped by Constructivism and the intellectual currents of post-Soviet Russia. With a degree in philosophy and further studies at the Madrid Academy of Art, she creates artwork that are informed by neuroscience, anthropology, and psychogenesis.
Mazheyko’s current research focuses on the origins of human identity and perception. Through a methodology combining watercolor, Chinese ink, and calligraphy with conceptual inquiry, she explores the boundaries between art and science, aiming to lay the groundwork for a PhD in the methodology of art.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
“Who is this?” – I ask myself every morning, looking in the mirror. For many years, I have lived inside a cocoon of dailiness. My cocoon has exhausted and fallen apart. Only what matters left—questions that matter.
We, Homo Sapience, survived premodern, modern, and postmodern. In metamodern, we give up differences and connect. We join our efforts instead of competing. We cherish traditions and reinterpret the meaning of our individual lives and the existence of our species. We cross the liminal space. Open up to the new. Recognize that only one tool for self-knowledge is insufficient.
Cutting-edge science is my first tool. Evolutionary biology, comparative anatomy, neuroscience. The beauty of scientific knowledge is downstream from its specificity, versatility, and reproducibility.
My second tool is an accurate artistic expression. My drawings speak about what matters. Particularities distract. Graphics: white paper, black ink. Japanese calligraphy elements. Only one brush touch. Cadmium blood is all over my workplace. I am searching. Transforming. Reducing.
That is how I create sharp images of biostructures. I shove off the scientific knowledge, and following a neurographic line, I dip into our species' memory. Calligraphy reveals the gold from inside to the upside, to the paper. This gold, like the truth, belongs to everyone.
That is how I recall who we are, where we are from, and where we are going. Together with you, my spectator.
“Who is this?” – I ask myself every morning, looking in the mirror. For many years, I have lived inside a cocoon of dailiness. My cocoon has exhausted and fallen apart. Only what matters left—questions that matter.
We, Homo Sapience, survived premodern, modern, and postmodern. In metamodern, we give up differences and connect. We join our efforts instead of competing. We cherish traditions and reinterpret the meaning of our individual lives and the existence of our species. We cross the liminal space. Open up to the new. Recognize that only one tool for self-knowledge is insufficient.
Cutting-edge science is my first tool. Evolutionary biology, comparative anatomy, neuroscience. The beauty of scientific knowledge is downstream from its specificity, versatility, and reproducibility.
My second tool is an accurate artistic expression. My drawings speak about what matters. Particularities distract. Graphics: white paper, black ink. Japanese calligraphy elements. Only one brush touch. Cadmium blood is all over my workplace. I am searching. Transforming. Reducing.
That is how I create sharp images of biostructures. I shove off the scientific knowledge, and following a neurographic line, I dip into our species' memory. Calligraphy reveals the gold from inside to the upside, to the paper. This gold, like the truth, belongs to everyone.
That is how I recall who we are, where we are from, and where we are going. Together with you, my spectator.
CV
Publications
"About Art and Science in Research Activities" by Ksenia Mazheyko (in English)
"About Art and Science in Research Activities" by Ksenia Mazheyko (in Russian)
"Interaction between art and science: where does one end, and where does the other start?" by Julia Sysalova in ArtMuse Magazine 18/2024 Digital, pages 54-61 (in Russian)
"Art or Science?" By Ksenia Mazheyko in Artist Talk Magazine Issue 23 - July 2024, pages 44-45 (in English)
"Science Art: why is the interaction between science and art essential" by Ksenia Mazheyko (in English)
Publications
"About Art and Science in Research Activities" by Ksenia Mazheyko (in English)
"About Art and Science in Research Activities" by Ksenia Mazheyko (in Russian)
"Interaction between art and science: where does one end, and where does the other start?" by Julia Sysalova in ArtMuse Magazine 18/2024 Digital, pages 54-61 (in Russian)
"Art or Science?" By Ksenia Mazheyko in Artist Talk Magazine Issue 23 - July 2024, pages 44-45 (in English)
"Science Art: why is the interaction between science and art essential" by Ksenia Mazheyko (in English)