BIO
Alena Mukhina is a ceramic artist, specializing on highly- textured ceramic sculptures.
Her objects combine biomorphic forms with complex multi-layered surfaces. Praising the material of ceramics she uses non traditional techniques to avoid texture overlap and stay with deep natural colors of clay itself.
Born in Udmurtia, USSR, Alena received a degree in Institute of Architecture / MARKHI State Academy in 2013. In the academy she started to work with ceramics and has undertaken a number of workshops including a course in Moscow State Academy of Applied Art and Design named after Sergei Stroganov. Since 2018 Alena has been an active part of the international ceramic community: she participated in a number of group shows, in Germany, France, Netherlands, Latvia, United Kingdom. Her works were shown in international fairs of contemporary art Cosmoscow in 2021, 2022, Blazar 2022, Collect London 2025. She also participated in the 6th International Ceramic Art Symposium at Mark Rothko Art Centre.
Now lives and works in the UK.
In 2022 Alena held her first personal exhibition with a complex project focused on transformations a person identifying as a female undergoes due to identity crisis after postpartum depression.
Alena Mukhina is a ceramic artist, specializing on highly- textured ceramic sculptures.
Her objects combine biomorphic forms with complex multi-layered surfaces. Praising the material of ceramics she uses non traditional techniques to avoid texture overlap and stay with deep natural colors of clay itself.
Born in Udmurtia, USSR, Alena received a degree in Institute of Architecture / MARKHI State Academy in 2013. In the academy she started to work with ceramics and has undertaken a number of workshops including a course in Moscow State Academy of Applied Art and Design named after Sergei Stroganov. Since 2018 Alena has been an active part of the international ceramic community: she participated in a number of group shows, in Germany, France, Netherlands, Latvia, United Kingdom. Her works were shown in international fairs of contemporary art Cosmoscow in 2021, 2022, Blazar 2022, Collect London 2025. She also participated in the 6th International Ceramic Art Symposium at Mark Rothko Art Centre.
Now lives and works in the UK.
In 2022 Alena held her first personal exhibition with a complex project focused on transformations a person identifying as a female undergoes due to identity crisis after postpartum depression.
Artist statement
I am an artist specializing in highly- textured ceramic sculptures.
My objects combine biomorphic forms with complex multi-layered surfaces. Praising the material of ceramics I use non traditional techniques to avoid texture overlap and stay with deep natural colors of clay itself.
I am really interested in human self-identification, migration, all about the problem of human transformation, studying it as a complex multidimensional phenomenon.
I find it to be crucial to tackle this matter in order to normalize the discussion about this issue within the art context and beyond it. Since 2019 I have been working on the project “There's a reason I’m here “, where I aim to lead the viewer through the
process of overcoming the crisis, talking openly about the matter and interacting with young mothers going through postpartum depression. The project was shown during a solo exhibition «There's a reason I'm here», ADH Studio in 2022.
“London raw clay project” happened in 2023 . Objects are made of wild, unfired clay excavated during the construction of HS2- high-speed railway line in England. By showing unfired ceramic objects I draw attention to the immanent connection between the spirit of a place and the UK's most gigantic transport network project nowadays.
In my practice I come to the topic of my research through intuitive making: sometimes images that I create embody the issues I am yet unable to verbalize. This principle is most strongly reflected in the project “Guts” which raises the issues of migrants and symbolizes their unifying hope.
I am an artist specializing in highly- textured ceramic sculptures.
My objects combine biomorphic forms with complex multi-layered surfaces. Praising the material of ceramics I use non traditional techniques to avoid texture overlap and stay with deep natural colors of clay itself.
I am really interested in human self-identification, migration, all about the problem of human transformation, studying it as a complex multidimensional phenomenon.
I find it to be crucial to tackle this matter in order to normalize the discussion about this issue within the art context and beyond it. Since 2019 I have been working on the project “There's a reason I’m here “, where I aim to lead the viewer through the
process of overcoming the crisis, talking openly about the matter and interacting with young mothers going through postpartum depression. The project was shown during a solo exhibition «There's a reason I'm here», ADH Studio in 2022.
“London raw clay project” happened in 2023 . Objects are made of wild, unfired clay excavated during the construction of HS2- high-speed railway line in England. By showing unfired ceramic objects I draw attention to the immanent connection between the spirit of a place and the UK's most gigantic transport network project nowadays.
In my practice I come to the topic of my research through intuitive making: sometimes images that I create embody the issues I am yet unable to verbalize. This principle is most strongly reflected in the project “Guts” which raises the issues of migrants and symbolizes their unifying hope.