Bioism: the new art of living forms CreativeMindClass Blog - The CreativeMindClass Blog

Mar 16, 2022

"I am a native of the Soviet Union in what is currently Ukraine. I loved to draw as a child; I even won several prizes. In high school, I decided to study economics. However, I was not content with the prospect of having a career that was full-time an uninteresting desk in a, dusty office. So I decided to try at art with a serious approach, which eventually led me into the class of Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. Then, I was able to be a student of Shirin Neshat, a teacher from Salzburg."

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"Making my art is an important method of creating unimaginable and imagined realms.

Aliens-like visuals, mystical feelings and shapes - that is what I love to imagine and visualize. Naturally, during my younger years, as with all of us, I began with the things which surrounded me and then I began to feel unhappy with the interpretation of the most well-known facts about visuals.

In the quest to produce every possible variation and artefact that are not known to me inspired me to compose utterly new universes."

Bioism. Installation in a church, Cologne
"Alterocentric Eudaimonia" Kunststation St. Peter (02.04.-26.05.2019) Cologne, Germany

What is your art style?

"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My day-to-day reflection and quote is:

Bioism , also known as biofuturism, is my attempt to create bio-inspired living organisms and modern aesthetic for future living things. Bioism can be described as a method to create art pieces that convey the aesthetic possibilities of synthetic biology. Bioism attempts to make art using the power of life, diversity and. I view each work as living things. Bioism gives life to dead subjects.
Personally, I am convinced that in the future, in the wake of an evolutionary revolution, we will use living furniture, live in living houses, as well as travel through space with living spaces. But the most exciting thing will be the ability for artists to create living materials, and thus create new forms of life. Artistic expression will gain the feeling of being born. The fantastical could be the reactions of an objects of art to their maker and the environment. Future art museums might transform into zoological gardens and galleries, they could be transformed into diversity funds, ateliers into biological laboratories.
Bioism seeks to promote the new and infinite kinds of life in the universe. Paradise engineering represents an advance in bioethics...

This manifesto, as I feel, will never be finished, as I myself am a living process still working on the issue."

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Bioism. Three Maasai men in Kenia
Bioism is joined by Maasai and their kids at the network tower (25.02.-01.03.2019) Risa, Kenia

What is the key for you to create your own installations?

"I attempt to steer clear of any primitive geometrics: none of the straight lines or the absence of lines, if possible. I am chasing after the collision between both macro and micro a regular routine.

Anything unknown or overly complex is immediately recognized by our inner eye as organic or somehow alive. Biology is the most deep and most intricate information structure of our planet."

Pink oil painting
P-landscape #41; oil on pressed wood 103 x 140 cm (2021)

A church can be a formal setting. Is it stressful to create the area?

"It is based on your own inner beliefs, fears, or how uncertain you are regarding your relationship to the human universe. For me, I'm almost no idea about time, space and its amazing wonders. An so when in an institution, I feel like a child with a curiosity in a large and strange play area that has some kind or communication capability.

I strive to be kind towards the art of it However, I also don't forget about its entertainment side and the aspect of speaking to the Deity. It's a little like an XXL-style phone booth where while talking or trying to hear you can also laugh."

Bioism. Phone booth
Bioism will be calling from Basel telephone booths (20-21.05.2017) Basel

How much are you in charge of the creation process and what percentage of the creation process involves biological?

"Controlling chaos is a challenging endeavor. My eyes and ear are all about to receive the possible unknown tune and to discover a new shape, which speaks to me, and stimulates my imagination nerve. It's not just a an all-in-one process, where you are a mining machine: taking lucky gems of fascinations and dumping a lot of trash of uninteresting possibilities behind your back. This is not for me.

I often combine my fascinations with other minor possibilities in order to create not just a pleasant music, but a surprising and unexpected results too. One of the most rewarding aspects of the work is to compose new world as you are already imagining what it should look like. Sometimes you have a daydream or even at night, while you sleep. The fact remains that the more I create, the more blisses I experience, and chaos becomes my friend in growing bioism."

Bioism. Streets of India
A traveling bioism animal makes HAPPY TOURNEYS with Konkan Railway, tuk-tuk, ferry, sugarcane juice machine, fisher vessel... (01-25.01.2012) India

Are you a creative person who enjoys it or are you able to gain something more from it? For instance, meditation or communication with your vulnerable side?

"Drawing time is time for contemplation. Additionally, I draw while discovering myself - the extent to which I might be able to surprise myself as well as how the universe might amaze me, which takes into account any and all possibilities on this strange pathway. Sometimes, the humor is funny indeed, and sometimes if I'm in need of more adrenaline, I go out in the world to make an appearance."

Bioism. Installation in a church, Rome
"A The Concept of Teleology in Cosmic Space" Sala Santa Rita (4. - 16. March, 2017) Rome

How did you get towards bioism? What did you try before it?

"The first steps were rather normal: I remember how happy I was about my half-drawing-half-painting of the tractor in the field for which I was praised in kindergarten.

In the following years, I was infatuated by drawing landscapes where I could sit in the grass for hours at a time, trying to draw motions of nature on the board. In the end, I created portraits. But I was so dissatisfied, so bored with the dullness of human faces that were reproduced (including in videos and photographs) and I halted. The moment I stopped, the shell of my egg was broken and I emerged like the phoenix (or Godzilla). That means that I came closer to the mystery of life. What is that? It is not to describe the current one, but to compose a new one. This was the day I began to create of my bioism and bioethics."

Bioism. Installation in a camper
Bioism uncovers sexual acts for hire, and the exploitative prostitution of caravans that involves Bulgarian and Romanian human female adults (06.06.2016) Eifeltor, Cologne

When I was going through your IG I thought that bioism could be interested in homelessness in LA...

"But it was not a good narrative: it was cold in the streets, and lonely people were happy to get any touch from a human, to listen to the Christmas story of the new-born bioism, and to play with little blue children of it.

The naked poverty on the shores of Hollywood could trigger an entirely different perspective - I have to imagine the philosophical implications of bioism interacting with a hypothetical Diogenes in Venice."

Bioism. Streets of Rome.
Bioism meets homeless on Christmas morning: Merry Christmas! (25.12.2016) Rome

To view more of his portfolio of work as well as go deeper into bioism, check out his Instagram and his current installation in the cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.