Bioism: New living art forms - The CreativeMindClass Blog

Mar 16, 2022

"I came from the Soviet Union in what is now called Ukraine. I enjoyed drawing when I was when I was a kid; I had a few prizes. After high-school I went on to study economics. However, I did not feel content with the idea of working full-time at the desk of a dull and dusty workplace. So I decided to try art seriously, which led me into the class of Konrad Klapheck at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf. Later, I went on to become a pupil of Shirin Neshat, a teacher from Salzburg."

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"Making my art is a significant method of creating unimaginable imaginary realms.

Aliens-like visuals, mystical feelings and shapes - that is exactly what I enjoy to think about and imagine. In my younger years, as with everyone, I started with the things which surrounded me however, I soon became dissatisfied with interpreting the most well-known facts about visuals.

In the quest to produce any variation that is possible and artefacts of unknown origin motivated me to design completely unique universes."

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

How would you describe your style of art?

"Bioism. Biofuturism. Paradise Engineering. Bioethical Abolitionism. My everyday thought and declaration is:

Biofuturism or Bioism is an attempt to create bio-inspired living organisms and new aesthetics of future organic life. Bioism is an approach to design art-related objects that demonstrate the visual potential of synthetic biology. Bioism attempts to make art using the power of life, diversity and. Each of my works as a living being. Bioism extends life to lifeless objects.
Personally, I think that in the near future following a biological revolution, we'll be using living furniture, live in live-in homes, and even travel to space via live stations. The most fascinating feature will be the capability of artists to work with living materials, and thus create different forms of living. Artistic expression will gain the practical sensation of birth. It could be a reaction of the art object to its maker and the environment. Art museums of the future may transform into zoological parks and galleries, they could be transformed into diversification funds, and ateliers to bio-labs.
Bioism is a movement to create different and inexhaustible kinds of life in the universe. Paradise engineering is an advance in bioethics...

This manifesto, I feel, will never be finished, as I am myself a biological process still working on it."

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

What's the secret for you to create your own installations?

"I am trying to avoid all primitive geometric structures: none of the straight lines or the absence of lines, as far as is possible. I'm chasing the intersection between both macro and micro a daily day basis.

Anything that isn't understood, or too complex will be immediately perceived by the human eye as being organic, or perhaps alive. Biology is the most deep and most complex information architecture of our planet."

Pink oil painting
P-landscape #41, Oil on wood pressed, 130 x 140cm (2021)

A church can be a formal setting. Are you stressed to make within such a area?

"It depends on your inner expectations, hidden burdens, or the degree of uncertainty you have about your connection to the world of humankind. For me, I'm almost zero knowledge of space, time and their amazing wonders. So when I go to the church, I am like a child with a curiosity in an enormous and bizarre playground that is a part of communication purpose.

I try to be respectful towards its artistry, but I do not ignore its fun aspect, the part about talking to a Deity. It's a little like an XXL phone booth. While talking or trying to understand you could be funny too."

Bioism. Phone booth
Bioism calls from Basel phone booths (20-21.05.2017) Basel

What is your level of control of the process of creation and what percentage of the process is all bioism?

"Controlling chaos is a challenging undertaking. My inner ear and eyes are all about to receive the possibility of a new tune or shapes, that speak to me and touches my imagination. It's not just a one way process where you act just like an mining machine, collecting lucky gemstones and throwing hell of waste of non-interesting options in your face. This is not for me.

My fascinations are often combined and other interests in order to create not just a pleasant melody, but also a surprising and unexpected results also. One of the most rewarding aspects of this work is creating a new universe as you are already imagining what it ought to look. There are times when you dream; sometimes it comes at night, while you sleep. However, the fact is that - the more I design and create, the greater pleasures I am able to experience. Chaos is my partner in growing bioism."

Bioism. Streets of India
A traveling bioism animal makes a HAPPY JOURNEY by using Konkan Railway, tuk-tuk, ferry, sugarcane juice machine as well as a fishing vessel... (01-25.01.2012) India

Do you have fun creating, or do you find something other than enjoyment from it? For instance, the practice of meditation, or communicating with your most vulnerable part?

"Drawing time is time for contemplation. Also, I create while discovering myself - how far I could amaze myself, as well as how my universe could be able to surprise me. This involves any and all possibilities on this strange pathway. Sometimes it gets funny, for sure, but sometimes, if I need more adrenalin I go to the outside world and make an intervention."

Bioism. Installation in a church, Rome
"A Notion of Cosmic Teleology" Sala Santa Rita (4. - 16. March 2016) Rome

What led you to 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 with landscape drawing, where I would sit on the grass for hours at a time and try to sketch motions of nature on the board. Then I made portraits. But I was so dissatisfied, being bored of any reproduced human face (including photos and video) which is why I stopped. The moment I stopped, the egg's shell was broken and I emerged as a phoenix (or Godzilla). Which means that I came closer to the mystery of life. What does that mean? It's not to explain the current one and to create 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, exploitative caravan prostitution and prostitution in the form of Bulgarian and Romanian adult females. (06.06.2016) Eifeltor, Cologne

As I perused your IG I was thinking that bioism might be interested in homelessness in LA...

"But there was an opposite story: it was cold in the streets, and lonely people where happy to receive any human touch, to listen to the Christmas story of the newborn bioism as well as to play with the tiny blue children of it.

The bare poverty of the shores of Hollywood may trigger a totally different approach and I'm forced to think of the philosophical aspects of bioism meeting with hypothetical Diogenes from Venice."

Bioism. Streets of Rome.
The homeless and bioism meet at Christmas: good morning! (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 at the cathedral St. John the Divine in New York.