Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva
Born 1981 in Gusev, Soviet Union
Lives and works in Vienna.
Since September 2020: head of Ceramics Studio at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Education
2000 – 2004 Academy of fine arts / Prof. Bruno Gironcoli / Vienna
2004 – 2005 Diploma / Academy of fine arts / Prof. Manfred Pernice / Vienna
2004 – 2007 University of Vienna / Slavonic Studies
Scholarships / Residencies
2019 – scholarship – Arbeitsstipendium (Innovative Film) – BKA (Austrian Federal Ministry of Art and Culture)
2019 St. Petersburg Art Residency (Pushkinskaya 10)
2011/2012 Artist in residence Cesky Krumlov (Bm:ukk Austrian Federal Ministry of Art and Culture) / CZ
2010 Artist in residence Budapest (in cooperation with The City of Vienna)
Exhibitions
2025 — Heldinnen / Sheroes, Frauenmuseum Bonn, DE
2025 — THE LANGUAGES OF THE GODDESSES, MAMUZ Museum, Schloss Aspern/Zaya, AT
2025 — I AM MY OWN MUSE, Klocker Museum, Hall, AT
2025 — Hard and Fast Lines, Anna Khodorkovskaya & Sascha Zaitseva, HOAST, Vienna, AT
2024 – The silence of the Sirenes, Flat 1, Vienna, AT
2024 – Cross Roads, International Art Festival, Back to Athens 11, GR
2024 – Aktuelle Positionen Skulptur Wien 2023, Vienna, AT
2023 – Elementare Gefäße, Villa Beer, Vienna, AT
2023 – Down the glitter hole, YCC, Vienna, AT
2023 – NOT SPECIFIED OBJECT, Miriam Laussegger & Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva, Galerie 20er Haus, Ried/Innkreis, AT
2022 – An die Wand muss es nicht, Maerz Galerie, Linz, AT
2022 – Aftershow Satellite Program 2, Kunstzelle vor dem MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, AT
2022 – Das Hollenwasserwunder Göttinnen-Fest 2022, The Dissident Goddesses Network, Elisabeth von Samsonow / Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva, Alberndorf, AT
2022 – No apocalypse now, International Art Festival, Back to Athens, GR
2022 – Skulpturengarten im Palais Auersperg, Vienna, AT
2021 – Very Real Estate, Vienna Art Week, Veronika Dirnhofer / Cristina Fiorenza / Anna Khodorkovskaya / Stefanie Koemeda / Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva, Vienna, AT
2021 – The Portal, BKÖ Members Exhibition, Vienna, AT
2021 – Real Estate, VBKÖ, Veronika Dirnhofer / Cristina Fiorenza / Anna Khodorkovskaya / Stefanie Koemeda / Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva, Vienna, AT
2021 – Urban Biodiversity – curated by Katerina Dimitrova – Seestadt Tower, Vienna, AT
2021 – Ungeheuerliche, Maria Bussmann / Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva / Marlene Lahmer – Galerie Frewein-Kazakbaev. Vienna, AT
2020 – Transposition III, online exhibition of the St. Petersburg Art Residency, RU
2020 – International Art Festival, Back to Athens 2020, Athens, GR
2020 – Arno Lehmann Preis für Keramik 2020, Traklhaus, Salzburg, AT
2020 – Causa Formalis – Miriam Laussegger / Alexandra Zaitseva – Raumstation, Vienna AT
2019 – Навикула Артис / St. Petersburg, RU
2019 – 18 + – 2,04 gallery (Pushkinskaya 10) / St. Petersburg, RU
2019 – Water is a human right – Millerntor Gallery #9 / Hamburg, DE
2019 – Read my lips – Nazim Ünal Yilmaz, Alexandra Zaitseva, Ulrike Johannsen / Vienna, AT
2019 – Sans Souci – Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva, Ulrike Johannsen – Size Matters / Vienna, AT
2018 – 10 min shift II – WUK / Vienna, AT
2012 – Common history and its private stories – Sofia Art Gallery / Sofia / BG
2011 – Galerie Karenina / Art Moskau / Moskau, RU
2010 – Klauzal Ter – Galerie Karenina / Vienna, AT
2009 – Common history and its private stories – MUSA / Vienna, AT
2007 – Kleinplastik – NÖ DOK für Moderne Kunst / St. Pölten / AT
2006 – Ramaschka – Artothek Galerie / Musa / Vienna, AT
2004 – Schwanenhals und Goldkrepine – Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien / Vienna, AT
2002 – Raum 8 – Meisterschule Bruno Gironcoli / Vienna, AT
Upcoming exhibitions
2025 – Untitled / Ohne Titel, Niederösterreichischen Dokumentationszentrum St. Pölten, AT
Curatorial work
2023 — Pride and Prejudice, Art & Craft — A Love Story, curatorial team — Ulrike Johannsen & Sascha Zaitseva, Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna, AT
Conferences:
2023 — Elementare Gefäße, lecturer: Albert Kirchengast, Wita Noack, Nina Wiedemeyer, Günter Figal, Joachim Hahn, Thomas Hasler, Roger Boltshauser, Sascha Zaitseva, Christian Ruschitzka / Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, DE
2023 — Pride and Prejudice, Art & Craft — A Love Story, organised by Sascha Zaitseva & Ulrike Johansen, moderated by Sascha Zaitseva, University of Applied Arts Vienna, AT
Publications:
2023 — ELEMENTARE GEFÄSSE, Vita composita — zwischen Kunst und Handwerk, zwischen Handeln und Kontemplation, Schriftenreihe des Mies van der Rohe Hauses. Band 9
Research
2021 — 2024 — BIOCOOL, FFG Stadt der Zukunft, project manager: Bernhard Sommer, project partners: Ulrich Pont, Anna Engedy, Mahdavi, Ardeshir, Schuß, Matthias Wilhelm, David Wolosiuk, Sascha Zaitseva
since 2023 — Broken Collection, FWF — PEEK, project manager: Gabriela Krist, project partner: Marlies Gailhofer, Johanna Runkel, Sascha Zaitseva
Press / interviews
2023 — Amour fou: Wo es zwischen Kunst und Handwerk kein Unten und Oben gibt, Nicole Scheyerer, FALTER 23/2023
2022 — Für die Kunst brennen heißt Ton brennen, Almuth Spiegler, Die Presse am Sonntag
2021 — Wo ist die Innen*stadt? / Skug Musikkultur
2019 – Neue Keramik / Das Europäische Keramikmagazin / artist portrait
2019 – Augustin #474 / art.ist.in / Kunst ist ein Versuchsfeld
2018 – Telepolis / Festival der Demokratie / Die Ausschreitungen rund um den Hamburger G20 Gipfel
2018 – Malmoe #82 / Wadde Hadde Dudde da?
2018 – Plastic Bomb / Neus aus der Welt der Kunst
2018 – ak Nr. 636 / Gemeinsam gegen G20
Artist talks
2025 Von Werkstätten zu Freiräumen, Kooperation mit Volkskundemuseum im Rahmen des Projektes „Der Hof der Kulturen“
2024 Wo ist die InnenStadt, as part of the course «QUE(E)RING PUBLIC ART»at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
2024 Keramik in Aktion — Zwischen Kund und Handwerk, zwischen Handeln und Kontemplation, Tonhalle Wien
2019 Artist talk: Unframed festival / Berlin / Germany
2018 Panel discussion/artist talk: annual press reception / Neues Deutschland / Berlin / Germany
2018 Artist talks: Filmcasino, Wien / Kino 3001, Hamburg / Studio Kino, Hamburg / Rote Flora, Hamburg / Kino Brotfabrik, Berlin / fsk Kino, Berlin
Teaching / lectures
2023 Methodologies of Un_Visibility: Gender & Sexualität, Kunst – Theorie – Praxis (teamteaching with Katharina Wiedlack und Anna T.) – cooperation with Universität Wien
2020-2023 Feminist philosophy and ceramics in action (teamteaching with Dr. Maria Bussmann) – University of Applied Arts Vienna
2018 Lecture: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna / masterclass Dorit Margreiter
since 2020: Ceramics I / Ceramics II – University of Applied Arts, Vienna
since 2020: Werklabor lecture matereology ceramics, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Collections
Artothek / Art Collection of The City of Vienna
Private Collection of Christian Filla
Private Collection of Яков Кальменс
Screenings 2018/2021
Shortfilm Perestroika:
The Seattle Erotic Art Festival 2022
POST PxRN Filmfestival Warsaw 2022
official selection PornFilmFestival Vienna 2021
Satyrs and Maenads, the Athens porn film festival 2021
Shortfilm The great masturbatrass:
official selection PornFilmFestival Vienna 2020
Satyrs and Maenads, the Athens porn film festival 2020
Shortfilm Utopia:
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
3001- Hamburg
Studio Kino – Hamburg
G20 Retrospektive / Rote Flora – Hamburg
Werkstatt Kino – München
Documentary Festival of Democracy:
Abaton – Hamburg, Citykino Wedding – Berlin, Union Friedrichshagen – Berlin, Brotfabrik – Berlin, fsk – Berlin, 3001 – Hamburg, Rex – Köln, Kino in der Reitschule – Bern, Pumpe – Kiel, Endstation – Bochum, Luru – Leipzig, Sputnik – Berlin, Ladenkino – Berlin, Monopol – München, Arsenal – Tübingen, Zebra – Konstanz, Rote Flora – Hamburg, Weltecho – Chemnitz, Walzenlager – Oberhausen, Kino am Raschplatz – Hannover, Kino am Markt – Jena, Cineding – Leipzig, Kommunales Kino mon ami – Weimar, Universum – Braunschweig, Bambi – Düsseldorf, Kunstbauerkino – Großhennersdorf, Universum – Braunschweig, Peter Weiss Haus – Rostock, Filmforum – Duisburg, Kinohotel Mayer – Harsefeld, Filmcasino – Wien, Schauburg – Vechta, Lumimere – Göttingen, Kunstverein Nürnberg – Nürnberg, Freiland – Potsdam, Walzenlager — Oberhausen, Kino am Raschplatz — Hannover, Kino am Markt — Jena, Cineding — Leipzig, Kommunales Kino mon ami — Weimar, Universum — Braunschweig, Bambi — Düsseldorf, Kunstbauerkino — Großhennersdorf, Universum — Braunschweig, Peter Weiss Haus — Rostock, Filmforum — Duisburg, Kinohotel Mayer — Harsefeld, Filmcasino — Wien, Schauburg — Vechta, Lumimere — Göttingen, Kunstverein Nürnberg — Nürnberg, Freiland — Potsda
Nominations
Arno Lehmann Prize for Ceramics, 2020