Andrey Shental

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Spanning film, photography, landscape performance, environmental interventions, sound, and theoretical as well as speculative texts, my practice examines the domination of nature, cross-species communication, shifting human–nonhuman relations, and ideological biases embedded in techno-scientific systems. Through eco-critical performative works, I use my body to stage relations of attachment, submission, and dissolution, challenging pastoral and patriarchal imaginaries of the environment. In my films, I grant political agency to more-than-human actors, questioning anthropocentric hierarchies and entangling natural and social histories.

In 2014 I studied experimental analogue filmmaking at no.w.here school in London and was a guest student in the Experimental class at Academy of Finer Arts in Leipzig (HGB) during 2025–26. I am currently pursuing a PhD in aesthetics and philosophy of nature at Goethe University Frankfurt.

My works have been presented at international museums, galleries, and festivals including Science Museum (London), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow)MMoMA (Moscow), V–A–C Zattere (Venice), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Athens Digital Arts Festival, and others. I have held two solo exhibitions: Sub Drop at Kunsthaus KuLe and Attachment Issues at Centrum. My works are held in private collections as well as the collections of Tretyakov Gallery and KADIST Foundation.

 
EXHIBITIONS:
 

2026

Aug — Parajanov Battalion, ANSL, Venice
May–Jun — 1st VideoHackBo Experiment, Bogota
May–Jun — 5º Festival Vórtice, São Paulo
Apr — Athens Digital Arts Festival
Apr — Radical Empathy, we are village / instinct, Berlin
Mar — Antinous, ANSL, Venice
Feb — Rudgang, HGB, Leipzig
Feb — Queerfest on Film, Norwich
Feb — Attachments Issues (solo show), Centrum, Berlin

2025

Nov — AIIF International Showcase Exhibition, Seoul
Nov — Mimicry, Nasenrücken, Bochum
Jun — Selfie/Portrait, Museum für Fotokopie, Müllheim
May — CosmiX Festival IV, Saint-André des Arts, Paris
Feb — Pose – QueerFest Exhibition, Undercroft Gallery, Norwich

2024

Nov–Dec — Venus Conversations, Science Museum, London
Jul — Sub Drop (solo show), Kunsthaus KuLe, Berlin
Mar–Apr — Mosaikörper, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin

2023

Nov–Jan 2024 — Descent into the Fungal, Buro Stedelijk, Amsterdam
Sep–Oct — Comm-Sui, Kunsthaus KuLe, Berlin
Jul–Sep — Niche Construction, NoD Gallery, Prague

2021

Sep — Seasonal Work: Mushroom Kingdom, Kyiv Biennale
May–Jun — At the Stroke of Midnight, Szena Gallery, Moscow
Mar–Aug — Assuming Distance: Speculations, Fakes, and Predictions in the Age of the Coronacene, Garage Museum, Moscow

2017–2018

Dec–Feb — The Return, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
Nov–Mar — The Electric Comma, V–A–C Zattere, Venice
Nov–Dec — The First Person, SkateCafe, Amsterdam
Apr–Jun — Hosting the Inhuman, MMoMA, Moscow

RESIDENCIES:

2026 — Bird Ringing & Art Residency Camp, Albanian Ornithological Society, Vjosë–Nartë

2019 — New Alphabet School, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

2017— Critics’ Agenda, Blockfrei, Vienna

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