Katya Bryskina is a London-based artist and experimental architect. She is dedicated to advancing concepts for the future of living, primarily focusing on fostering a symbiotic relationship between nature and technology.
She creates concepts, spaces, installations, and objects at the intersection between art, architecture, and design. Her work incorporates cutting-edge technologies, bio-based material research, and speculative narratives to poetically explore our possible futures through the medium of art.
Selected Projects: Future Protein, Your Personal Carbon Storage, Constructing Clouds and Albedo
Bio-Fold, LIFORM: Living Megastructures
Katya Bryskina (Global Talent UK) is an artist and experimental architect based in London. She holds a Master's Degree in Emergent Technology and Design from the Architectural Association School of Architecture (London, UK). She was a researcher at The New Normal think-tank at Strelka Institute (Moscow, RU), a resident at SPACE10, IKEA's research and design lab (Copenhagen, DE), Non-Extractive Architecture at V-A-C Foundation (Venice, IT) and S+T+ARTS Hungry Ecocities. She has exhibited and presented her work internationally in addition to teaching and publications.
EDUCATION
2018 STRELKA INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA, ARCHITECTURE and DESIGN
The New Normal Postgraduate Programme, Moscow, Russia
2015-2017 ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION, M.Arch. Emergent Technologies and Design, London, UK
2005-2011 ST. PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN, M.A. Spatial Design; B.A. Spatial Design, St.P, St.Petersburg, Russia
2006 -2007 ST. PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY, Photo Faculty Certificate, St.Petersburg, Russia
2003-2004 ST. PETERSBURG ART SCHOOL №1
2002-2003 ST. PETERSBURG ANICHKOV PALACE ART SCHOOL
RESIDENCIES
2024
2023
S+T+Arts Hungry Ecocities Residency funded by Horizon 2020.
Consortium: Brno University of Technology (coord., CZ), KU Leuven Institute Leuven.AI (BE), CRA – Carlo Ratti Associati (IT), Studio Other Spaces (GE), In4Art (NL), Mendel University (CZ), NethWork (NL), FundingBox (PL) and supported by Gluon (BE).
2023
Regenerative Futures: A SPACE10 AI Design Competition Shortlist and Exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021
Non-Extractive Architecture curated by Space Caviar, V-A-C Zattere, Venice, Italy
AiNIN Online Residency
2019
SPACE10, The Research and Design Lab, Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Kombucha Dostevesky Residency at oK16, Minsk, Belarus
COMMISSIONS:
2022
Constructing Clouds and Albedo, Art Center Nabi East Meets East, Seoul, Korea
2020
Bio-Fold, SPACE10, Copenhagen, Denmark
AWARDS
2023
Regenerative Futures: A SPACE10 AI Design Competition Shortlist, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021
Lexus Design Award Shortlist
Finalist in the installation competition for the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale, Estonia.
2019
Nova Art Contest Winner
Lexus Design Award Shortlist
TEACHING
2023
AA Media Studies, UK
Bartlet B-Pro, London, UK
Digital Fabrication Course, ASK [Architecture for Society of Knowledge], Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
2022
AA Media Studies, London, UK
Bartlet B-Pro, London, UK
Programmable Matter: Material Intelligence Course, ITMO University, St.Petersburg, Russia
2021
Bartlet B-Pro, London, UK
Digital Futures, Online
2019
Robotic Fabrication Workshop, Future Architect Conference, Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, and Design, Moscow, Russia
2018
Robotic Fabrication Workshop, In the City Conference, Strelka Institute Week, St.Petersburg, Russia
Workshop, Future in the City Conference, Moscow City Museum, Moscow, Russia
EXHIBITIONS
2023
Regenerative Futures: A SPACE10 AI Design Competition Shortlist and Exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021
Non-Extractive Architecture Exhibition curated by Space Caviar, V-A-C Zattere, Venice, Italy
Group exhibition Museum of Artificial History, The State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia
2021
LIFORM: Water Sensitive Device, group exhibition “Museum of Artificial History”, The State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia
2020
Solo exhibition LFORM: Living Megastructure, Orekhov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Futurebuild, ExCel, London, UK
2019
Eyes of the City, Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture, Futian CBD, Shenzhen, China
Kombucha-Dostoevsky Residence Exhibition, OK16, Minsk, Belarus
This is the Beginning, or Virtual Genius, NOVA ART Contest Winners Exhibition, New Holland Island, St. Petersburg, Russia
Minsk Design Week, OK16,Minsk, Belarus
2018
Showcase, Strelka Institute, Moscow, Russia
2016
Project Review Exhibition, Architectural Association, London, UK
2015
Group Exhibition “I Love You” curated by Andrey Bartenev. Faсtory, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2014
Hey Jude, MakerLabs, Vancouver, Canada
2013
The Third Festival of Contemporary Art Forma, Artplay, Moscow, Russia
Art Space Event, Gogol-Center, Moscow, Russia
The exhibition "Analysis of Research", Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
New Sankt Petersburg, NIEUW DAKOTA, Amsterdam, Holland
Festival Forma, Krasnaya Presnya Park, Moscow, Russia
2012
FORMS Lab. Gallery ART re.Flex, St. Petersburg, Russia
Rejected Reality, Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Artplay, St. Petersburg, Russia
Elastic Arts, The Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art Erarta”, St. Petersburg, Russia
Experience, Nevskii 8, St. Petersburg, Russia
2009
LAKE, LAVA, DROPS, in association with creative studio Rare 3, Antwerpen, Belgium
2008
Art Parade Festival, Loft Project Etaji, St. Petersburg, Russia
Errorism vol.1, St. Petersburg, Russia
TALKS
2023
Climate Matters Week, Architectural Association, London UK
2022
EmTech Masterclass, , Architectural Association, London
Art Center Nabi East Meets East Conference, Korean Cultural Centre UK, London, UK
Living Materials and Circular Design Strategies, Green Building Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel
Non-Extractive Architecture Exhibition at V-A-C Foundation, Venice, Italy
2021
Non-Extractivism, an Architecture of Transformation Panel, French Pavillion, The 17th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy
2020
Bio-Fold Session, Space 10, Copenhagen, Denmark
St.Petersburg Design Week, St.Petersburg, Russia
Innovation Pitch, Futurebuild, ExCel, London, UK
2019
EmTech Talk, Architectural Association, London, UK
Keynote: Robots, Mushrooms and Natural General Intelligence Systems in Architecture Strelka Institute, Voronezh, Russia
Future Architect Conference, Strelka Institute, Moscow, Russia
Lecture "Natural General Intelligence" with Monogroup at Minsk Design Week
2018
Conference: In the City, Strelka Institute, St.Petersburg
Lecture, House of Scientists, Troitsk, RU
Lecture, Faculty of Economics, Moscow State University
Lecture, Art Belarus Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
Future in the City Conference, MIBC, Moscow, Russia
PUBLICATIONS
2023
Constructing Clouds and Albedo Article, East Meets East Catalogue, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
2022
The New Normal book, Strelka and Park Books ISN: 978-3038602200
2021
Strelka Mag Article: LIFORM - Living Megastructure
Article by Elena Redaelli, ARTEMORBIDA, Textile Arts Magazine
2020
Interview by Ellen Rozhnova (edited by Marine Birot), ArtyGeberation
Interview, SPACE10 Journal
Bio-Fold Article, SPACE10
CONSULTANCY
Marguerite Humeau, London, UK
Gilles Miller Studio, London, UK
Hepp, London, UK
Wolfgang Buttress Studio, Nottingham, UK