Alexei Gordin
Alexei Gordin (born in 1989) studied painting in Tallinn and Helsinki and currently lives and works in Tallinn.
Although he has a background as a painter, Gordin fluently uses different media and works with drawing, photography, video, and performance.
The main subject matter of his artistic practice is absurdly stereotypical thinking and behaviour patterns of people in contemporary mass society. Gordin’s works are almost always narrative in nature and often cover exciting or annoying situations. In the early years of his career, filthy slums, empty industrial landscapes, marginalised and stigmatised social groups, and vulgar jokes constituted the core atmosphere of Gordin’s work.
The harsh reality of the art world has now become one of his main topics and the artist has himself become the protagonist. Scenes scattered with black humour deconstruct the image of the professional art world as something elitist and glamorous.
Gordin has won several photography competitions and in 2017 he was awarded the Young Painters’ Prize in Vilnius.
Exhibitions at Kogo
Press and Publications
In English
Stories from Behind the Red Dot
Visual essay by Alexei Gordin. Estonian Art 1/2019.
Painting is (not) just fun anymore. The young Painter prize 2017
Alberta Vengryte. Echo Gone Wrong. 15.12.2017.
Half-jokingly… Notes to Alexei Gordin
Andreas Trossek. Magazine of Art and Visual Culture in Estonia KUNST.EE, 4/2015.
In Estonian
Koidikud on siin vaiksed, Jaan Elken, Sirp, 16.12.2022,
Ääreala kunstimull, Johanna Jolen Kuzmenko, Sirp, 08.04.2022
Veel üks mõttetu kunstiarvustus näitusele, mida vaatama ei jõuta, Aleksander Metsamärt, Sirp, 13.08.2021
Segane aasta: Alexei Gordin
Küsis Aleksander Stapov. Müürileht, 9.04.2021.
Kunst sinu ümber. Rõõmsameelne eksistentsialist Alexei Gordin
Kaarin Kivirähk. Postimees, 20.03.2020.
Alexei Gordin: paljust, mis 1990-ndatel oli elukeskkond, on saanud uues ajas romantiseeritud ekspordiartikkel
Keiu Virro. Eesti Päevaleht. 5.08.2020.
Üksinda galeriis
Indrek Grigor. Sirp. 1.06.2018.
Alexei Gordin ja nõukogude-järgse kunstniku seiklused kapitalistlikus maailmas
Elnara Taidre. Vikerkaar, 01.07.2017.
Tõejärgse ajastu tõejärgne kunst
Tanel Rander. Sirp, 17.03.2017.
Romantiline Ida–Euroopa Lääne moodi
Eva-Erle Lilleaed. Postimees, 21.03.2017.
Teise pilk aitab ennast leida
Aleksandra Orlova. Sirp, 16.12.2016.
Kas kunstnik on tähtsam kui pudelikorjaja?
Kaarel Kressa. Eesti Päevaleht, 12.08.2014.
Noor kunstnik teostab end pudeleid korjates.
Asso Puidet. Pärnu Postimees, august 2013.
