Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich
Onset (2023)
Courtesy of the artists
Applied demonology is what Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich call their artistic method. Its chief object is the atrocious tactics of the Russian military in its colonial invasions. To approach their methodical evil and trace its onset, the artists uncover the life cycle of Russian air bases in Ukraine, Belarus, and Syria. Combining open-source intelligence, CGI animation, and medieval demonology, they look closely at the parasitic force that aims to possess the sovereign states, destroying them from within.
Anna Engelhardt (1996, Rostov-on-Don, Russia) is the alias of a research-based artist and writer. Her investigative practice spans multiple forms of media, including video, software, and hardware interfaces. Interested in the politics and history of information wars, she works with the tension between evidence and fiction, looking into subjects from military cybernetics to cyber warfare. Engelhardt has shown her work at Transmediale, Berlin; Ars Electronica, Linz; Kyiv Biennial; the Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media, Høvikodden; and the National Gallery of Art, Vilnius. She lives in London.
Mark Cinkevich (1994, Lahoysk, Belarus) is an interdisciplinary researcher and artist. In his practice, he is interested in critical, speculative, and experimental aspects of art that operate at the intersection of fact and fiction. His work focuses on the post-Soviet infrastructural and social landscape, through which he explores in particular the concepts of nuclear colonialism, infrastructural colonialism, extractivism, and monstrosity. He lives in Warsaw.
Funded by Transmediale, Pro Helvetia, and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich at Artist Talks
22.9., 15:30–16:30
Video, 25 min.
English with German subtitles
Demon Radio
Group exhibition
Funded by Transmediale, Pro Helvetia, and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich at Artist Talks
22.9., 15:30–16:30