Lecturer, Portfolio Building Course
About:
Serafima Bresler is a contemporary artist, currently working and studying in Hamburg, Germany. Serafima graduated with a Bachelor of Illustration from the British Higher School of Art and Design (BHSAD) in 2020. She enrolled at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow (ICA) and completed the first course in 2021. In the same year she started her master's degree at University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK). Before moving to Germany, she worked as a technologist in a printmaking studio, organized and led personal workshops on etching techniques, took part in exhibitions such as Blazar, Winzavod Open, "Ghostology of Post-Soviet Spaces" at HSE ART GALLERY, "Space inside us?" at Peresvetov Pereulok Gallery and others. Serafima Bresler started working at the BHSAD during her undergraduate studies in 2020 as a technologist and is currently a lecturer on a portfolio building course.
Research/professional practice interests:
Installation art
Printmaking techniques and textile
Studying individual and family memory
Research of the Chernobyl Archive, changes in society in Germany and Russia after the accident
Qualifications:
2021 - present
HFBK (University of Fine Arts Hamburg)
MA Time-based Art
2020-2021
ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), Moscow
2016 - 2020
BHSAD (British Higher School of Art and Design), Moscow
BA (Hons) Illustration, (2017-2020)
Fine Art Foundation Diploma (2016-2017)
Professional & Academic Activities (Exhibitions):
2021:
Time of Things, group exhibition, Winzavod, Moscow
Blazar: young contemporary art fair, group exhibition, Museum of Moscow, Moscow
...and make yourself at home, personal exhibition, Creative Diaspora, Moscow
Ghostology of Post-Soviet Spaces, group exhibition, HSE Art Gallery, Moscow
Space inside us?, group exhibition, Peresvetov Pereulok Gallery, Moscow
2020:
Chernovik, group exhibition, Union Printing on Winzavod, Moscow
Graduation Show, group exhibition, BHSAD, Moscow
2019:
Find a Friend, group exhibition, Gallery Electrozavod, Moscow
Music School, personal exhibition, Ground Gallery, Moscow
