Alexander Iskin (*1990) lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City. His practice spans painting, sculpture, performance, and writing, through which he develops a multimedia narrative. Painting serves as his “mother tongue.” With Interrealism, he has proclaimed his own artistic movement. In his paintings, biomorphic forms are set against layered surfaces and deep pictorial spaces. The high degree of abstraction allows the figurative fragments to evoke a wide range of associations.

 

Across his wide-ranging body of work, Iskin explores the accelerating transformation of the world driven by digitalisation. He playfully counters the resulting processes of virtualisation and dehumanisation with his own postmodern myth. In his painting, he translates the traditions of modernism into the present. In 2025, his novel Rabbits Are Strange, When You Are a Stranger was published by the New York-based publisher Mudfish.

 

Iskin’s work is exhibited internationally. In 2020, the Mönchehaus Museum Goslar presented a solo exhibition of his work. He received the Kaiserring Fellowship and was awarded a fellowship from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in New York. His works have been shown in cities including Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, and Mexico City, and most recently he participated in the 3rd Wuhan Biennale at the Qintai Art Museum in China.