BIO
Alisa Sizykh is a video artist based in Hamburg. She was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. From the age of five, she immersed herself in drawing, dancing, and acting, which later led her to study film and theatre directing at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. While her education in Ukraine was rooted in a conservative artistic tradition, her urge to critically rethink contemporary realities brought her to the Hamburg University of Fine Arts, where she now studies Time-Based Media.
Her artistic practice often begins from the personal and expands into urgent socio-political themes: truth and authenticity in an image-saturated world, the impact of war propaganda and the fragility of human inner state during political crisises. Blending documentary realism with symbolic fiction, she engage with time as a material, giving her works the quality of “living archives.” Known for her emotionally raw, nearly authentic storytelling, she creates poignant pieces that invite viewers to question societal norms, reflect on dominant narratives, and reconsider their own roles within broader global contexts.
Her work has been shown at international film festivals and group exhibitions across Europe, and she has participated in various artist residencies, including at the 39th Kasseler DOCFEST, Kyiv Biennial 2023, Kunsthaus Graz 2023, Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2024, and more. She is also an active member of ongoing artist-led initiatives such as ArtCamp Tangente and Artworkshops.hh.
EDUCATION
2020 - 2022 Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts (BA, film and theatre directing)
2022 - Present Hamburg University of Fine Arts (BA, time-based media, Jeanne Faust/Sung Tieu’s class)
2023 “STIBET I” funding program by DAAD
2024 - 2025 Hamburg Stipendium
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 "VER-SAMMELSTELLE" in MUMA Gallery, Hamburg, DE
"NaibudeKino" by the cultural group "CosmosCamp", Kyiv, UA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 “Stolen Past, Threatened Future” in Exhibit Eschenbachgasse by Office Ukraine, Vienna, AUT (read)
"Hybrid Peace | Day To Day War“ in Mom Art Space, Hamburg, DE
2024 "Der Zug war pünktlich" in ICAT HFBK Hamburg, DE
“Are you that body?” in Krupa Gallery by Art Project Revolution in frames of Warsaw Gallery Weekend, PL
"These Roots Are Made for Walking" - Art.Camp.Fest in Kunstraum Tangente Herbsthausen, Gartow, DE
"1 hour train ride" in Galerei Flut, Nebenflut, HFK Bremen, DE
“Hybrid Peace" in Mom Art Space, Hamburg, DE
"Observations on the Memory of the Present" in Galerie 21 im Vorwerk-Stift, Hamburg, DE
2023 "Are you here with us?" by the Antiwarcoalition.art in frames of Dutch Media Week and REMIX Fest at Hilversum, NL (read)
"Suit/Case" in Kunstraum Tangente, Vasenthien, DE
"Hybrid war" in Mom Art Space, Hamburg, DE
"Baby better have my menstruation. I ain’t no museum" in Kunsthaus Graz, AUT
"No peace is also no solution" in TEARAPART Gallery, Hamburg, DE
"Re: Feb. 24/UKR" in WESTWERK, Hamburg, DE
"LADYLAND" in Kanister, Hamburg, DE
"Sense of war" in Frappant Galerie, Hamburg, DE
2022 "Aggression explodes in silence" Art Space Kolo, virtual (access)
"Rapid Rabbit Reloaded" in Frappant Galerie, Hamburg, DE
"All this justifies thinking of..." in Mom Art Space, Hamburg, DE
"Contraspemspero", HFBK Hamburg, DE
"Without Restrictions" in Kunstraum Tangente, Wendland, DE
FILM FESTIVALS
2023, 2024 Ukrainian Kinomood Festival, Hamburg, DE
2022 39th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, DE
La Guarimba Film Festival, Amantea, IT
Svoiimy Slovamy ("Своїми Словами”), Kyiv, UA
Mediawave Film Festival Competition, Győr, HU
NaibudeKino, Kyiv, UA
2021 XII Muestra Audiovisual "Cortos de la polis Joven”, CR
Lift-Off Global Network Limited, GB
National Short Film Festival, Washington, US
AFTERLIFE Film Festival, Johannesburg, ZA
FILM SCREENINGS
2025 Solo screening "Monitor Ukraine #17” in Theater Magdeburg, DE (read)
2023 - 2022 Kyiv Biennial "Solidarity Screenings: Moving Image and War in Ukraine” in Amsterdam, Prague, Riga, Malmo, Bratislava, Vienna (read)
2022 Group screening with cultural group verSAMMELstelle in MUMA Gallery, Hamburg, DE
Group screening in "Monitor Ukraine” in Theater Magdeburg, DE
ART RESIDENCES
2025 Film Campus Innsbruck as part of DIAMETRALE film festival, AUT (read)
2022 Film residency "CINEMAMBULANTE – KINO GUARIMBA" by La Guarimba Film Festival, IT (read)
Art residence "UKRAINE: LEBEN, LIEBE, KRIEG UND FREIHEIT" by "Ukrainian days in Hamburg”, DE (read)
Art Camp Vasenthien 2022 with JANUN e.V & TANGENTE, Wendland, DE
OTHER ART PROJECTS
2022 - Present Co-organiser of “ArtCamp Tangente” - annual art-residencies for young artists hosted in Herbsthausen e.V, co-funded by the European Union and JANUN e.V, DE (more)
2023 - Present Co-organiser of “Artworkshops.hh” - integrative project providing free art workshops for children in Hamburg, supported by "FREIRÄUME! Initiative für kulturelle Integrationsprojekte”, Kulturestiftung, DE (more)
2024 Art workshop in Kunsthaus Hamburg as part of the “Dance, Dance, Revolution” exhibition, DE
2022 - 2024 Co-founder of “Ukrainian Kinomood Festival” and “KINOCLUB”, supported by Art Connects and the City of Hamburg’s Neu Start Kultur initiative, DE (more)
2023 Film workshop "Cinema without Racism" as part of the Ver-bilden Workshop by verSAMMELstelle collective, Hamburg, DE
FILMOGRAPHY
2021
Towards the sun (experimental, 05:33 min)
The Human voice (drama, 09:19 min)
P1250314 documentary dialogue of students 28.08.21 (documentary, 15:59 min)
2022
15.02.22-24.02.22 KYIV (documentary, 03:35)
Once I got lost at home... (experimental, 12:35 min)
The Girl with a Garnet (experimental/video installation, 03:00 min)
Siesta (experimental/video installation, 03:35 min)
Daniel Benjamin (musical documentary, 61:43)
2023
High School Graduation (experimental documentary, 50:48/20:55 min)
Circles (music video, 04:22 min)
Sticky Sun (music video, 02:18 min)
Art Diary (documentary, 05:07 min)
The Tale of the Little Girl (fiction, 03:42)
2024
Drop In (documentary/immersive video installation, 14:32 min)
Music Clips (music video, 04:45 min)
Gong Collection (commercial, 01:05 min)
Electricity (music video, 04:02 min)
Dreams (music video, 03:53 min)