Their creative process often begins long before engaging with physical materials, exploring anthropological, environmental, and more-than-human phenomena within peripheral territories. These landscapes—ranging from abandoned military islands and UN buffer zones to post-Soviet wastelands—reveal ambiguous narratives that merge artificial and natural origins, forming hybrid topographies.
Seeking to escape the confines of such dystopian realities, Sasha create installations, sculptures and furniture that transcend boundaries, evoke fantasy, and convey poetic elements.
based between Berlin and Tallinn
sasha.tishkoff(at)gmail(dot)com
@sashatishkov_
2020 We Didn’t Pay to be Here / Fur the Future, w/ Ola Hincapie, East London derelict building
2019 Paradise is Here, curated by Claudia Contu, Tension Fine Art, London
2018 Hüpoteetiline Paradiis, Tartu Kunstimaja Monumentaalgalerii, Tartu
They Began to Talk, curated by Ann Mirjam Vaikla & Hannah Laura Kaljo, KUMU, Tallinn
2024
Una Boccata d’Arte 2024, curated by Virginia Lupo, promoted by Fondazione Elpis in collab. with Galleria Continua, Dolcedo
2023
Gilbert Bayes Award 2022, curated by Thorp Stavri, The Art House, Wakefield
Gilbert Bayes Award 2022, curated by Thorp Stavri, Dora House, London
2022
Save the Mermaid, w/ Mürmaid, Paris Fashion Week, Paris
Unfamiliar Forms, curated by Kristina Kazantseva, London Design Festival, Set Kensington, London
Mushrooms in Paris, w/ Darren Romanelli & Mürmaid, Over the Influence, Paris
Tuur Skulptuur, Telliskivi Roheline Saal, curated by Mara Ljutluk & Bianka Soe, Tallinn
2021
Last Sunset, New Sunrise, St John on Bethnal Green, London
Tottenham Sculpture Garden, Grow Tottenham Community Garden, London
2020
Tartu Interdistsiplinaar, curated by Einike Leppik, galerii Noorus, Tartu
2018
Overprint, Centre de la gravure et de l’image imprimée, La Louvière
The Grass is Greener HERE, curated by Eve Stotesbury & Jessie Krish, Byron Court, London
What Can We Make and Become, curated by Sasha Burkhanova-Khabadze, Exposed Arts Projects, London
2016
Tavalise eksootika, curated by Anneli Porri, Tallinna Linnagalerii, Tallinn
Una Boccata d'Arte 2024. 20 artisti 20 borghi 20 regioni, Fondazione Elpis, 2024
Laura De Jaeger, The Roots and Routes, or Dwellings on Material Tuur Skulptuur echo gone wrong, 2022
Amalia Charikiopoulou, Paradise is Lost, 2020
Yalda Bidshahri, Paradise is Here, 2019
Claudia Contu, Few Notes on Games, Fiction, and Ecological Awarness, 2019
Elin Kard, 16th Annual Exhibition of Estonian Artists’ Association, Printon, 2016
Imago Mundi & ECADC, Estonia, Identity, 2016
Gilbert Bayes Award, Royal Society of Sculptors, 2022
Clifford Chance Sculpture Award shortlisted, 2019
Societe Generale Sculpture Commission shortlisted, 2018
The Mona Hatoum Bursary, University of the Arts London, 2017
Study Abroad Scholarship, Eesti Kultuurkapital, 2016
2025 upcoming Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz
2024 Make and Reuse Creative Workshops: Circular Carpentry II, ACAVA, London
2024 CampScape, CYENS, Lefkosia
2023/24 Klosterbergfabrik, Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald
2023 Make and Reuse Creative Workshops: Circular Carpentry, ACAVA, London
2013 MoKS, Mooste
2015 Kõrgem Kunstikool Pallas, Diploma in Sculpture, Tartu
2014 Latvijas Makslas Akademija, Erasmus+, Riga
sasha.tishkoff(at)gmail(dot)com
@sashatishkov_
selected solo/duo shows
2023 So Comes Snow After Fire, Voga Progetto d’Arte Contemporanea, Bari2020 We Didn’t Pay to be Here / Fur the Future, w/ Ola Hincapie, East London derelict building
2019 Paradise is Here, curated by Claudia Contu, Tension Fine Art, London
2018 Hüpoteetiline Paradiis, Tartu Kunstimaja Monumentaalgalerii, Tartu
selected group shows
2025They Began to Talk, curated by Ann Mirjam Vaikla & Hannah Laura Kaljo, KUMU, Tallinn
2024
Una Boccata d’Arte 2024, curated by Virginia Lupo, promoted by Fondazione Elpis in collab. with Galleria Continua, Dolcedo
2023
Gilbert Bayes Award 2022, curated by Thorp Stavri, The Art House, Wakefield
Gilbert Bayes Award 2022, curated by Thorp Stavri, Dora House, London
2022
Save the Mermaid, w/ Mürmaid, Paris Fashion Week, Paris
Unfamiliar Forms, curated by Kristina Kazantseva, London Design Festival, Set Kensington, London
Mushrooms in Paris, w/ Darren Romanelli & Mürmaid, Over the Influence, Paris
Tuur Skulptuur, Telliskivi Roheline Saal, curated by Mara Ljutluk & Bianka Soe, Tallinn
2021
Last Sunset, New Sunrise, St John on Bethnal Green, London
Tottenham Sculpture Garden, Grow Tottenham Community Garden, London
2020
Tartu Interdistsiplinaar, curated by Einike Leppik, galerii Noorus, Tartu
2018
Overprint, Centre de la gravure et de l’image imprimée, La Louvière
The Grass is Greener HERE, curated by Eve Stotesbury & Jessie Krish, Byron Court, London
What Can We Make and Become, curated by Sasha Burkhanova-Khabadze, Exposed Arts Projects, London
2016
Tavalise eksootika, curated by Anneli Porri, Tallinna Linnagalerii, Tallinn
bibliography
Ann Mirjam Vaikla, Hanna Laura Kaljo, Outi Autti, Mirjam Pavre, They Began to Talk, Eesti Kunstimuuseum, 2025Una Boccata d'Arte 2024. 20 artisti 20 borghi 20 regioni, Fondazione Elpis, 2024
Laura De Jaeger, The Roots and Routes, or Dwellings on Material Tuur Skulptuur echo gone wrong, 2022
Amalia Charikiopoulou, Paradise is Lost, 2020
Yalda Bidshahri, Paradise is Here, 2019
Claudia Contu, Few Notes on Games, Fiction, and Ecological Awarness, 2019
Elin Kard, 16th Annual Exhibition of Estonian Artists’ Association, Printon, 2016
Imago Mundi & ECADC, Estonia, Identity, 2016
scholarships & grants
Developing your Creative Practice, Arts Council England, 2024Gilbert Bayes Award, Royal Society of Sculptors, 2022
Clifford Chance Sculpture Award shortlisted, 2019
Societe Generale Sculpture Commission shortlisted, 2018
The Mona Hatoum Bursary, University of the Arts London, 2017
Study Abroad Scholarship, Eesti Kultuurkapital, 2016
residencies & workshops
2025 upcoming Stuudio Labus, Lehtse2025 upcoming Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz
2024 Make and Reuse Creative Workshops: Circular Carpentry II, ACAVA, London
2024 CampScape, CYENS, Lefkosia
2023/24 Klosterbergfabrik, Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald
2023 Make and Reuse Creative Workshops: Circular Carpentry, ACAVA, London
2013 MoKS, Mooste
education
2018 Central Saint Martins, MA Fine Art Distinction, London2015 Kõrgem Kunstikool Pallas, Diploma in Sculpture, Tartu
2014 Latvijas Makslas Akademija, Erasmus+, Riga