Alissa Volchkova

Lives and works in Paris

Alissa Volchkova is a Franco-Russian designer and artist working in Paris. After several years of experience in architecture, she changed the scale of her projects to produce objects. Her work poetically explores various processes of production, revealing their uniqueness and developing the potential of surrounding materials by pushing their limits. Central to her work is the theme of movement, achieved through experimental techniques that blend tradition with innovation. She draws inspiration from historical methods like the 16th-century Venetian ‘ice glass’ technique while also embracing the spontaneity of slip movement and the unpredictable dynamics of kiln firing. Volchkova’s creations balance adaptation with control, pushing materials to their limits to form distinctive, progressive shapes that are both beautiful and original.

Alissa Volchkova CV

 

Education

MA Royal College of Art, London, UK
Ecole Camondo, Paris, France

Exhibitions

2024 - Design Miami - Basel, Galerie Scene Ouverte, Basel, Switzerland
2024 - PAD Paris, Galerie Scene Ouverte, Paris
2023 - Design Miami, Galerie Scene Ouverte, Miami US
2023 - Endgame group show, Secci Gallery, Pietrasanta, Italy
2023 - New perspectives in glass, Swing Design Gallery, Benevento, Italy
2023 - Venice Design Biennial for Swing Design Gallery, Venice, Italy
2023 - PAD Paris, Objects With Narratives gallery, Paris, France
2023 - COLLECT Somerset House, PIKD Pieces Gallery, London
2022 - Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Objects with Love, Switzerland
2020 - Cosmoscow Art Fair, represented by Fabula Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020 - Honey Me, curated by Artecetera and Atelier Lachaert Dhanis, Tielrode, Belgium
2020 - Design Museum Gent - Kleureyck, Gent, Belgium
2020 - Objects With Love, curated by Connie Husser, ECAL, Renens, Switzerland
2020 - Collectible - Curated Section, Brussels, Belgium
2019 - Alcova Sassetti, Milan, Italy
2019 - Private Choice, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2019 - Collect Art Fair, Crafts Council and Cynthia Corbett, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2018 - 1000 Vases, Meet My Project, Paris, France
2018 - Collect Art Fair, Crafts Council and Cynthia Corbett, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2017 - Operae design fair, Turin, Italy
2017 - Now! Le Off, design week, Paris, France
2017 - Materialia, Swing Design Gallery, Benevento, Italy
2017 - Morphosis, Schloss Hollenegg for Design, curated by Alice Stori Liechtenstein, Austria
2017 - Ventura Lambrate - Composed exhibition, Milan, Italy
2017 - Collect Art Fair, Crafts Council and Cynthia Corbett, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2016 -Young Masters, Royal Opera Arcade gallery, London, UK
2016 - London Design Fair - Collaboration with Form & Seek designers, UK
2016 - London Craft Week, Royal College of Art, curated by Sarah Griffin, UK
2016 - The Emerging and The Established, Christie’s South Kensington, London, UK
2015 - Ceramic Art London, UK

Press


Vogue, Russia

Financial Times, UK

IDEAT, France

Architectural Digest, France

Architectural Digest, Germany

Côté Sud Magazine, France

Côté Paris Magazine, France

Interior + Design, Russia

Beaux Arts Magazine, France

L’Officiel Collector spécial design 2017-2018, France

Le Monde, France

Milk Decoration, France

Living Corriere, Italy

Globe and Mail, Canada

Crafts Magazine, UK

Home Journal, HK

Art and Houses, Russia

www.designboom.com

www.dezeen.com

www.designmilk.com

www.sightunseen.com

www.sayhito.com

www.interior.ru

www.woth.co

www.domusweb.it

www.cfileonline.com

www.materialdriven.com

www.designlines.de

www.journal.hr