Egor G. Kraft is an artist, thinker, filmmaker and critical designer whose work acknowledges the disrupted modern condition as a consequence of radical techno-cultural planetary reconfiguration. He lives a mobile life, splitting his time between western Europe and eastern Asia, with homes in Tokyo and Vienna, as well as deep ties to London and Berlin.
Kraft acquired his education from Gerlesborgsskolan School of Fine Art (Gerlesborg, SE), Rodchenko Art School (Moscow, RU), Academy of Fine Arts (Vienna, AT), Central Saint Martin’s College (London, UK) and ‘The New Normal’ at Strelka Institute (Moscow, RU). He was a research fellow at the University of Southampton (Southampton, UK) and Geidai University (Tokyo, JP). Kraft's multi-award winning work has exhibited worldwide, including festivals Ars Electronica (Linz, AT), Siggraph Asia (Tokyo, JP), Impakt Festival, (Utrecht, NL), WRO Biennial (Wroclaw, PL), and such institutions as ZKM (Karlsruhe, DE), MAXXI (Rome, IT), Jeu De Paume (Paris, FR), Onassis Foundation (Athens, GR), Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, RU), Espacio Fundación Telefónica (Madrid, ES), iMAL (Brussels, BE) and many other museums and galleries. Kraft is the recipient of the 2023 Lumen Prize (UK), the 2022 New Technological Art Award (BE), the 2023 S+T+ARTS Prize honourable mention (EU), the 2022 Austrian Blockchain Award (AT), and numerous other awards and nominations. He is a lecturer at European and Asian universities, author of publications and speaker at international conferences, including Art Machines 2 (Hong Kong, CN), Politics Of The Machines (Berlin, DE), Ethics & Aesthetics of Artificial Images (Venice, IT) and other conferences.
