Andrey Ustinov (*1975, Luga / former USSR) is a Berlin-based performance and media artist working on issues of technology and media, perspective and perception, property and the commons, power and energy. His work focuses on the cognitive activity of pedestrians and their arbitrary actions in public space. Most of Ustinov’s works have a performative approach in which he either appears as a performer or initiates a technologically mediated situation that forces either the invited audience or the random, often completely unsuspecting passer-by to participate in a shared experience. This is how Ustinov develops his dance and walking performances, street furniture and posters, devices and apps, walk-through sculptures and installations, films and photographs, in which sound, light, image and electricity become artistic actors in their own right.

He was granted by Kunstfond Art Foundation, Bonn / Germany (2022), Academy of Arts Berlin (2021), IFA Stuttgart (2021), Goethe Institute (2016), shortlisted for The Innovation Art Prize by NCCA Moscow Russia (2007), participated in numerous international exhibitions, biennials, and festivals, among others, CityLeaks Festival in Cologne / Germany (2019), Media Art Biennial WRO in Wrocław / Poland (2017), Flaherty at Anthology Film Archives NYC / USA (2013), Rendez-vous at MAC Lyon / France (2008), 50th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen / Germany (2004), 1st Prague Biennale / Czech (2003).