Aleksandr Delev practices a hybrid of design, architecture and media. He is interested navigating between image and object by creating an infinite dream-like environment. His works explore the creative possibilities of various materials, forms and patterns intending to create a landscape, sort of psycho-geography.
He obtained M.Sc. Architecture degree at the Bauhaus–University in Weimar. During his studies Aleksandr was co-founder and editor of Am Strand magazine, ArchitekturApotheke in Leipzig and the ongoing meme–zine project on Environment Silicity Protocols. He apprenticed in several architecture offices in Munich and Sydney, inlcuding Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge and the magazine ARCH+ in Berlin. Aleksandr's work has been exhibited in various places such as; Alcova Milano, Trafo Gallery, Tallinn Architecture Biennale, Dutch Design Week, downtown+ and zaza space.
Delev’s approach involves subjective and computational explorations — condensing an emotional and perceptual relationship between matter, spaces, and images. His works are part of a correlated landscape that engages with memory, ecology, and cultural imprints. His artistic research maps alternative approaches to Modernism and other normative worldviews. He seeks to depict a different environment aside from utilitarian and universalist prescription yet enriched and stimulated with digital apophenias and lost-in-translation gestures by proposing to associate pre-architectural sentience.
Photo: Leon Grunau