Hello, I'm Alexandra Pikunova, an artist based in Munich, and this is my blue visual diary.
In my art practice I explore the relationship between people and architecture - not from the perspective of architects, but of everyday individuals who live in, pass by, and respond to buildings. I'm interested in how architecture shapes social behavior and how, in return, people assign personal and cultural meaning to buildings and individual architectural elements.
In my the Balcony (Der Balkon) series, I focus on the balcony as a space suspended between private and public life. A small architectural element, carrying the code of unification, acquires unique features that its owner endows it with.
Growing up surrounded by architecture of the 1970s and 80s, I’ve absorbed its visual language - geometric forms, repetition, raw concrete - and this continues to influence how I see and structure the world around me. In my the Water (Das Wasser) series, I juxtapose the unpredictable movement of the sea with my urge to impose geometric order. This tension reflects my inner experience: the pull between chaos and control, nature and structure.
Cyanotype is my main medium because it naturally connects with these themes. I return it to its original function - reproducing architectural drawings, and it also helps to reflect the ideas of memory, time, and disappearance, that are inextricably linked to architecture as a silent witness to human presence, absence, and change. Through my work, I aim to reflect on architecture not just as form, but as a social and emotional space.
Exhibitions
2025 Das Wasser series presentation at DON Gallery (Munich/Germany)
2025 Art Aid Charity Market (Munich/Germany)
2025 NOTAGALLERY Art Market (Berlin/Germany)
2024 Micro Art Gallery - Art is a Present by PLATFORM (Munich/Germany)
2024 Happy End Hotel by Broke.Today (Munich/Germany)
2024 KULAB Kunst Markt (Munich/Germany)
2023 Personal exhibition at Seidlvilla Kulturzentrum Schwabing (Munich/Germany)
2023 Online collective exhibition at HAZE gallery (Berlin/Germany)
2023 Collective exhibition at Art Number 23 gallery (Salzburg/Austria)
Publications
2025 100 Art Photography Vol. 5 VWORLD NNC Gallery
