Angelina Kozhevnikova is a Rotterdam-based transdisciplinary artist and researcher whose practice Animaspace explores how humans, robots, and environments co-shape one another through interactive installations and performances. Her work reimagines dominant technological imaginaries, proposing relational and embodied alternatives grounded in presence and co-agency. Alongside her artistic practice, she researches Human–Robot Collaboration at TU Delft.
Her projects have been exhibited internationally and supported by major Dutch and European cultural and academic institutions. She is the winner of the Edigma Semibreve Award, AUAS Research of the Year, and a Lumen Prize nominee.
- Across my projects, I treat interaction as a form of shared attention and attunement. I build robots that do not mimic us, but invite us to shift our perception. Much of my work is grounded in the idea of the joint cognitive system, where human and machine form a temporary unity that unfolds across space and time. In this state, meaning is not produced through commands or recognition, but through mutual adjustment and embodied presence.
Existentially, my work is guided by the question: How do we discover ourselves through encountering an other that does not conform to us, one that reveals who we are in ways we can only understand intuitively? I treat the unknown as a space of possibility, where meeting a different form of intelligence becomes a form of introspection.
Ethically, my practice asks: What does care mean when it is not something we give, but a capacity we maintain together across differences? Many of my installations investigate distributed forms of care, where humans and non-humans shape each other through responsiveness, vulnerability and attention.
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I/Another — Silver Egg. The Eros of Media Art
Story of a Gentle Machine — A Room Neighboring the Planet
Why I Make Robots That Move With You — TEDxVUAmsterdam
In this TEDx talk, I shared the personal and artistic journey behind Animaspace and I/Another. Through encounters with a robot that moves with people, I explored how we become alive through movement, relation and collaboration with something we cannot fully understand or control.
Solaris: −1 residency and prototype presentation
Shared Spaces — Robotic Relations Symposium
I/Another — Highlight Delft
Story of a Gentle Machine — Art Residency ArtEra, Erasmus MC
Animaspace: Conversations with Robots as Existential and Ethical Inquiry
Solaris — artist residency at TU Eindhoven
Becoming Animaspace
I/Another — TRYDAY at V2_
Project supported by the Municipality of Rotterdam and Creative Industries Fund NL.
Co-creating I/Another: Body Languages - How to Talk to a Machine?
An embodied research workshop with the ArtGang community, exploring human and robot body languages. Through movement and collective interpretation, we investigated how differently people express and read the same gesture. These encounters informed the development of I/Another as an open-ended physical conversation. Project supported by the Municipality of Rotterdam and Creative Industries Fund NL
Open Lab I/Another prototype
I/Another prototype at Performance Technology Lab
Workshop The Performance Technology Lab is a nomadic workshop for performing artists who use technology in their dramatic universe: video, audio, mapping, tracking, live cinema, Arduino, robots, drones, AI, VR, AR and what not. Experiment We build the workshop that is needed around artistic concepts in development. What technology do you need to develop your concept? We organize the right equipment and knowledge for experiment and research.
Robots4Commons — participatory robotic making
A week-long participatory project bringing an industrial robot into collective making with residents of De Deysselbuurt. Children and women explored building structures and textile patterns together with the robot. Human ingenuity, material choices and machine movement became part of a shared creative process.
Coordinated Film
Artist Talk " Introducing Animaspace"
Coordinated Installation-Performance
“Infinite versions of Jakoba Mulder”
Circular Wood for the Neighborhood
Signals exhibtiion at Oyoun, Berlin
Signals artist residency
Networks and Artistic Interventions ow can we communicate in times of authoritarian regimes? The focus of this two-week artist lab is hidden network communication and use of drones. This project is made possible with funds from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Flexible Adaptive Design Systems and School of Thought Behind them
Design in the Age of Crisis
CityX Venice
“Radical Gravity” as part of CityX Venice