Artworks by Alex Kott

Alex Kott is a contemporary visual artist whose practice is currently centred on the long-term project The Way of Flowers — a series of one thousand paintings conceived over a period of 10–20 years as a single continuous artwork.

Within this framework, each painting is understood not as an autonomous piece, but as a temporal fragment of one ongoing image, repeatedly revisited and rearticulated at different moments in the artist’s life. Kott’s practice focuses on repetition, duration and the transformation of an image through sustained manual return to a single motif; painting here functions as a form of temporal inquiry rather than the production of finished objects.

A central component of his work is the public exposure of the process of making: during exhibitions, the artist continues to paint flowers directly in the gallery space, turning the exhibition into an active studio and blurring the boundary between creation and display. Viewers encounter not only the result, but also the unfolding of artistic thinking itself — with its pauses, hesitation, revision, error, and the constant tension between intuition and control.

Prior to The Way of Flowers, Kott developed painting and photographic projects and took part in group exhibitions in Perm, Moscow, Kharkiv, Chicago and New York. He is now focused on this multi-year cycle as the main axis of his practice.