Elikuka

Composed of Oleg Eliseev and Evgeny Kukoverov, Elikuka is a Russian collective active since 2007. Formed through collaborations with artists such as Georgy Ostretsov, Georgy Litichevsky and the Viennese collective Gelitin, Elikuka creates kinetic and interactive installations in which the viewer is invited to take action with the works. The collective embraces experimentation, plays on the irony of situations, and seeks to overturn habits; it refers to art history and to the codes of art venues and museums in order to better subvert them. They are also members of the punk music group I.H.N.A.B.T.B.

Arriving in France in 2022, they are members of the Agency of Artists in Exile. Rooted in the absurd in art, their actions are dada, calling for a joyful imagination and surprise. Their guiding principle is collaboration, participatory works, and friendship, working with numerous artists on collective projects and exhibitions, and building alliances and artistic collectives such as XY, Manufacture Marcadet, Artistic Solitude, Kolbein Hugi (Iceland), RatRights (Austria), and the Gelitin collective (Austria).​

In 2022, upon arriving in France, Elikuka created the music collective Traumpunkt, based on improvisation. They have presented solo exhibitions including Rough Route at MAMM, the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (2017), LOSS at Galerie Stanislas Bourgain (2023), the happening Football migratoire at the Agency of Artists in Exile in Paris (2024), and the performance Café Cascade at Espace Albatros in Montreuil (2025).