Biography
Tatiana Gerasimenok (born May 5, 1992) is a Belarusian-Polish conceptual artist, composer, and experimental music theatre director, as well as a cognitive analyst, interdisciplinary researcher, and performative writer based in Germany. With a practice deeply rooted in the experience of systemic displacement and social turbulence, Gerasimenok has established a visionary practice at the intersection of cognitive science, psychology, and sonic architecture. Her work deconstructs the fundamental frameworks of contemporary culture and human behavior, operating as a strategic intervention into social structures and cultural taboos.
Through her movement, XENOGLAMOUR, she treats art as a precise psychological tool to investigate the thresholds of the human mind, dissolving the boundary between artistic gesture and cognitive research. In her sonic environments, primal energy is synthesized with the cold, mechanical logic of a post-human future — fusing intricate compositional depth with raw, visceral intensity.
Occupying the tension between the primordial and the technological, Gerasimenok’s practice reveals the hidden hierarchical structures embedded within systems of participation. Her multisensory formats intensify perception and activate latent cognitive processes, unsettling habitual patterns of thought and redefining the relationship between the subject and the system.
Born in Shklov, Belarus, Tatiana studied musicology at the Mogilev Rimsky-Korsakov Music College and composition at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Yuri Kasparov. Her artistic development was further shaped by private study with renowned composers including Brian Ferneyhough, Pierluigi Billone, Beat Furrer, Alvin Lucier, Tristan Murail, Heinz Holliger, Peter Ablinger, Mark Andre, and Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, among others.
Her work has been featured at festivals and events worldwide, including the MATA Festival (New York) and the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Darmstadt), and has been performed by ensembles and soloists such as the JACK Quartet, Ensemble Multilatérale, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Ine Vanoeveren, Dejana Sekulić, Michiko Saiki, and the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia.
Tatiana has participated in residencies and academies worldwide, including Académie Voix Nouvelles (France), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Künstlerhaus Lukas, Künstlerstadt Kalbe, and Künstlerhaus Salzwedel (all Germany), EBMF International Summer Academy for Young Composers (New York, USA), and the Pyrenees-Mediterranean Creation Residence (Spain).
She has received numerous awards at composers’ competitions, including First Prize at the Seventh International Composers' Competition of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Russia); the 18th A. Petrov Open Composers Competition (Symphonic Music, St. Petersburg, Russia); the I International Composition Competition New Music Generation 2019 (Kazakhstan); and the Ad Libitum Composition Competition (Germany).
Tatiana Gerasimenok has taught composition and music theory at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
Building on a rigorous academic foundation in art and psychological counseling, Gerasimenok’s research explores the evolutionary transition toward advanced cognitive paradigms. In parallel with her creative work, she operates as a Principal Advisor and Mentor, working with forward-thinking individuals to architect the future of perception and higher-order decision-making systems for visionary networks.
Beyond her work with strategic leadership, Gerasimenok applies her methodology to “invisible” social ecosystems. Acting as a social architect, she designs participatory environments for groups in conditions of deep isolation (the elderly, displaced persons, and neurodivergent groups). In these contexts, collective interdisciplinary practices serve as a tool for cognitive regeneration and existential agency.