Katerina Belkina
Artist Statement:
It has always been fascinating for me to explore the psychology of people’s relationships with each other and with the outside world, to give shape to human emotions. To take joy, despondency, indifference, rapture and jealousy to pieces. Feelings are abstract, therefore it is so interesting to look for and find the form of their visualization.
My face and body are the main instruments I use to incarnate the images I want. Standing in front of the camera as a model, I follow the age-old theatrical practice of playing roles. It gives impetus to the development of my own manner of narration. A part of my work, shooting is akin to a theatrical performance, where an urge to tell the viewer about emotions and feelings manifests itself through the characters in dialogues with the audience.
A passion for classical art and interest in everything new – technology, discoveries, experiments – led me to the type of mixed media, with which I work. From painting, I take colors and create air as an element of space. Reality and character I take from photography. My style originates from a long artistic tradition – collage. That is how my characters and spaces come together. At the next stage, I choose a brush of a graphics program. This is a subtle and accurate tool to create a light, weightless atmosphere similar to that of a dream.
In my creative work, I am not searching for the subjects of thought. They spring from everyday life and observations of the people around. Choosing a motif for my exploration, I offer the audience a female view on things, which concern me. Undoubtedly, this view is based on feminist principles. Yet, the matter is not in confrontation, but in balance and harmony, where a woman is not an object, but foremost – energy.
Katerina Belkina
place of birth: Samara, USSR
nationality: Russian
family status: married
address: Werder (Havel), Germany
website: www.belkina.art
WORK EXPERIENCE:
since 2003: Artist in Moscow and since October 2013 in Berlin
since 2006: course instructor at Photo School 'Fotoplay' in Moscow
2002 – 2005: Art teacher on the 2. primary school in Odincovo, region Moscow
2001 – 2002: Art Director, at the state regional television channel, Samara
1995 – 2000: DTP and Design at Fedorov Publishing House, Samara
AWARDS:
2016: Fine Art Photography Awards, 1st Prize for series: Revival
2016: Hasselblad Masters 2016, 1st Prize in the category Art
2015: Moscow International Foto Awards, 1st Prize in 2 categories
2015: International Lucas-Cranach-Prize, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, 1st Prize
2014: Moscow International Foto Awards, 1st Prize in category Fine Art
2012: International Photography Awards, 1st Prize in 3 categories
2011: PX3, The Prix de la Photographie, 1st Prize for series: Empty Spaces
2010: PX3, The Prix de la Photographie, 1st Prize in portrait's category
2008: Art Interview, Berlin, 14th International Online Artist Competition, 1st Prize
2008: Art4.ru Museum Awards, Moscow
2008: International Photography Awards, 2nd Prize for series: Not a Man's World
2008: PX3, The Prix de la Photographie, 1st Prize for series: Paint
2008: PX3, The Prix de la Photographie, 2nd Prize for series: Not a Man's World
2007: Kandinsky Prize, Moscow, Nominee for Project of the Year
2007: International Photography Awards, 2nd Prize in subcategory
COLLECTIONS:
- Carla & Hugo Brown Collection / NL
- Edgar Schermerhorn Collection / NL
- HBC Global Art Collection, New York / US
- Stiftung Christliche Kunst, Lutherstadt Wittenberg / DE
- The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg / RU
- Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen / DE
BIENNALES:
2017:
- re_form, 11. Internationale Ausstellung zeitgenössischer Künste OSTRALE, Dresden / DE
2016:
- 5th Mediations Biennale - Fundamental, Poznan / PL
2015:
- The Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat / AU
2011:
- Empty Spaces, exhibition in the framework of the 4th Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Fotoloft Galerie, Moscow / RU
- Young Artists Project 2011: Future Lab, Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu / KR
2009:
- The First Russian Museum Photobiennale, The State Russian Museum, St.-Petersburg / RU
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2017:
- AlterEgo, CreArte Studio, Oderzo / IT
- Repast, Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen / DE
- Katerina Belkina, ZEITGALERIE Kamenzer Strasse 19, Dresden / DE
- Katerina Belkina, Direktorenhaus - Museum für Kunst Handwerk Design, Berlin / DE
2016:
- Photobastei, Zurich / CH
- VDNH, pavilion #59 „Grain", One Picture Museum, Moscow / RU
- Paint, Faur Zs.fi Gallery, Budapest / HU
- Ideal Beauty - Beauty Ideals, Part 3, Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen / DE
- Humanism, CreArte Studio, Oderzo / IT
2015:
- Revival, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / NL
- The Sinner, Being 3 Gallery, Beijing / CN
2014:
- Empty Spaces, Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica / US
2011:
- Empty Spaces, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / NL
2010:
- Katerina Belkina, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / NL
2008:
- Not a Man‘s World, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / NL
- 25 women I loved, FotoLoft Gallery, Moscow / RU
2007:
- A.M. Gorky Literary Memorial Museum, Kazan / RU
2004:
- Charity personal exhibition and sale for the fund 'Children's Hearts Foundation', Moscow / RU
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2017:
- NordArt 2017, International Art Exhibition, Buedelsdorf / DE
- CRANACH. Meister - Marke - Moderne, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf / DE
- Portraits - Hellerau Photography Award, HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden / DE
- Tokio International Foto Awards, Winners Exhibition, Tokio / JP
- Nature Morte. Contemporary Artists Revive the Still Life, National Museum Wroclaw / PL
- HUMAN/DIGITAL: a symbiotic love affair, Kunsthal Rotterdam / NL
- L’ELEGANCE, Russiantearoom Gallery, Paris / France
2016:
- Art Affair 2, Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover / DE
- PhotograpHER, Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia / IT
- Urban Touch, Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover / DE
- error: x, OSTRALE – Festival for Contemporary Arts, Dresden / DE
- Sweet, Schau Fenster - Schauraum für Kunst, Berlin / DE
- NordArt 2016, International Art Exhibition, Buedelsdorf / DE
- Until It Turns Slightly Pink..., C.A.M Gallery, Istanbul / TR
- Artgeschoss, Braunschweig / DE
- SKIN, The Ballery, Berlin / DE
- 5 Dimensions of Beauty, MART8, Yekaterinburg / RU
2015:
- Cranach 2.0, Der Internationale Lucas-Cranach-Preis, Kronach / DE
- Fotosommer, Erfurt / DE
- Wiesbadener Fototage, Wiesbaden / DE
- NordArt 2015, International Art Exhibition, Buedelsdorf / DE
- Russian Contemporary Art Week, The Ballery, Berlin / DE
- Restart, NET/RRJET-Edition VII, Prishtina / Kosovo
- Humble me, AEROPLASTICS contemporary, Brussels / BE
- Cranach und die Moderne, Stiftung Christliche Kunst Wittenberg / DE
- Cranach 2.0, Der Internationale Lucas-Cranach-Preis, Exerzierhalle Wittenberg / DE
- Spring Exhibition, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / NL
2014:
- Gestalten, Brau.ART, Dessau / DE
- Solemn, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / NL
2013:
- Heusden in Springtime, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / NL
2012:
- Winter-expo, Absolute Art Gallery, Bruges / BE
- Autumn Exhibition, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / NL
- Madre Russia, Museo Civico di Asolo, Asolo / IT
- Gop-art, Street art festival, 16th Line Gallery, Rostov-on-Don / RU
- 2nd Photospectrum Int 2012, Crossover 3+1, Gallery Jinsun, Seoul / KR
2011:
- 5 Ans de Photographie . l’Espace Art 22, Art 22 Gallery, Brussels / BE
2010:
- Life’s Journey… to Heusden, Summer Exhibition, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / NL
- Living Perm 2010, Living Perm Contemporary Art Festival, Perm/ RU
- Russian artists, Abbaye St Andr. - Centre d'art contemporain, Meymac, Meymac / FR
- Russian Tales, EXPRMNTL Galerie, Toulouse / FR
- Contes Russes, EXPRMNTL Galerie, Toulouse / FR
2009:
- Die Winterreise, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / NL
- Summer Salon, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / NL
- On the trace of Turgenev, Galerie d'exposition du Beffroi, Namur / BE
2008:
-You are an Artist!, Art4.ru - contemporary art museum, Moscow / RU
- Young galleriest / Young collectors, Pop/Off/Art Gallery, Moscow / RU
- Russian Fairy tales, RTR Gallery - Russiantearoom, Paris / FR
- Summer Exhibition, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / NL
- Contes Russes, Ancien Mus.e de Peinture, Grenoble / FR
2007:
- white fair, Espace ART 22, Brussels / BE
- Exhibition of Kandinsky Prize Nominees, Winzavod - Moscow Contemporary Art Center, Moscow / RU
2006:
- Fotofusion, Shalyapin’s Museum, Moscow and St.-Petersburg / RU
2003:
- Ann Arbor Galerie, Ann Arbor / US
2002:
- Russian Eye, works by Russian photographers, The Arts Project, TAP. Gallery, London / CA
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