Nationality Russian | Website belkina.ru | |
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Born 16 April 1974 (age 42) ( 1974-04-16 ) Kuibyshev, Samara, Russia Occupation photographer and painter | ||
Katerina Belkina (born 1974, Samara, Russia) is a Russian contemporary pictoralist photographer and painter whose work redefines the aesthetics of woman in the 21st century. She digitally manipulates many of her photographs to appear as paintings, and most often uses herself as the model in her work. Her photography series include Paint, Home Work, Not A Man’s World, Empty Spaces, Hieroglyph of my Body, Revival, and Light and Heavy.
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Katerina belkina
Life
Belkina grew up in an artistic family. Her mother was also an artist. From 1989 Belkina studied at the Art School and on the Petrow-Vodkin art academy in Samara. From 1994 - 1999 she worked at the publishing house Fedorow in Samara. 2000 she started to study at the Michael-Musorin school for photography in her hometown where she studied till 2002. At the same time she worked as a computer graphic designer at a Russian television channel.
In 2007, Belkina was nominated for the Russian Kandinsky Prize. 2009/2010 at the 1st Photo Biennale of Russian Museum at marble Palace in St. Petersburg. In 2011, she was in the framework of the Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art an exhibition curated of Tatiana Kurtanova. In 2015, she was awarded for the International Lucas-Cranach-Preis. In 2016, she won the Hasselblad Masters’ Competition with an self-portrait as a pregnant woman.
Belkina is a member of the Union of Russian Photographers.
Work
Belkina's photographic work is strongly influenced by the painting. It focuses entirely on Portraits. In recent years she mainly focused on staged self-portraits. In the series "Paint” combined them picturesque and photographic elements and readjust paintings by famous painters. The series „Hieroglyph” consists of body fragments, have been processed to collage. The series "Empty Spaces” was created 2010/11. Here she staged herself in a chilly style in front of urban skylines. Her artworks was published like in Photo Art, Twill, Kunstbeeld.NL, Eyemazing, dem Monthly Art Magazine, der Fine Art Photo, Zebra, National Geographic and in the Russian Gala, Photo Biennale of Russian Museum
Awards
Solo Exhibitions
-Charity personal exhibition and sale for the fund “Children’s Hearts Foundation”, Moscow, Russia
- A.M. Gorky Literary Memorial Museum, Kazan / Russia
- Not a Man‘s World, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / Netherlands - 25 women I loved, FotoLoft Gallery, Moscow / Russia
- Katerina Belkina, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / Netherlands
- Empty Spaces, exhibition in the framework of the 4th Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Fotoloft Galerie, Moscow / Russia - Empty Spaces, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / Netherlands
- Empty Spaces, Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica / USA
- Revival, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / Netherlands - Being 3 Gallery, Beijing / China
2016 - Paint, Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest / Hungary
Group Exhibitions
2002 - Russian Eye, works by Russian photographers, The Arts Project, TAP. Gallery, London / Canada
2003 - Ann Arbor Galerie, Ann Arbor / USA
2006 - Fotofusion, Shalyapin’s Museum, Moscow and St. Petersburg / Russia
2007 - White fair, Espace ART 22, Brussels / Belgium - Exhibition of Kandinsky Prize Nominees, Contemporary Art Centre Winzavod, Moscow / Russia
2008 - You are an Artist! Art4.ru - contemporary art museum, Moscow / Russia - Young galleriest / Young collectors, Pop/Off/Art Gallery, Moscow / Russia - Russian Fairy tales, RTR Gallery - Russiantearoom, Paris / France - Summer Exhibition, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / The Netherlands
2009 - Die Winterreise, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / The Netherlands - Summer Salon, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / The Netherlands - On the trace of Turgenev, Galerie d‘exposition du Beffroi, Namur / Belgium - Contes Russes, Ancien Musée de Peinture, Grenoble / France
2010 - Life’s Journey… to Heusden, Summer Exhibition, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / The Netherlands - Living Perm Contemporary Art Festival, Perm/ Russia - Russian artists, Abbaye St André, Centre d‘art contemporain Meymac, Meymac / France - Russian Tales, EXPRMNTL Galerie, Toulouse / France - Contes Russes, EXPRMNTL Galerie, Toulouse / France
2011 - 5 Ans de Photographie à l’Espace Art 22, Art 22 Gallery, Brussels / Belgium
2012 - Winter-expo, Absolute Art Gallery, Bruges / Belgium - Autumn Exhibition, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / The Netherlands - Madre Russia, Museo Civico di Asolo, Asolo / Italy - Gop-art, Street art festival, 16th Line Gallery, Rostov-on-Don / Russia - 2nd Photospectrum Int 2012 Crossover 3+1, Gallery Jinsun, Seoul / Korea
2013 - Heusden in Springtime, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / The Netherlands
2014 - Gestalten, Brau.ART, Dessau / Germany - Solemn, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden / The Netherlands
2015 - Group Show, Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest / Hungary - Celeste Prize 2015, Milan / Italy - Seoul New York Photo Festival 2015, Seoul / Korea - New York Photo Festival, The Last Picture Show, New York / USA - Cranach 2.0 – Der Internationale Lucas-Cranach-Preis 2015, Festung Rosenberg, Kronach / Germany - Wiesbadener Fototage 2015, Wiesbaden / Germany - NordArt 2015, Kunst in der Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf / Germany - Russian Contemporary Art Week, The Ballery, Berlin / Germany - Restart, NET/RRJET-Edition VII, Prishtina / Kosovo - Humble me, AEROPLASTICS contemporary, Brussels / Belgium - Cranach und die Moderne, Wittenberg / Germany - Cranach 2.0 – Der Internationale Lucas-Cranach-Preis 2015, Exerzierhalle Wittenberg / Germany
2016 - ARTGESCHOSS 2016, WelfenAkademie, Braunschweig / Germany
Art Fairs
- Budapest Art Fair, presented by FotoLoft Gallery
- Art Moscow, presented by FotoLoft Gallery
- Fotofever Brussels, presented by Absolute Art Gallery - AIR8 Art in Redlight Amsterdam, presented by Galerie Lilja Zakirova - BAMA 2012 Busan Alternative Market of Art, presented by Gallery Jinsun - Art Edition 2012, presented by Gallery Jinsun - Realisme Amsterdam, presented by Galerie Lilja Zakirova
- AIR9 Art in Redlight Amsterdam, presented by Galerie Lilja Zakirova - FLAT TAKE I, Seoul, presented by Gallery Jinsun - Art Paris, presented by Galerie Lilja Zakirova - Realisme Amsterdam, presented by Galerie Lilja Zakirova
- Art The Hague, presented by Galerie Lilja Zakirova - ARTVILNIUS, presented by FotoLoft Gallery - KunstRAI, Amsterdam, presented by Galerie Lilja Zakirova - Photo Independent, presented by Duncan Miller Gallery - Art Paris, presented by Galerie Lilja Zakirova - Realisme Amsterdam, presented by Galerie Lilja Zakirova
- Contemporary Istanbul, presented by C.A.M Gallery - ArtVerona, presented by CreArte Studio - Art The Hague, presented by Galerie Lilja Zakirova - START. Held at Saatchi Gallery London, presented by Faur Zsófi Gallery - Berliner Liste, presented by Karsten Meissner - KunstRAI, Amsterdam, presented by Galerie Lilja Zakirova - Art 15 London, presented by Faur Zsófi Gallery - Kunstbox, Dortmund, by Karsten Meissner - Realisme Amsterdam, presented by Galerie Lilja Zakirova
- Berliner Liste, presented by Karsten Meissner - Kölner Liste, presented by Karsten Meissner