Font: Katerina Belkina & Karsten Meissner

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Birthplace: Samara (Russia)
Birth year: 1974
Lives in: Berlin
Works in: Berlin
Website: http://www.belkina.ru

Schools:
Photo School Michael Musorin, Samara, 2002
Art Academy Petrov-Vodkin, Samara, 1993
Art School 1, Samara, 1989

Representing galleries:
Galerie Lilja Zakirova (Nederland), Absolute Art Gallery (Belgium), Duncan Miller Gallery (USA), FOTOLOFT GALLERY (Moscow)

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Statement

Katerina Belkina was born in Samara, a city in the South-East of the European part of Russia. She grew up in an artistic atmosphere; her mother is a visual artist and, in her place of birth, she got an education in the art of painting at the Art Academy. She continued her education in 2000 at an Academy for Photography also in Samara and exhibitions of her mysterious self-portraits ensued in Moscow and Paris. Katerina Belkina was nominated for the prestigious Kandinsky Prize (comparable to the British Turner prize) in Moscow in 2007. At the moment, Katerina Belkina is living and working in Berlin.

Awards

2014 Moscow International Foto Awards – 1st place in category Fine Art, Moscow
2012 IPA International Photography Awards – 1st place in 3 categories, Los Angeles
2010 Px3 PHOTO COMPETITION, France. – 1st place in portrait’s category, Paris
2008 Art Interview – 14th International Online Artist Competition – 1st place, Berlin
2008 Px3 PHOTO COMPETITION – 2nd place in subcategory for «Not a man’s world» series, Paris
2008 International Photography Awards – 1st place in subcategory, Los Angeles
2007 Nominee of Kandinsky Prize – 2007 (Russian artist of the Year), Moscow
2007 International Photography Awards – 2nd place in subcategory, Los Angeles

Since 2005, exhibited in group and solo shows in: Russia, Netherlands, USA, Germany, Canada, Belgium, Italy, France, Korea, Monaco, Austria, Hungary.

Publications

Het Parool – Kunst & media, Art Actuel, Das Fotoportal, Le Figaro, Photo Art, Twill, Professionele Fotografie, Kunstbeeld.NL, EYEMAZING, Monthly Art Magazine, Expression, Fine Art Photo, il Fotografo, Foto&Video, Digital Photo, Zebra, Hello, National Geographic, Seventeen, Gala, Le Journal des Arts, Le Journal de la Photographie, Tete-a-Tete and other.

Solo Exhibitions

2015 Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden, Netherlands
2014 Empty Spaces, Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
2011 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 2010 Katerina Belkina, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden, Netherlands
2008 Not a Man‘s World, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden, Netherlands 25 women I loved, FotoLoft Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2007 A.M. Gorky Literary Memorial Museum, Kazan, Russia
2004 Charity personal exhibition and sale for the fund “Children’s Hearts Foundation”, Moscow, Russia

Group Exhibitions

2015 Cranach 2.0 in the framework of the Lucas-Cranach-Prize, Exerzierhalle Wittenberg, Germany Russian Art Week, The Ballery Berlin, Germany Cranach 2.0 in the framework of the Lucas-Cranach-Prize, Kronach, Germany
2014 brau.ART, Dessau, Germany Continuité Spring Exhibition, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden, Netherlands
2013 Heusden in Springtime, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden, Netherlands
2012 Autumn Exhibition, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden, Netherlands Madre Russia: Group show of Russian contemporary photography, Asolo, Italy Gop-art. Street art Festival, Rostov on Don, Russia 2. PHOTOSPECTRUM INT 2012, Crossover, 3+1, Seoul, Korea 2011 Young Artists Project
2011: Future Lab, Daegu, Korea 5 Ans de Photographie à l’Espace Art 22, Art 22 Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2010: Life’s Journey… to Heusden, Summer Exhibition, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Netherlands Festival: Living Perm, GOP-ART, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Russia Russian artists, an art superlative, St Andre Abbey, Meymac, France Russian Tales, EXPRMNTL Galerie, Toulouse, France 1. Photobiennale of the Russian Museum, St.-Petersburg
2009: Die Winterreise, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden, Netherlands Summer Salon, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden, Netherlands On the trace of Turgenev, Belffroi Gallery, Namur, Belgium Exhibition of 7 artists of the new generation „Russian fairytales“, Fine Arts Museum, Grenoble, France
2008: You’re an artist, ART4.RU contemporary art museum, Moscow, Russia Young gallerist/Young collectors, Popoffart Galerie, Moscow, Russia Russian Fairy tales, RTR Galerie, Paris, France Summer Exhibition, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden, Netherlands
2007: White Fair, Espace ART22 Galerie, Brussels, Belgium Kandinsky Prize, in the framework of competition, Contemporary Arts Center – Vinzavod, Moscow, Russia
2006: Fotofusion, Shalyapin’s Museum, Moscow und St.-Petersburg
2003: Ann Arbor Galerie, Ann Arbor, USA

Art Fairs

2015: Kunstbox, Dortmund, Germany Realisme 15, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014: Art The Hague, Niederlande ARTVILNIUS Art Fair, Lithuania KunstRAI, Amsterdam, Netherlands Photo Independent, Hollywood, USA Art PARIS. Art Fair, France Realisme 14, Amsterdam, Niederlande
2013: AIR9 Art in Redlight, Amsterdam, Netherlands FLAT TAKE I, Seoul, Korea Art PARIS. Art Fair, France Realisme 13, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012: Fotofever Brussels, European art fair for contemporary photography, Belgium Art in Redlight. SPOT ON, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands Realisme 12, Amsterdam, Netherlands BAMA 2012 Busan Alternative Market of Art, Busan, Korea Art Edition 2012, COEX B HALL, Seoul, Korea Realisme 12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2011: Art Moscow, Russia Budapest Art Fair, Hungary

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Other works

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