Katerina Belkina

Katerina Belkin

Katerina Belkina comes from a Russian artistic household. She was born in Kuibyshev, now Samara, in southeastern Russia. Katerina studied at the local art academy and later worked in a publishing house before enrolling at the Musorin Academy of Photography in 2000. At the same time, she worked as a computer graphics artist for a TV station. All this knowledge flows into her unusual photographs.
At the center of her photographs: Women. She usually slips into the role of the protagonist herself. The series »Paint« associates historical paintings in a modern context, it connects art history and the present in a very special way. The famous protagonists of the paintings seem to have fallen out of the time in which they were captured on canvas; they are relocated. Paintings and photography overlap. What is photographed, what is painted, what has been generated by the computer?
Belkina borrows from paintings of famous painters of past centuries – from Renaissance to Modernism. She interweaves them with contemporary landscape and place markers to tell stories. It‘s no accident that recordings bear titles such as »For Rousseau«, »For Kahlo«, »For Picasso«. Other amazingly staged self-portraits draw on fairy tales and fables, current social themes or future scenarios. Parenthood, gender roles, silence or despair are reflected in the works. In the series »Hyroglyphs«, body parts take on supporting roles. All the photographs exude fascination.
Katerina Belkina‘s photographs have been featured in major international magazines. The list of Belkina‘s awards is long. Her work has been on exhibit in many places such as the USA, Russia, China, and Germany. She has lived and worked in Berlin for ten years.
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