Katerina Belkina (russian: link=no, Катерина Белкина; born 1974,

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, Russia) is a Russian contemporary pictoralist photographer and painter. She digitally manipulates many of her photographs to appear as paintings, and often uses herself as the model in her work.

Life

Belkina grew up in an artistic family. Her mother was also an artist. From 1989 Belkina studied at the Art School and the Petrow-Vodkin art academy in Samara. From 1994 to 1999 she worked at the publishing house Fedorow in Samara. In 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

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. In 2009/2010 she was at the 1st Photo Biennale of the

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at the

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in St. Petersburg.I Фотобиеннале Русского музея: Россия, которую они отобрали
fontanka.ru, 7. December 2009 (Russian) In 2011, she was in the framework of the Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, an exhibition curated by Tatiana Kurtanova. In 2015, she was awarded the International Lucas-Cranach-Preis. In 2016, she won the Hasselblad Masters’ Competition with a self-portrait as a pregnant woman. Belkina is a member of the Union of Russian Photographers.Vorstellung Katerina Belkina
, Gebrüder-Lumière-Zentrum für Fotografie, accessed on 25 March 2016

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. The series "Paint" combined picturesque and photographic elements and reinterpreted paintings by famous painters. The series "Hieroglyph" consists of body fragments, processed for a collage. The series "Empty Spaces" was created in 2010/11. Here she staged herself in a chilly style in front of urban skylines. Her artworks were published, for example, in ''Photo Art'', ''Twill'', ''Kunstbeeld.NL'', ''Eyemazing'', the ''Monthly Art Magazine'', ''Fine Art Photo'', ''Zebra'', ''National Geographic'' and in the Russian ''

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'', Photo Biennale of the

Awards

* 2007:

, Moscow (nomination for "Project of the Year") * 2012: IPA International Photography Awards, Los Angeles (1st place in the categories "Fine Art, Collage", "Fine Art, Portrait", "People, Self-Portrait" and "Special, Digitally Enhanced") * 2015: International Lucas-Cranach-Preis of the Cranach-Foundation (1st place) * 2016:

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(1st place in the category "Art")

Selected exhibitions

Solo

* 2014: ''Empty Spaces'', Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, US * 2015: ''The Sinner'', Being 3 Gallery, Beijing, China *2015: ''Revival'', Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden, Netherlands * 2016: ''Humanism'', CreArte Studio, Oderzo, Italy * 2016" ''Paint'', Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary * 2017: ''Repast'', Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen, Germany * 2017: ''Katerina Belkina'', Direktorenhaus – Museum for Art Crafts Design, Berlin, Germany * 2018: ''Katerina Belkina'', GalerieKanzlei im Kunstareal, Munich, Germany

Group

* 2009: 1st Photo Biennale of the

, Saint Petersburg, Russia * 2010: ''Russian Tales'', EXPRMNTL Gallery, Toulouse, France * 2012: ''Madre Russia'', Museo Civico, Asolo, Italy * 2015: ''Humble me'', aeroplastics contemporary, Brussels, Belgium * 2015: ''Cranach und die Moderne'', Stiftung Christliche Kunst Wittenberg, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany * 2015: ''Cranach 2.0'', Cranach-Stiftung Wittenberg, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany * 2016: ''Beyond the boundaries'', Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary * 2016: ''PhotograpHER – women taking photos of women'', Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy * 2016: ''error: x'', OSTRALE Centre for Contemporary Art, Dresden, Germany * 2016: ''Until It Turns Slightly Pink...'', C.A.M Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey * 2017: ''CRANACH. Meister – Marke – Moderne'',

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Düsseldorf, Germany * 2017: ''HUMAN/DIGITAL: a symbiotic love affair'',

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Rotterdam, Netherlands * 2017: ''Nature Morte. Contemporary Artists Revive the Still Life'',

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, Poland * 2017: ''Denn durch die Liebe wird der Mensch besser'', Stiftung Christliche Kunst Wittenberg, Germany * 2017: ''so weit – so gut'', Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany

Publications

* ''My Work Is My Personal Theatre.'' Shift Books, Berlin 2020,

References

External links

Official website

Huffington Post, 4. February 2013
Katerina Belkina: ''My work is my personal theater''
Interview in ''Bleek Magazine'', 5 August 2015 {{DEFAULTSORT:Belkina, Katerina 1974 births Russian women photographers Russian women painters Living people 21st-century Russian women artists 21st-century women photographers