Ekaterina Kovaleva

Nata nel 1966

Russia

https://katkart.ru/

data di inserimento in W.A.D. 12/2024

Biografia

Born in Moscow in 1966. I graduated from Moscow
Printing Academy in 1989. I’m the participant of more than 80 collective and personal exhibitions since 1986. I worked in the field of book graphics and graphic and interior design, completed a number of mosaic works in Moscow, New York, Groningen Author of  great number of sculptural objects.

In 2017 I was a participant in the Antarctic biennale project my graphic works The Antarctic Diary  was shown at the 57th Venice Biennale. In 2018 a large retrospective exhibition  “Routes of Memory” was held at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. I specialise in art and research projects dedicated specifically to the connection between history and personality which were  successfully shown in st Petersburg and Moscow museums in 2021-2023

I participated 60th Venice Biennale in parallel program  with “Personal structures” by EEC in Palazzo Bembo During  60th Venice Biennale Waiting zone project was presented as big solo exhibition Limbo in  CREA contemporary art centre in Giudecca, Venice Also part of this project was shown in 2024 in Senegal in the Museum of black civilisations

In Summer of 2024  joined the Contemporary art Festival  in Caucasus with the project “Fishing by light” which became the part of Dagestan Fishing museum  and got the first prize In the Fall of 2024 I prepared special project “The triumph of Speed “ in collaboration with Lamborghini Moscow. In March -June of 2025 my project “Limbo2” will be shown in Rio ( Brazil)  in Centro Cultural Municipal Parque Gloria 

About Waiting zone. Limbo project 

Does  eternity contain waiting?
Is there Waiting in Eternity?

The waiting zone ( or holding area)  is  the area of space in which the parachutist under the canopy must stay until the landing approach.
In my work I interpreted the state of a parachutist hovering between the sky and the ground as a metaphor of our dependency on external circumstances, the time in which we find ourselves tied to the will of fate.

How does the speed of time change in the process of waiting? How does it affect the perception of our path, how does our soul depend on waiting? Do we feel calm or panic, are we forced to pause or do we feel the forced acceleration of time and of events? Does waiting help us to understand time?

Drawing on  parachutes, I used allegorical scenes from the frescoes of Tiepolo and Ricci, fantastic skies inhabited by deities. My idea was to convert the parachute canopy into a portable Heaven

The vault of a parachute turns into the  portable Sky or the ceiling of Hope like painted “skies” of an old Russian church or ceiling paintings in  Venetian palazzo.

It  becomes some model of the cosmos, enclosed within real space to create the effect of “heaven on earth”

Curriculum

exhibitions

● 2022 THE HUNT FOR INSTANT FISH, The Brutal Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow)

● 2021 COSMOSCOW, Gridchinhall Gallery, Manege Central Exhibition Hall (Moscow)
● 2021 TIC-TAC-TOE GAME, Yaroslavl Art Museum (Yaroslavl)
● 2020 PERSONAL SPACE, Kaluga Innovative Cultural Center (Kaluga)
● 2020 COSMOSCOW, “The Ball and the Cross. The choice of the artist.” Gostiny Dvor (Moscow)
● 2020 MELTS, Gridchinhall. Cube Gallery (Moscow)
● 2019 RA&AF, Gridchinhall Gallery, Manege Central Exhibition Hall (Moscow)
● 2019 COSMOSCOW, Gridchinhall Gallery, Gostiny Dvor (Moscow)
● 2018 AFTER THE ICON, Annenkirche (St. Petersburg)
● 2018 MEMORY ROUTES, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
● 2017 GUERNICA, Cervantes Institute (Moscow)
● 2017 ANTARCTIC BIENNALE, Antarctic pavilion at the Venice Biennale (Venice)
● 2017 ANTARCTIC DIARY, Scientific research vessel Akademik Vavilov (Drake Strait, Argentina)
● 2015 INTERVENTION, Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts (Moscow)
● 2014 DEDICATION TO MARQUES, The Ser Institute