Katya Ev
(ekaterina vasilyeva)
Katya Ev (ekaterina vasilyeva)
°1983, Moscow, USSR / lives and works in Brussels (Be)
Katya Ev’s time-based, performative practice explores institutional critique, issues of power and control, and the potential for
individual agency within dominant power structures in relation to specific political situations or events. Ev lives and works between
Paris and Brussels, and recently completed the postgraduate residency at HISK, Ghent, after graduating from Beaux-Arts de Paris
and completing an MA in Political Science at Lomonossof University, Moscow. Her work has been exhibited at i.a. National Museum of Contemporary Art – EMST, Athens (2022), Netwerk Aalst (2021), MHKA (Antwerp, 2020), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2018), the 6th Thessaloniki Biennal (2017, parallel programme), Winzavod Art Center (Moscow, 2015, 6th Moscow Biennial special project) among others.
associate artist of Jubilee (Be), member of FAP (Be), NICC (Be), SETCa (Be)
Education
HISK, Ghent, Belgium (2019-2020)
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France (2007- 2012)
Master in Political Science, Moscow State University Lomonosov, Russia (2000-2005)
Sciences Po Paris, France (2003-2004)
Performances / Site-specific Projects
2022 Ne rien faire contre rémunération - participatory performance - New Space - Liège (Be)
2021 To hear with eyes (situational re-performance) - De dag van de toekomst festival - CC de Factorij, Zaventem (Be)
To hear with eyes (situational re-performance) - Storm opkomst festival, De Warande - Turnhout (Be)
Performative Walk, Netwerk Aalst - streets of Aalst, Belgium
Visitors of an Exhibition Space Are Suggested to 'Do Nothing', ed.0, Gosset site, Brussels, Belgium
2020 Last, performance, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
One Might Dare To Say That Hysteria Is A Caricature Of A Work Of Art, performative journey, Venise, Italy
2019 Augenmusik, re-performance, streets of Gent / University of Gent, Gent, Belgium (curated by Bart de Baere)
(Le plus objet des objets), infiltrated performance, Musée Zadkine, Paris, France (curated by Azad Asifovich)
2018 Gravity Boot, performance, KASKO, Basel, Switzerland (curated by Ivan Isaev & platform blind_spot)
To Hear With Eyes, re-performance of Augenmusik, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Iceberg-18010813. Blue Room, expanded performance, unknown basement, Moscow, Russia (commissioned by platform blind_spot)
2016 Augenmusik, expanded performance, streets of Paris, France (commissioned by La Box - ENSA, Bourges / Galerie Mansart, Paris)
2015 Giorgio Agamben Fries an Egg, performative journey, Grado, Italy (commissioned by Moscow Biennale)
To Paul To Matthew To Philip, performance, Olavsvern - ex-NATO military base, Norway (commissioned by Gallery Kurant, Tromso)
Human Voice. Translations, virtual performance, Church Saint-Eustache, Paris, France
2014 Axe De Révolution, expanded performance, streets of Moscow, Russia
Feuilles Mortes, ephemeral sculpture, Moscow State Architectural and Natural Landscape Museum Kolomenskoe, Moscow, Russia
Solo/ Duo Shows
2022 Entretenir vaut mieux, New Space, Liège (Be) - with Marc Buchy - curated by Dorothée Duviver
2018 Etat d'Exception. À Oksana, Galerie Dix9, Paris (Fr) - curated by Fabien Danesi
2017 Human Voice. Replayed, ISSMAG Gallery, Moscow (Ru) - with Hanna Zubkova - curated by Sasha Burenkov
2016 Axe de Révolution, Galerie Nivet - Carzon, Paris (Fr) - with Hanna Zubkova
2014 Piece For Resistance. Other's Dialogue On Revolution, Gallery Elektrozavod, Moscow (Ru) - with Hanna Zubkova
2011 Mindmap, La Malterie, Lille (Fr) - with Elizaveta Konovalova
Group Shows
2022 Statecraft (and Beyond), EMST - The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens - Athens (Gr)
Tout dans le cabinet mental - Le Credac - Ivry (Fr)
Art au Centre #8, window displays, Liège (Be)
Carrozzone, gallery Arcade, Brussels (Be)
2021 Fiat Lux - Pilar, Brussels (Be)
La Musée: Le discours sur le bonheur - Ta(r)dino 6, Novembre Numérique - online
Orangerie, Het Paviljoen - KASK Curatorial Studies, Ghent (Be)
Sonsbeek Quadrinal ' 20--->24, Agora - HISK, Arnhem, NL
Fifth Wave, Garage Museum - Special project of the 2nd Triennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
New Songs for Old Cities, Netwerk Aalst, Belgium
In a Long Blink of an Eye, HISK final show, Gosset site, Brussels, Belgium
Tarot Editions, 019, Ghent, Belgium
Upside Down, DOC, Paris, France
Le Temps Est Détraqué, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France
2020 Zonder Kunstenaars Geen Kunst, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
From Scratch To Scratch (online) KASK Curatorial Studies, Ghent, Belgium
Zommersalon 2020, Kunsthal Gent, Gent, Belgium
Artivirals, Maaltebruggekasteel, Gent, Belgium
2019 Over my (dead) body, Gallery Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, Belgium (curated by Azad Asifovich)
Point Zéro, Galerie Chloé Salgado, Paris, France
Architectures Intérieures, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Val-de-Seine, Paris, France
2018 DO DISTURB#4, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
I Am Not A Robot, ElectroMuseum, Moscow, Russia (curated by Olga Deryugina )
Something Happened, Mairie du XIII, Paris, France (curated by Jean-Christophe Arcos)
Make It Yourself, Centre Culturel Douta Seck, Dakar, Sénégal (curated by Yves Chatap)
2017 The pros and cons of hitch hiking, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Arts - Parallel Program, Thessaloniki, Greece
Tinto. Without Tinto, Flash Expo Project, Brussels, Belgium
Persistent in changing nothing: revolution by political profanes, Galerie Mansart, Paris, France - Galerie Iragui, Moscow, Russia
Correspondances / Vasistas/ Le regard à travers la fenêtre/ Il se passe quelque chose entre nous, Galerie Mansart, Paris, France
2016 The End of the World, Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy (curated by Fabio Cavalucci)
La Nuit Blanche 2016, Le Viaduc des Arts, Paris
Traduire c'est trahir, Galerie Nivet-Carzon, Paris (curated Sasha Pevak & Azad Asifovich)
YIA Art Fair, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris
Psycho, Art Center Fabrica, Moscow / Moscow Young Biennale of Contemporary Art, Special Project (curated by Ilmira Bolotyan)
Là où nous sommes. Regards d’artistes sur l’anthropocène, espace Jussieu, Paris (curated by Collectif Marcel)
2015 Meta-geography, National Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow / 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Special Project (curated by Nicolay Smirnof
Leaving Tomorrow, Art Center Winzavod, Moscow / 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Special Project (curated by Ivan Isaev)
Nothing Will Grow Together Because Nothing Belongs Together, Olavsvern, Tromso, Norway - Gallery Kurant
- 8/+2, Galerie Mansart, Paris
Stranger Than Paradise, Curry Vavart - CP5, Paris (curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova)
Bomb, Center « Krasny », Moscow (curated by Borya Kluchnikov)
2014 Plant-it, Mansart Gallery, Paris (curated by Azad Asifovich)
Comfort Moderne, Clovis XV, Brussels, Belgium
Beauty of disgraceful, Art Center Belyaevo, Moscow, Russia (curated by Andrey Erofeev)
Residencies
2023 KANAL Centre Pompidou - Brussels (Be) - upcoming
2022 PACT Zollverein - Essen (De) - in the framework of the curatorial residency of Ta(r)dino 6
2018 Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland in the framework of the curatorial residency of the platform blind_spot
2015 Gallery Kurant ( former NATO military base Olavsvern), Tromso, Norway
2014 Gallery Elektrozavod, Moscow, Russia
2012 Le Lavoir Moderne Parisien, Paris, France
2011 La Malterie, Lille, France
Talks & Screenings
2023 participatory workshop - De Marketen (Be) - in the framework of the residency Spring Refuge by @radical_hope
2022 Archiving performance: between artistic poetics and institutional politics, symposium, University of Antwerp - CKV, MHKA (Be)
"J'aimerais ne pas", conference by Dorothée Duvivier en écho à la performance Ne rien faire contre rémunération, JAP - New Space, Liege (Be)
2021 Reading Room #16. Doing Nothing, Caveat (Be) - with Vanessa Joan Müller
Master Class on Fair Practices and Fair Pay - Reflections with in the invisible work within the art parctice, KASK Curatorial Studies, Ghent (Be)
Round table - Fifth Wave - Special project of the 2nd Triennale of Russian Contemporary Art, Garage Museum, Moscow (Ru)
Artist talk, Garage Workshops - residency of Garage Museum, Moscow (Ru)
Deafening Songs. On Voicing, Artistic Freedom and Censorship, talk, Netwerk Aalst, Belgium
2020 artist talk, Théâtre de Châtelet, Paris, France - journées d'occupation par La Horde and “Don't Give A Fuck”
2019 Public Pool #6, video screening, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
2018 Hommage to Oksana Shachko, curated conference, Galerie Dix9, Paris, France
2016 Axe de Revolution, film screening, La Colonie, Paris, France
artist talk, University of Humanities, Moscou
2015 Axe de Revolution, film screening, Performania Festival, Berlin, Germany
performative conference, "The Voyarist" project, Cité des Arts, Paris, France (curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova)
artist talk and video screening with Oksana Shachko, Festival "Media-Udar", Center Krasny, Moscow, Russia (curated by Pavlo Mitenko)
2014 artist talk, Winzavod Art Center, Moscow, Russia
workshop with young public, Na Kashyrke Art Center, Moscow, Russia
artist talk, Gallery Elektrozavod, Moscow, Russia
2012 Terrain I Vague, film screening, Lavoir Moderne Parisien, Paris, France
2011 artist talk, La Malterie, Lille, France
Research / Scholarships / Awards
2022 Collective artistic research – Emptor by Jubilee - Brussels (Be)
2021 - 2022 Artistic research scholarship - Flanders Department of Culture, Youth & Media (Be)
2013 - 2016 Phd research scholarship - Université Paris-1 Sorbonne – Paris (Fr)
2015 Kandinsky Prize, Young Generation (nomination) – Moscow (Ru)
Collections
M HKA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
IKOB - Museum of Contemporary Art, Rotenberg, Belgium
Friends of S.M.A.K. - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
Mu.ZEE, Oostende, Belgium
HISK - Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Gent, Belgium
private collections (FR, RU, BE)