Katya Ev (ekaterina vasilyeva) she/ they
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Katya Ev’s 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 (°1983, Moscow) lives and works between Paris (2007/2020),
and Brussels (2020/2024). In 2020 she completed the postgraduate residency at HISK, Ghent (Be),
after graduating from Beaux-Arts de Paris (2012) and completing an MA in Political Science at
Lomonossof University, Moscow (2005). Their 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.​ Ev is an artist-member of
PAF (performing arts forum, Fr), Jubilee (Be), Level Five (Be).
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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 - Institut of Political Studies, France (2003-2004)
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Performances / Site-specific Projects
2025 The Rite of Spring - artistic research for a performance/ballet
2024 (medical leave, 9 month)
2023 Lactating Bodies - artistic research for participatory performance and installation - KANAL - Centre Pompidou (Be)
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', Gosset site, Brussels (Be)
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
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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
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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, Liège (Be)
Carrozzone, gallery This Is Arcade, Brussels (Be)​​
2021 Fiat Lux - Pilar, Brussels (Be)
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
Upside Down, DOC, Paris, France
Le Temps Est Détraqué, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France
Tarot Edition​, 019, Gent (Be)
2020 Zonder Kunstenaars Geen Kunst, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
From Scratch To Scratch KASK Curatorial Studies, Ghent, 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
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)
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Residencies
2025 Kunsthal Gent - Gent (Be) - upcoming
2023 KANAL Centre Pompidou - Brussels (Be)
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
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Talks, screenings, interventions
2024 Royal Conservatory of Brussels - a talk "Rethinking the Rite of Spring: from the original work to contemporary rave culture", About Stravinsky#3 event
2023 De Marketen (Be) - participatory workshop, with @radical_hope
2022 MHKA - CKV (Be) / University of Antwerp (Be) - symposium Archiving performance: between artistic poetics and institutional politics
BUDA (Be), 'Assembly of Practice', Emptor collective research
BUDA (Be), screening of the film 'Nothing/ Doing_Axelle Peduzy'
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels - teaching (invited) - on Fair Practices and Fair Pay
2021 KASK Curatorial Studies (Be), - teaching (invited) - on Fair Practices and Fair Pay,
Garage Museum,(Ru) - round table on the exhibition 'Fifth Wave', special project of the 2nd Triennale of Russian Contemporary Art
Ateliers of Garage Museum (Ru) - artist talk, residency program
Netwerk Aalst (Be) - artist talk Deafening Songs. On Voicing, Artistic Freedom and Censorship
2020 Théâtre de Châtelet (Fr) - artist talk, journées d'occupation par La Horde and “Don't Give A Fuck”, curated by Marion Coindeau
2019 FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (Fr) - video screening 'Augenmusic', Public Pool #6, curated by Jean-Christophe Arcos
2018 Galerie Dix9 (Fr) - hommage to Oksana Shachko (Femen)
2016 Moscow University of Humanities (Ru) - artist talk
2015 Performania Festival (De) - film screening 'Axe de Revolution'
Cité Internatonale des Arts (Fr) - performative conference, "The Voyarist"
Festival "Media-Udar", Center Krasny (Ru) - artist talk and video screening with Oksana Shachko
2014 Winzavod Art Center (Ru) - artist talk
Gallery Elektrozavod (Ru) - artist talk, residency program
2012 Lavoir Moderne Parisien (Fr) - film screening 'Terrain I Vague'
2011 La Malterie, Lille, France - artist talk, residency program
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Research / Scholarships / Awards
2024/2025 Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) - Funds for Research in Arts (Frart), Wallonia-Brussels Federation of Belgium
2023 Flemish Community Commission, Brussels (Be) - trajectory grant, visual & performing arts
2023 Flemish Community, Department of Culture, Youth & Media (Be) - project development grant
2022 Jubilee, platform for artistic research, Brussels (Be) - collective artistic research 'Emptor'
2021/2022 Flemish Community, Department of Culture, Youth & Media (Be) - artistic research scholarship
2015 Palais de Tokyo Prize (Fr) - nomination, long-list
2013/2016 Université Paris-1 Sorbonne, Paris (Fr) - Phd research scholarship
2015 Kandinsky Prize (Ru), Young Generation- nomination, long-list
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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
Archive of Garage Museum, Moscow, Russia
private collections (Be, Fr, Ru)
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