Katya Selezneva (b. 1989, Moscow) works with long-term photography projects, installation, video, and sound.
The key issue of her research is related to the theme of instability and a person's place in the modern media landscape. Her interests also lie within the field of collective and personal memory and its flexible nature. Current projects are based on exploring traces of memory in connection with territories, and the multifaceted role of the archive as evidence, as a myth-maker, and as a source of state imperatives. Incorporating found archival elements and own manipulations, she constructs narratives that investigate themes of recollection, absence, and loss.
Education2018 - 2021 - The Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia
2021 - 'On music and space' curated by Sasha Elina, Vladimir Gorlinsky, Vasilisa Filatova | International University in Moscow (IUM)
2020 - Laboratory within the framework of the festival OTZVUK curated by Andrej Smirnov
Selected exhibitions2023 Encontros da Imagem Festival, Galeria da Estação | Braga
2023 Sviva Station, Sviva Art Space | Tel Aviv
2023 'Restricted Soil', off-site show at the abandoned greenhouse |
2021 'Ways of communication', PENNLAB Gallery | Moscow
2021 'The Seamy Side and What's Inside', Third Place | Saint-Petersburg
2021 'Limiting Visibility', Ekaterina Foundation | Moscow
2021 'Blind spot', Polytechnical Museum | Moscow
2021 'A stone and a tree and a skull and a bird and...', Ilona K | Moscow
2020 Reconstruction of the installation "Rainforest" as part of the festival OTZVUK, ZIL Culture Centre
2019 'Surround_ground' as part of the exhibition 'City Sound Objects', Ground Khodynka | Moscow
2019 Rodchenko Art School Group show, Design Center ARTPLAY | Moscow
2019 'On the edge', Elektrozavod Gallery | Moscow
2016 IV Bienalle of modern art | Saint-Petersburg
2012 'Sorts et désenchantements', Galerie Lemniscate | Toulouse
Awards2024 Photometria International Photography Festival winner
2023
Encontros da Imagem Photobook Award finalist
2023
Urbanautica Institute Annual Awards 2022 winner
Selected publications2023
Zone Magazine2023
Yogurt Magazine2022
Phases Mag2021
Solo Show2021
ArtguideResidencies2023 Sviva | Tel Aviv
2021 UDAR at Borovsk Prison Castle | Borovsk
2021 First Summer School of Sculpture | Veliky Novgorod
Artist talks2021 There Round the Corner in the Deep | Pennlab Gallery project presentation
2021 Items of Unknown Purpose | Polytechnical Museum
Educational & Curatorial work2018 - 2023 'Contemporary photography. Visual research practiсe', course leader
2019 - 2023 'Project photography', curator work and lecturer
2022 - 'Photography lab', workshop leader