Katya Selezneva (b. 1989) works with photography, 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 memory and its flexible nature. She is currently working on projects exploring the multifaceted role of the archive as evidence, as a myth-maker, and as a source of state imperatives. Incorporating found archival elements and her manipulations, she constructs narratives that investigate themes of recollection, absence, and loss.
She graduated from The Rodchenko Art School and made several projects in collaboration with museums, different galleries, and self-organized initiatives in Russia, Ukraine, France, and others.
She left Russia in 2022 and now works worldwide.
Selected exhibitions
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
Fairs
2022 Blazar Contemporary Art Fair | Represented by Pennlab Gallery
2021 Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair | Represented by Ilona K Gallery
2018 Photo Kyiv Fair | Represented by NU ART Gallery | Kyiv
AwardsUrbanautica Institute Annual Awards 2022Publications2022
Phases Mag2021
UDAR Solo ShowEducation2018 - 2021 - The Rodchenko Art School
2021 - 'On music and space' curated by Sasha Elina, Vladimir Gorlinsky, Vasilisa Filatova | International University in Moscow (IUM)
2020 - Artistic Research Laboratory 'More than a Project' curated by Maria Morina, Jana Romanova
2020 - Laboratory within the framework of the festival OTZVUK curated by Andrej Smirnov
2017 - 2018 'Experiences of contemporary photography' curated by Feodora Kaplan
Residencies
2021 UDAR at Borovsk Prison Castle | Borovsk
2021 First Summer School of Sculpture | Veliky Novgorod
Artist talks
2021 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