Katerina Belkina

Katerina Belkina (; born 1974, Samara, Russia) is a Russian contemporary pictoralist photographer and painter. She digitally manipulates many of her photographs to appear as paintings, and often uses herself as the model in her work.

Life Belkina grew up in an artistic family. Her mother was also an artist. From 1989 Belkina studied at the Art School and the Petrow-Vodkin art academy in Samara.

In 2007, Belkina was nominated for the Russian Kandinsky Prize. In 2009/2010 she was at the 1st Photo Biennale of the Russian Museum at the Marble Palace in St. Petersburg. In 2011, she was in the framework of the Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, an exhibition curated by Tatiana Kurtanova. In 2015, she was awarded the International Lucas-Cranach-Preis. In 2016, she won the Hasselblad Masters’ Competition with a self-portrait as a pregnant woman.

Belkina is a member of the Union of Russian Photographers.

Work

Lucas Cranach d. J. – Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery served as a model for The Sinner.

Belkina's photographic work is strongly influenced by the painting. It focuses entirely on portraits. In recent years she mainly focused on staged self-portraits. The series "Paint" combined picturesque and photographic elements and reinterpreted paintings by famous painters. The series "Hieroglyph" consists of body fragments, processed for a collage. The series "Empty Spaces" was created in 2010/11. Here she staged herself in a chilly style in front of urban skylines. Her artworks were published, for example, in Photo Art, Twill, Kunstbeeld.NL, Eyemazing, the Monthly Art Magazine, Fine Art Photo, Zebra, National Geographic and in the Russian Gala, Photo Biennale of the Russian Museum. 2015: International Lucas-Cranach-Preis of the Cranach-Foundation (1st place) 2016: Hasselblad Masters Award (1st place in the category "Art")

Selected exhibitions Solo

2014: Empty Spaces, Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, US 2015: The Sinner, Being 3 Gallery, Beijing, China 2015: Revival, Galerie Lilja Zakirova, Heusden, Netherlands 2016: Humanism, CreArte Studio, Oderzo, Italy 2016" Paint, Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary 2017: Repast, Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen, Germany 2017: Katerina Belkina, Direktorenhaus – Museum for Art Crafts Design, Berlin, Germany 2018: Katerina Belkina, GalerieKanzlei im Kunstareal, Munich, Germany

Group 2009: 1st Photo Biennale of the Russian Museum, Marble Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia 2010: Russian Tales, EXPRMNTL Gallery, Toulouse, France 2012: Madre Russia, Museo Civico, Asolo, Italy 2015: Humble me, aeroplastics contemporary, Brussels, Belgium 2015: Cranach und die Moderne, Stiftung Christliche Kunst Wittenberg, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany 2015: Cranach 2.0, Cranach-Stiftung Wittenberg, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany 2016: Beyond the boundaries, Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary 2016: PhotograpHER – women taking photos of women, Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy 2016: error: x, OSTRALE Centre for Contemporary Art, Dresden, Germany 2016: Until It Turns Slightly Pink..., C.A.M Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey 2017: CRANACH. Meister – Marke – Moderne, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany 2017: HUMAN/DIGITAL: a symbiotic love affair, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands 2017: Nature Morte. Contemporary Artists Revive the Still Life, National Museum, Wrocław, Poland 2017: Denn durch die Liebe wird der Mensch besser, Stiftung Christliche Kunst Wittenberg, Germany 2017: so weit – so gut, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany

Publications My Work Is My Personal Theatre. Shift Books, Berlin 2020,