Katarina Edelvak (Ekaterina Edeleva)
is a visual artist and photographer. She was born in 1995 in Ufa. Since 2017 she is based in St. Petersburg. Studied at the Academy of documentary and art photography «Fotografika». In 2023-2024 she is a participant of the contemporary photography lab «NIZINA».
Katarina creates visual series, photo books and zines. In her art practice she experiments with digital and analog photography, transforms found objects and archives, and combines field research with performativity. She works at the boundaries of realism, symbolism and naturalism. She is characterized by the intertwining of social context with subjective experience.
Katarina reflects on the shadow side of human nature and the phenomena it generates. She also addresses the borderline and unconscious, which manifests itself in traumatic experiences.
Katarina is a regular participant of Russian festivals of author's zines and photo books. Zines are in the library of the Museum of Contemporary Art «GARAGE» (Moscow) and in the Athens Zine Library.
She is currently working on several projects, including a photo book «Hidden Illumination» about rationalization of magical thinking.
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Education
2023-2024 Laboratory of Modern Photography «NIZINA»
2022-2023 Academy of Documentary and Art Photography «Fotografika»
Exhibitions
2024 NIZINA, Saint-Petersburg
2024 GRAUND Zin Fest, Moscow
2024 Zherdyola, Stavropol and Rostov-on-Don
2024 Zine exhibition at Sikinos #6, Greece
2023 Samizdal, St. Petersburg
2023 Mobile library «NIZINA» in the center of contemporary culture «Zero Room», Samara
2023 Razvorot, author's photo books and zines, Voronezh
2023 Izdali, author's photo books and zines, Kaliningrad
2023 ZIN-ZIN, author's photo books and zines, Khabarovsk
2023 MIRA MOBILE PRIZE, Portugal
Personal exhibitions
2024 «Noise», library ‘SFERA’, St. Petersburg
Publications
2024 Private Photo Review
2024 F-stop Magazine
Сollection
Athens Zine Bibliotheque
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
Libraries «NIZINA»