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until 15.08. | #2728ARTatBerlin | Gallery Z22 presents from 9 May 2020 the exhibition Spaceless with photographs of the artist Katerina Belkina. From 29 June to 15 August 2020 the exhibition can be visited by appointment.
KATERINA BELKINA: LIGHT AND HEAVY
There is an average Russian city where the flight of time has stopped. Samara, my hometown is a racy city, which nevertheless seems faceless. From time to time, something is created there and something is destroyed. It is messy and full of contrasts, being simultaneously heavy and light, rich and poor, beautiful and ugly. It is the quintessence of the most common city in the world. It has everything and nothing. I get amazed and excited by such places. Women form the most brilliant representation of this place. Life in such a city is not comfortable for a woman, and she seeks to escape, but to escape you need a guarantee that you end up in a better place to live. The fact you are a woman grants you no pleasure and no future. You are constantly confronted with races, showing off and stress of competitions.
Katerina Belkina, Tram Stop, 2014, Archival Pigment Print, 100 x 130 cm, 39 3/8 x 51 1/8 in,
Edition of 6 plus 2 artist’s proofs, Series: Light and Heavy
A woman is supposed to keep level with men, she is a consumer, but at the same time, she is a commodity too. Under the pressure of society and especially of her own, she lives in a constant state of market competition for a place next to the man. Visually there are no men in this series. They dissolved in the surrounding atmosphere. Yet we feel their presence and influence at every turn. They show up clearly in the frozen architecture, ringing emptiness and condensed air. Underwear here serves as a symbol of our last protection. Every woman is supposed to exhibit herself as a commodity, but at the same time, she tries to maintain her dignity. This is a boundary between freedom and subjection.
Katerina Belkina, Crossing the Red Army Street, 2014, Archival Pigment Print, 100 x 130 cm, 39 3/8 x 51 1/8 in,
Edition of 6 plus 2 artist’s proofs, Series: Light and Heavy
KATERINA BELKINA: TWO ROOM APARTMENT
A two-room apartment is not just the most common type of a city home; it also represents a coordinate system for a typical urbanite. More than a half of my life I spent in two-room apartments. The world is becoming more open to doing business, communicating, traveling, and establishing connections, and yet our life is becoming more and more secluded. The world seems compressed to the size of a small apartment. Day in and day out our bodies are living through the motion within one or two spaces at the most, and on the route between them. Each day starts with a certain ritualized sequence of actions.
At the same time, our minds are pondering over and sorting out global political conflicts, economic crises, information wars or actual wars. Our minds are traveling around the world and communicating with those of the others no matter how far apart they are. Our minds are processing tons of data about totally strange people and places. We are passively participating in the life of the global community, and our participation has no geography while our physical actions certainly have. This very dissonance splits ourselves more and more evidently into two separate rooms, that of the mind and that of the body.
Katerina Belkina, 11 Milliliter per Minute, 2018, Archival Pigment Print, 150 x 150 cm, 59 1/8 x 59 1/8 in
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist’s proof, Series: Zweiraumwohnung
The photographic background of each piece of the project was shot in this or that corner of the dwelling where my life revolves. The video works as a peeping hole of sorts or as a window across the street through which one can watch or rather spy on my daily not at all special actions, on my fussing around or my slowing down and hear the latest news or a five-minute meditation track. Like an astronaut on a spaceship, I wake up and start my daily routine. I work, I get my chores done, care about my family and then I’m out on my spacewalk into orbit‒ on the internet. I get connected to the rest of the world and rest while absorbing information, watching the lives of the others, thinking about serious social issues. It is so mundane and so strange at the same time. Thirty years ago, the world was a completely different place. This period seems a turning point.
Exhibition start: from Saturday, 9 May 2020, 11:00 a. m. – 6:00 p. m.
Exhibition period: Saturday, 9 May – Saturday, 27 June 2020, to be visited during regular opening hours and by appointment,
Monday, 29 June to Saturday, 15 August 2020 by arrangement only
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Repost from artatberlin - Katerina Belkina | Spaceless | Galerie Z22 | 09.05.-27.06./15.08.2020
#2728ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 galerie_z22 präsentiert ab 9. Mai 2020 die Ausstellung Spaceless mit Fotografien der Künstlerin Katerina Belkina thebelki. Vom 29. Juni bis zum 15. August 2020 ist die Ausstellung nach Vereinbarung zu besuchen. "Es gibt eine durchschnittliche russische Stadt, in der der Lauf der Zeit angehalten hat. Samara, meine Heimatstadt, ist eine schwungvolle Stadt, die dennoch gesichtslos wirkt. Ab und zu wird dort etwas geschaffen und etwas zerstört. Sie ist unordentlich und voller Kontraste, sie ist gleichzeitig schwer und leicht, reich und arm, schön und hässlich. Sie ist die Quintessenz der gewöhnlichsten Stadt der Welt. Sie hat alles und nichts. ..." ... MEHR UNTEN: ----- Katerina Belkina | Spaceless | Galerie Z22 | 09.05.-27.06./15.08.2020
#2728ARTatBerlin | Gallery Z22 galerie_z22 presents from 9 May 2020 the exhibition Spaceless with photographs by the artist Katerina Belkina thebelki. From 29 June to 15 August 2020 the exhibition can be visited by appointment. "There is an average Russian city where the passage of time has stopped. Samara, my hometown, is a vibrant city, yet it seems faceless. Now and then something is created there and something is destroyed. It is untidy and full of contrasts, it is heavy and light, rich and poor, beautiful and ugly at the same time. It is the quintessence of the most ordinary city in the world. It has everything and nothing . . ." ... READ MORE:
https://www.artatberlin.com/ausstellung-katerina-belkina-galerie-z22-contemporary-art-zeitgenoessische-kunst-in-berlin-art-at-berlin/
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Katerina Belkina | Spaceless | Galerie Z22 | 09.05.-27.06./15.08.2020
#2728ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 @galerie_z22 präsentiert ab 9. Mai 2020 die Ausstellung Spaceless mit Fotografien der Künstlerin Katerina Belkina @thebelki. Vom 29. Juni bis zum 15. August 2020 ist die Ausstellung nach Vereinbarung zu besuchen. "Es gibt eine durchschnittliche russische Stadt, in der der Lauf der Zeit angehalten hat. Samara, meine Heimatstadt, ist eine schwungvolle Stadt, die dennoch gesichtslos wirkt. Ab und zu wird dort etwas geschaffen und etwas zerstört. Sie ist unordentlich und voller Kontraste, sie ist gleichzeitig schwer und leicht, reich und arm, schön und hässlich. Sie ist die Quintessenz der gewöhnlichsten Stadt der Welt. Sie hat alles und nichts. ..." ... MEHR UNTEN: ----- Katerina Belkina | Spaceless | Galerie Z22 | 09.05.-27.06./15.08.2020
#2728ARTatBerlin | Gallery Z22 @galerie_z22 presents from 9 May 2020 the exhibition Spaceless with photographs by the artist Katerina Belkina @thebelki. From 29 June to 15 August 2020 the exhibition can be visited by appointment. "There is an average Russian city where the passage of time has stopped. Samara, my hometown, is a vibrant city, yet it seems faceless. Now and then something is created there and something is destroyed. It is untidy and full of contrasts, it is heavy and light, rich and poor, beautiful and ugly at the same time. It is the quintessence of the most ordinary city in the world. It has everything and nothing . . ." ... READ MORE:
https://www.artatberlin.com/ausstellung-katerina-belkina-galerie-z22-contemporary-art-zeitgenoessische-kunst-in-berlin-art-at-berlin/
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