Katya Isaeva
Born in Karaganda, Kazakhstan
Lives & works in Moscow, Russia
Education
2019-2020 School of curators at Free Workshops MMOMA
2013 -2015 Institute of Contemporary Art, ICA Moscow
2013-2014 Laboratory of Media Poetry
2010-2012 University of the Arts, London College of Communication, Graphic design and Art
2002-2007 Goethe Institut Moskau. German language and German contemporary Literature
1997-2002 Moscow Institute of the Humanities. MA in linguistics and intercultural communication
Solo exhibitions
Museum of Nature by Katya Isaeva/Музей природы, MMOMA Gogolevsky 10, 2020-2021
Syncopation/Off-beat/Синкопа, CCI Fabrika, Moscow, 2017
Collaborations
PER FORMA 0.2, New Space of Theatre of Nations, 40 minutes performance Instagram. Stories,
collaboration with Nikita Chumakov, Moscow, 2018
Project for Royal Park Foundation, design project in collaboration with Matin O'Dea Totem Poles for Hyde Park, London, 2011
Grants
Short-listed for the contest Nova Art 8 New skin: a myth of technological body, 2021
Grant for a course Hunting and collecting (postcolonial discourse) at Internationale Sommerakademie
für Bildende Kunst Salzburg, 2019
Grant for Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Summer School. Earth and writing: a study of the anthropocene, 2019
Selected exhibitions, projects, festivals
2021
Beauty as Subculture/Красота как субкультура, Peresvetov Pereulok Gallery, Moscow
Sacred meadow/Заповедный луг, The State Darwin Museum, Moscow
Behind the scenes/Закулисье, Contemporary Art Centre Fligel, Vladimir
Exhibition of similar art/Выставка одинакового искусства, Peresvetov Pereulok Gallery, Moscow
Museum of Nature by Katya Isaeva/Музей природы, MMOMA Gogolevsky 10, Moscow
2020
BON VOYAGE, Gallerie Charraudeau, video series Free app, Paris
Workshop 20’20. HOMO COMMUNICANS*Человек Общающийся
Special project of VII Moscow Biennale of Young Art,
audio installation Morning choir in the exhibition Human comminication with animals and other organisms
mixed media installation My name is Maria in the exhibition Old Paris is no more
video series Free app in the exhibition GGWP
The Void/Пустота, Gallery Girl Girl Girl, video Free app, online event
New Viewings, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Instagram performance I am sitting in the room
The (–) FE MALE Home, International Performance Art Festival, online
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Escape the room, The Wrong biennale 19/20, gif-animation series,
2019
Art Hobby Center/Арт Хобби Центр, co-curator, co-artist, CCI Fabrika, Moscow
101. mediapoetry festival. Invisible networks, video, Saint Petersburg
Artificial pollination/Искусственное опыление, The Old Fund Greenhouse of N.V. Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden (RAS), co-curator and co-artist, site-specific installation, Moscow
2018
Ideal Age/Идеальный возраст, MMOMA, Special project of the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, instagram-based project #instadancerkatya, Moscow
Neighbourhood/Соседи, gallery Nagornaya, parallel program of MMOMA for the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, photobook/research, web project MMOMA Simferopolsky, Moscow
Art Lobster Tart, Gallery А3, Parallell program of the the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art,
play for 6 fax machines, installation, Moscow
Media Poetry Festival 101, web- project Saint Petersburg
Ork Kota Platform 2018 One-Minute Dance Films, #instadancerkatya video, Hungary
Darkness has fallen VOS - Virtual Open Space, Departments of owl web-based project, Austria
2017
Workshop 20'17, MMOMA, Mix media installation This is where I belong, Moscow
Die Grenze/Border, international exhibition project, supported by Goethe Institut, installation "100 of pialas", Moscow-Saint-Petersburg-Krasnojarsk-Kiew-Minsk-Yekateringurg-Almaty-Dortmund-Tbilisi
The Cancan competitions, Gallery LemoArt, video #instadancer, Berlin
Boderline conditions, installation Karsilamas, Nicosia, Cyprus
2016
Mirrors/Зеркала, Project of the Andrei Tarkovsky International Film Festival, MMOMA - video "Eye test", Moscow
Danube Videoart Festival, video "Eye test", Austria
Media poetry Festival, 101 Memory formatting,installation "Memory of the machines", Saint-Petersburg
.txt, New Wing of Gogol House, media installation "A morning of a man of business", Moscow
Procrastination/Прокрастинация, MMOMA, media installation " The Lawnmower Man", Moscow
Starting point/Точка отсчета, Center for Creative industries FABRIKA, site specific installation "The Sims. Tempus family", Moscow
Free Wifi/Gratis WLAN, Eigen und Art Lab, videos #instadancerkatya, Berlin
2015
Crosscontact, Festival of the new City Culture in public libraries, series of videos, Moscow
War museum/Военный музей, MMOMA, installations "Arms race", "Schemes", "War. Freeze", Moscow
Workshop 2015 Sub Observationem, MMOMA - object "Medical record", Moscow
International Tarkovsky Film Festival "ZERKALO", video "Eye test" in a video art program by MMOMA 6 Moscow Biennale Special programs
The East. Deconstruction/Восток. Деконструкция, 13th pavilion at VDNKH, video installation "Strings and arrows", installation/research/performance "100 of teabowls" (Innovation special award by NСCA), Moscow
Imaginary future art, a project Moscow
Transcription of noise/Транскрипция шума, State Darwin Museum- performative installation "Tactile palyndrome", Moscow
2014
Perception transfer, Centre for contemporary Art, Sokol, video “Private Correspondence”, Moscow
POLITECH, International science festival, VDNKH, site specific light installations, Moscow
white and White/белое и Белое, parallel program of Yourn Art Biennalle video installation “Cry of Yaroslavna”, Moscow
Inventing everyday life, Parallel program of Manifesta 14, video "Personal correspondence", Saint Petersburg
Field Work/Полевые работы, Muzeon Park, 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, site specific installation "Sevastopol stories", Moscow
Freedom is freedom/Свобода есть свобода, gallery Belyaevo, video installtion "Cry of Yaroslavna", Moscow
Space of no exception, gallery SOKOL, installation "It's ok. We are also afraid of the darkness", Moscow
2013
Media Poetry Lab, installations, video, performance, Moscow
Festival “Collected works”, Russian State Library, installation “Cancelled Constellations”, Moscow
2011
Wide open, LCC, mixed media installation, London
2010
Whatever next, LCC, silkscreen prints, London