In artistic expression there are themes that have always held an important place, and for me these are borders. The border between sleep and the real, between light and shadow, between the figurative and the abstract. That is what matters most.
In my paintings you see trees, houses, the sea and the sky, sometimes people too. But there is no point counting the tiles on the roofs or the olives in the garden: the detail no longer exists. I have a series of paintings, “Disappearing Objects”: the objects are still there, still present, even recognisable, but for how much longer? Who knows. For me this is a border between the concrete and the abstract, the most vulnerable and the most interesting position.
So painting for me is like a bridge, a bridge you walk across with your impressions, which you have to transform somehow. Perhaps this is also a metaphor for life itself, but that is too sad.
And to speak of concrete things: ten years of study in the atelier of the Russian avant-garde artist Yuri Zlotnikov, then some years with another great Russian artist, Aleksei Kamensky, and in the 1990s the École des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris. Now, after many years of endless travel with my husband between Italy and Russia, sadly with many borders between the two countries, we have chosen Italy and moved to Lanciano, a miraculous town.
Training
- Ten years
- in the Moscow atelier of the avant-garde painter Yuri Zlotnikov
- Several years
- of study with the painter Aleksei Kamensky
- The 1990s
- École des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
- Today
- paints in Lanciano, Abruzzo
Prizes
- 2022
- Nominated for the prize of the Accademia degli Insepolti, Spoltore
- 2011
- First prize, “Il quadrato”, Moscow
Solo exhibitions
- 2020
- “Jerusalem–Lanciano”, Harmonia Gallery, Jerusalem
- 2000
- “Residence Permits”, Na Akademicheskoy Gallery, Moscow
Group exhibitions
- 2024
- “100 Artisti a Palazzo Fani”, Tuscania
- 2023
- “G.L.G. Byron”, Museo Diocesano, Terni
- 2022
- “VII Esposizione Internazionale Arti Visive”, Fiano Romano, Rome
- 2019
- “Le voyage de noces”, I-GALLERY, Paris
- 2018
- “Meurav Yerushalmi”, Harmonia Gallery, Jerusalem
- 2012
- “On the Trail of the Blue Rider”, Museum of Fine Arts, Kaliningrad
- 2012
- “The Colour of Form and the Form of Colour”, Na Kashirke Gallery, Moscow
- 2012
- “Pastel and Sculpture”, House of Artists, Moscow
In museum collections
- 2012
- Museum of Fine Arts, Kaliningrad
- 2011
- Museum of Moscow
Publications
- 2017
- “Aleksei Kamensky. Erasing the Superfluous”, morebo.ru
- 2008
- Chapter “Children, Grandchildren, Great-Grandchildren”, written by Katia, in Varvara Alekseevna Morozova. Na blago prosveshcheniya Moskvy, vol. 2, Moscow, 2008, pp. 585–593
- 2005
- “Abstraction Without Protest”, Kommersant Weekend no. 47: her Self-Portrait in a group show at the Belyaevo gallery, Moscow
- 2005
- Women Artists of Moscow: A Path in Art, chapter “Ekaterina Demyanova”, in her own words
