Katya na Khate

Katya na Khata is the pseudonym of artist Katerina Menshikova.

Born in Yekaterinburg, she lives and works in Moscow.

Studying at the Stroganov University in two opposite artistic departments resulted in a single artistic style - laundering, which appears in most of her works.

After completing her basic education, the artist continued to develop in the field of art. But she chose the human body as her canvas. Since 2017, her attention has been absorbed by her work with people, which began the next decade of integrating her artistic vision into her chosen format.
The events that are currently taking place in our country and in the world have encouraged her to return to the classical representation of images in the format of canvases.
The artist returned to revealing the form through the layering of colors in gradation from glare to falling shadow, to the tonal elaboration of the object. Through the monochrome image I try to convey to the viewer exclusively the sensations on which she herself is concentrated.

EDUCATION:

2023 — HSE, Alexandra Mitlyanskaya's course “Video Time”
2007 - 2012 — “Stationary Graphics”, Stroganov Moscow State University of Fine Arts (workshop of L.V. Shepelev)
2004-2007 — “Artistic design of furniture”, Stroganov Moscow State Art and Design University
1999 - 2000 — watercolor school named after S.Andriyaki

EXHIBITIONS:

2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
2024 — Aptekarsky Ogorod. Moscow. Plants of Brix countries

“Over the last four years, the world under our feet has cracked. There was a split into two camps, where half of the people left, changed, adapted to new living conditions. For some people this crack served as a good forced jerk, forced circumstances, when the choice of a place to live became unambiguous.

I stayed in Russia, unwittingly witnessing very similar stories, imbued with longing and loneliness inside the noisy newfound metropolis. I became an observer of our age-old staples, which, it seemed, would not affect us.
Became a participant in them against all odds.

Outside of troubled times, I often romanticized other people's emigration, as broadcasting the beautiful life on social media never showed me the other side. The slogan “bread and spectacle” has become the manifesto of our time. Life in the new microclimate has been stripped of its former utopias, epitomizing only the perishability of existence.

As a result, all the images in the paintings began to reflect a native homesickness, where in the landscapes of another country I still search with my eyes for the attributes of my flawed homeland. I look for places that are associated with simple basic feelings - happiness, security and tranquility.”

Katya na Khate, artist