Home sweet home
The collection "Home Sweet Home" contains works by contemporary artists, inspired by the home space, which has significantly increased its influence in our lives recently... it seemed to have grown into the foreground, became an abnormal figure, a significant actor in our daily flow. It is interesting to observe how this space expands, distorts, where it leads through its interpretations by modern artists who appropriate elements of home life in their practice.
This curatorial selection for a-s-t-r-a gallery was created based on the show "Home Sweet Home", implemented in February 2021 at the Zverev Center for Contemporary Art.
Author of the concept: Katya Finkelstein
Curators: Katya Finkelstein, Evgenia Sterlyagova
Kate Finkelstein is an independent curator and artist, co-founder of the workshops and art space “Processes & Processes", member of the curatorial expert council of the Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, teacher of the school of Contemporary Art “Concept" and the Higher School "Sreda Obuchenia“, ex-co-organizer of the art community ”YRA!“, organizer of the online platform for independent curatorial projects @art_makes_sense and the channel “Curatorial Kitchen".
She graduated from the British Higher School of Art and Design "Contemporary Art". Kate is currently studying in the Workshop of Art Criticism by Boris Klyushnikov and the Sculpture Workshop by Alexander Povzner at the higher school "Sreda Obuchenia“.
Curator and organizer of exhibition and auction projects at various venues in Moscow. She works mostly with emerging artists creating gallery and site-specific projects in the context of current socio-cultural discourse. In the construction of exhibition spaces, it relies, among other things, on aspects of contemporary art facilitating social processes.
Born and raised in St. Petersburg. Lives and works in Moscow.
Evgenia Sterlyagova is an artist, curator, photographer (member of the Union of Photo Artists of Russia), teacher of photography and disciplines of new media, accomplice of the curatorial community Art makes sense, founded by Katya Fmnkelstein; and also - co-founder of the nomadic gallery "Paul's Labyrinth," editor-in-chief of fashion punk zine GG MAGAZINE. Columnist of an independent public about contemporary art ARTUzel. He teaches photography and curatorial affairs at IGUMO and the International College of Arts and Communications, and also lectures on modern media in various fields.