04.07.2021

Finkelshteyn Katya

Born and raised in St. Petersburg. She graduated from "Contemporary art" at The British higher school of art and design (2019). The main idea of Kate's art practice – to create art-work is to create a field of multidimensional human experience: “I do not make art-objects, I create art-fields' '. The artist works multidisciplinary, mainly in the genre of site-specific installation using a variety of mediums. Kate Finkelstein rethinks mental / conscious/ unconscious phenomena, creating bizarre forms – connecting various objects, ready-mades, plants and tissues with silicone, soap and other materials. Also Kate Finkelstein works with photography, flucsus, performance.

Born and raised in St. Petersburg. She graduated from "Contemporary art" at The British higher school of art and design (2019).

Since 2018 she has been actively exhibiting in Moscow, there are victories in art competitions and open calls. Her works and curatorial projects became participants of projects in 58th La Biennale di Venezia, 8th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art, 1st Microbiennale of Horizontal Initiatives, Festival “ARCHSTOYANIE” 2020, 7th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art.

Founder of on-line platform @art_makes_sense

The main idea of her art practice – to create art-work is to create a field of multidimensional human experience: “I do not make art-objects, I create art-fields' '. The artist works multidisciplinary, mainly in the genre of site-specific installation using a variety of mediums. Kate Finkelstein rethinks mental / conscious/ unconscious phenomena, creating bizarre forms – connecting various objects, ready-mades, plants and tissues with silicone, soap and other materials. Also Kate Finkelstein works with photography, flucsus, performance.

Actual topics for art-practice:

The Modern Global identity / Postcolonial Identity
Order and chaos
Individual and interpersonal mental space / unconsciousness

EDUCATION:

2021 till now High School “Sreda obucheniya”
2016-2019 British High School of Art & Design. Second Higher Degree. Contemporary art.
1994 -1999 State Children’s Art School № 3.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

2021 – Happening “CHRONICS 20-21”, Elektrozavod gallery, Moscow 2021 – “CHRONICS 20-20”, Nepokorennie 17 gallery, Saint-Petersburg
2020 – Dubochky village, pop-up exhibition «Chronis of Zeroing”, Leningrad region 2018 - Mansion “Kochubey's Dacha”, The Installation “Reflection work”, Tsarskoe selo
2017- Galleries «Seasons», The Installation “Essence of things”, Moscow 2017- Voroshilov Park, Land art installation "Memories of space”, Moscow

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2021 – U-contemporary. Winzavod. “Likvidation-2”, Moscow
2021 – 22 Gallery. Abra-shvabra-kadabra. Moscow
2021 – Cube.Moscow.“Souchastniky”. Moscow
2021 – Red biennale, Saint-Petersburg
2021 – HSE Gallery, the exhibition-total installation The Htonology of post-Soviet spaces, Moscow
2021 – The Museum of Science City Korolev, The Horizon of Events, Korolev
2021 – The Zverevskiy Centre of Contemporary ART, the group show “HOME SWEET HOME”, Moscow
2020 – “Electrozavod” gallery, “TempertYRA_2.0”, Moscow
2020 – Foundation “Chetverg”, ART-MEMORY, the Parallel Programm of 7th INTERNATIONAL MOSCOW BIENNALE of YOUNG ART, Moscow Art-park Nikola-Lenivets, art-festival “ARCHSTOYANIE”
2020 – Cube.Moscow, specproject the 7th INTERNATIONAL MOSCOW BIENNALE of YOUNG ART « Support group”
2020– The State Darwin museum, art-laboratory and site-specific exhibition “The Cell”
2019 – «Na Peschanoy» Gallery, «Assemblage Points”, «The Parallel Program» of the 8th INTERNATIONAL MOSCOW BIENNALE of CONTEMPORARY ART, Moscow «Vsekohudojnik” Gallery, Microbiennale of Horizontal Initiatives, Moscow CCA WINZAVOD, «Coexistence: boundary settlement”
2019 – Biennale Sessions in Arsenal, «Traces”, Venice, Italy
2019 – State Gallery on Solyanka, “To break - not to build!”
2018 – Fragment Gallery, “ Ways of communication ”, Moscow
2018 – The first popular science library, “ Space inside ”, Moscow

RESIDENCIES:

Art-residency “Studio Nepocorennie 17”, Saint-Petersburg
SPAR an international virtual art-residency, Saint-Petersburg
Residency “Leziness” in art-park Nikola-Lenivets
Residency “ART-MEMORY”, Foundation “Chetverg”

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