PHOTOPIA 2022 #10055

Katerina Belkina Born in 1974 in Russia. She already grew up in an artistic atmosphere. Her mother was an artist herself. In Samara, Katerina Belkina was educated at the Academy of Arts „Petrov-Vodkin“, which she finished with a diploma in 1993. Later, she deepened her education in photography at the photography school of Michael Musorin from 2000 to 2002. Belkina has since shown her mysterious, “painted“ photographs in numerous exhibitions internationally. In her works, she tells stories, often of her own experience, and does so in her very special style. In 2007, she was nominated for the Kandinsky Prize in Moscow (Russian equivalent of the Turner Prize). In 2015, the artist was awarded the International Lucas Cranach Prize. The prestigious Hasselblad Masters Award was presented to her in 2016. Katerina Belkina lives and works in Werder (Havel) near Berlin.