Ekaterina Shcherbakova
Born in 1990 in Novorossiysk, Russia, reborn in 2012 in Paris, France
Lives and works in Paris
E-mail: shcherbakova.k@gmail.com
Education
From 2016 – Doctoral studies EA 4010 Visual and Contemporary Art, University Paris 8, France 2014 - 2016 - Master in Mediation of Contemporary Art, University Paris 8, France
2013 - 2014 - Master in Philosophy of Art, University Paris 4 La Sorbonne, France
2011 - 2013 - Master in Cultural Studies, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia 2012 - 2013 - Curatorial Studies program at the École du Magasin, Grenoble, France
2007 - 2011 - Bachelor Degree in Cultural Studies, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Selected projects
May 2024
Enterrer la terre, performance at the Museum Tombs of Kings, Paphos, Cyprus
Re:Source, The Warehouse, Limassol, Cyprus, group exhibition, curated by ARTNOW Agency
April 2024
Avaler, performance, Poush, Paris
I resolved to make a virtue of my desire, Malvasia Space, Venice, Italy, group exhibition with Julie de Claire, Tracey Emin, Cecilia Granara, Dorothy Iannone, Robin Meier, Jonas Mekas, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Malù Dalla Piccola, Recycle Group, Ugo Rondinone, Ekaterina Shcherbakova, Morgane Tschiember.
Cataoutchouc, Jakmousse, Paris, group exhibition, curated by Richard Choukroun, Camille de Bayser, Vincent Labaume, Karine Scherrer
December 2023
- to cover ;
- to impregnate
Rally Art Space / Kimonos Art Center, Paphos, Cyprus, personal exhibition, curated by Yiannis Sakellis
August 2023
Re-writing Us for the Future
AMP Gallery, London, group exhibition, curated by Sara Davanzo and Debra Pollarini
October 2022
Desolé, Madame
Private apartment in Paris. With JPS Foundation and Julia Cistiakova, Florence Jung, Lucile Littot, Jurate Morlet, Cécile Serres, Marie Serruya, Morgane Tschiember, Sergio Verastegui, Recycle Group
October 2021
How to disappear completely and never be found
CCA Typograpy, Krasnodar, Russia, with Tatiana Antoshina, Eva Arakcheeva, Aleksandra Demina, Alina Desyatnichenko, Arkadiy Nasonov, Anastasia Potemkina, Daria Pravda, Aram Saakyan, Svetlana Khollis, Julie Sas, Raphaël Fabre, Delphine Chapuis Schmitz, Florence Jung, David Horvitz, Slavs and Tatars
December 2020
What can be shown cannot be said
LE CAP Saint-Fons (France), with Grace Denis, Thomas Geiger, Anna Holveck, Dawn Nilo
September 2020
Je suis avant, je suis presque, je suis jamais (I am before, I am almost, I am never)
Centre d’art contemporain Parc Saint Léger, avec Grace Denis, Cecilia Granara, Morgane Tschiember, Markus Martinovitch, Ian Wilson; Viriya Chotpanyavisut, Sarah Nefissa Belhadjali & Mélanie Villemot, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Moe Satt, Ene-Liis Semper, Ghita Skali, Ip Wai Lung, Gentle Women
February 2020
21, rue Franki Kramer, 07100, Annonay
Privas Art Space, solo exhibition of Pieter van der Schaaf, co-curated with Julia Cistiakova
November 2019
Dear you,
All the best, Paris, Tanya Nedelskaya
October 2019
Apposite Sustainability
Privas Art Space & LE CAP Saint-Fons witg Benedikte Bjerre, Dominique Koch, Nicolas Momein, Philipp Schwalb. Parallel program of the Lyon Biennale, co-curated with Julia Cistiakova and Nicolas Audureau
October 2019
I see (and other ways of saying I see what you mean)
All the best, Paris, Julie Sas,
May 2019
In the heart of time dwells frost
All the best, Paris, Vanja Smiljanić
April 2019
Down to a sunless sea
Arondit, Paris, with Théodora Barat, Julia Borderie & Éloïse Le Gallo, Thomas Geiger, Philémon Hervet & Victor Prokhorov, Anna Holveck, Géraldine Longueville, Dimitri Mallet, Pieter van der Schaaf
Avril 2019
Evaporarium
All the best, Paris, with Estelle Delesalle, Juliette-Andréa Elie, Florencia Grisanti, Marie-Luce Nadal, Lei Saito
February 2019
Fantastic Illusion: A Remix of Complacency
All the best, Paris, with Baptiste Cézar, Camille Laurelli, Cécile Serres, Laurence Vauthier, Mélanie Villemot & Alto Clark, Simon Zaborski
October 2018
Carta Infinita
Multidisciplinary collective performace in the French Pavilion at the International Architecture Biennale, Venise. With Corentin Berger, Jeremy Bobel, Sabira Bouflah, Alice Cabaret, Clémence Chapus, Gemma Milà Cartanyà, Eva Moyano, Chris Saunders, Simon Sochas, Emma Villarem, Simon Zaborski
September 2018
Sobranie Cocktail
DIENSTGEBAUDE, Zurich (co-curated with Julia Cistiakova); with Benedikte Bjerre, Delphine Chapius Schmitz, Maren Dagny Juell, Julien Prévieux, Morgane Tschiember, Sergio Verastegui
August - September 2018
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Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), Tallinn, with Johannes Büttner, Elisa Giardina Papa, Hannah Heilmann, Norma Jeane, Florence Jung, Helena Keskküla, Kiwa, Dominique Koch, Kaarel Kurismaa, Camille Laurelli, Psaiko, Eva Rank, Tabita Rezaire, Karl Saks, Dora Way
June 2017
How Do You Know Tomorrow Has Started If There's No Night?
Artists in residence exhibition, Villa Belleville, Paris, with Baptiste César, Chloë Breil Dupont, Eloïse Le Gallo, Elvire Caillon, Jimme Cloo, Julia Borderie, Charlotte Gautier, Julie Héneault, Livia Johann, Marion Flament, Paul Cabanes, Pierre Dusaussoy, Vincent Chéry, Goni Shifron, Nicolas Bailleul, Giulia Zonca, Dorota Slazakowska. Series of performances with Julia Borderie & Eloïse Le Gallo, Pierre Dusaussoy, Goni Shifron, Jimme Cloo & Charlotte Gautier & Marion Flament
May 2017
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Russian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, co-curator of Recycle Group project Blocked Content
October 2016 - June 2017
Back To The Future (co-curator with Julia Cistiakova), cycle of 3 solo exhibitions
MJC Le Grand Cordel, Rennes, France:
October - December 2016 - de la lumière, le silence interrompu, Dominique Blais
January - March 2017 - TempleOS, Recycle Group
April - June 2017 - Volume d’oubli, Lei Saito
September 2015 – May 2016
Città Invisibili
(co-curator with Julia Cistiakova), cycle of 4 solo performance projects with Olga Kisseleva, Virginie Yassef, Davide Balula, Caecilia Tripp, Gallery La Box, National School of Arts, Bourges, France
February 2016
Repetend,
Gallery Jed Voras, Paris, solo exhibition and performance of Chi Po-Hao. Co-curated with Michela Alessandrini
September 2015
Stranger Than Paradise
CP5, Paris, France, group exhibition with Steeve Bauras, Marcos Avila Forero, Pieter van der Schaaf, Ekaterina Vasilyeva, Sergio Verastegui
March-June 2015
La Voix Humaine, performance programme, Saint Eustache Church, Paris:
March 2015 - Human Voice. Translations, Ekaterina Vasilyeva & Hanna Zubkova ; H, Valentin Lewandowsky; Sainte Agnès, Agnès Geoffray
April 2015 - Opera-archipel, le chagrin de Marine (...), Julien Creuzet & Julien Marine
May 2015 - Aurora, Joao Vieira Torres
June 2015 - Valise, Emma Dusong
June 2014
Spontaneous Museum, curatorial performance with Azad Asifovich within the installation “Flamme éternelle” by Thomas Hirschhorn, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.
June 2013
“I lie to them.” Based on a true story, group exhibition with Bani Abidi, Critical Art Ensemble, Omer Fast, Agnès Geoffray, Riikka Kuoppala, Mladen Miljanovic, David Ter-Oganyan, Le MAGASIN – Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France, co-curated with the Session 22 of Ecole du Magasin curatorial training program
This is the Place, group exhibition with Thomas Braize, André Guiboux, François Roux, La Conciergerie, Le MAGASIN – Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France. Co-curated with Michela Alessandrini
June 2012
Art for Fake, group exhibition in the frame of the 3rd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (with Tanya Akhmetgalieva, Jan Bourquin, Aslan Gaysumov, Ivan Gorshkov, Alina Gutkina, Ivan Egelskiy, Taeseok Kang, Ivan Novikov, Recycle Group, Kasia Roguszczak, Kolya Saprykin). Co-curated with Svetlana Poroshina
Other Professional Experience
Since 09/2019 - lecturer, Paris 8 University
06/2017 - Visiting Curator, Estonian Art Academy, Tallinn
04/2015 - 08/2015 - Researcher, « History of Exhibitions » project, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 08/2013
Awards / Grants:
INHA Lab (with Alumni Ecole du Magasin), Paris, 2018
Nomination for Young Curators Art Award 2014 (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow)