Ekaterina Ezhkova

From Robin Cracknell, London 2007.
Amongst the tens of thousands of artists displaying their work on the Saatchi online website, Ekaterina Ezhkovas gallery is one of the very few that made me pause and linger and revisit again and again. As a theme, memory and nostalgia can be overplayed and there is certainly no shortage of artists out there mining this territory but Ezhkova has a way of restaging certain family scenarios that are both comforting yet oddly unsettling as well; young children lined up in winter coats, the austere, formidable matriarch behind dark glasses, a young girl staring up at the camera, the photograph lifting her out of time and now revisited again as a painting. A mark of Ezhkovas talent and her ability to connect with her audience is that, despite the fact that I am neither the age nor the nationality of her subject matter, I saw and felt my own childhood in her pictures. The poses of her figures are those of my own parents and grandparents in my family album and it is remarkable to me that she has captured the authenticity of age so well with her palette of subdued colour and economy of line. I love the way she leaves parts of the canvas bare and some figures completely painted while others merely sketche...

1977 born in St. Petersburg
1992-95 school with extended art lessons, No. 190, St. Petersburg
1995-01 Baron Stieglitz's Academy of Art & Industry, St. Petersburg
2001 scholarship at the Bornholm High School, Denmark

ezhkova@web.de
www.ezhkova.de

Curriculum Vitae


2001 Modulor 2001, St.Petersburg. First price
2002 member of the Russian Designer Union, St. Petersburg
2004 Max- Oscar- Arnold Price of the city Neustadt/Coburg, Germany
2005 member of the Federal Artist Union Germany
2006 nominee for the Rostocker Kunstpreis, Germany
2007 grant of Nord ART, Büdelsdorf, Germany
2008 Saatchi Top 10 chosen by Rebecca Wilson
2010 grant of the Land Schleswig - Holstein, Germany,
2010 Annya Sand Prize, best emerging artists from the former Soviet Union, London
2011 nominee for the Gottfried Brockmann Preis in Kiel
2011 Valentine-Rothe-Preis ( Erste Preis) im Frauenmuseum, Bonn

Some Exhibition participation

2001 Manege, Moskau.
2001 Modulor 2001, Manege, St. Petersburg
2002 diplome, Hojskole, Bornholm, Danmark
2003 Modulor 2003, Ethnographical State Museum, St. Petersburg
2004 Sie Oni, St. Spiritus Greifswald, Germany
2005 Sie Oni, Pushkinskaya 10, St. Petersburg
2005 Neue Mitglieder, Schleswig – Holstein Haus, BBK MV, Schwerin
2005 2RN Gallery, Bornholm, Danmark
2005 DGB, Hamburg
2006 polpolja, German – Russian Exchange, St. Petersburg
2006 Nord ART, Büdelsdorf, Germany
2006 Ya vybirayu, Sie Oni, NOMI, St. Pete...