Evgenia Makarova

Evgenia Makarova’s work explores the tension between fluidity and control, between the openness of colour and the impulse to interrupt, mark, or contain it.
She builds paintings through layers of colour, gesture, washes, and repeated interventions. Soft atmospheric fields are often disrupted by lines, marks, loops, grids, or structural fragments that appear to hold the image together while also unsettling it. These elements do not resolve the composition; they create a sense of pressure, movement, and instability.
Makarova is interested in the point at which a painting begins to resist order. Colour shifts, bleeds, and accumulates, while drawn or sprayed gestures act as traces of decision, correction, or disturbance.
Rather than constructing a closed visual system, she approaches painting as a place where opposing forces remain active: control and release, clarity and collapse, structure and atmosphere. The final image is not a conclusion, but a suspended state — something still forming, breaking, or changing.

2008 MA Graphic Design
2020 School of Contemporary Art Learning Environment, Russia. Course Art & Sience: Curator research methodology.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Fotogenia Film Poetry & Divergent Narratives Festival Vol.4, Mexico City, Mexico
2022 Motion Pictures International Film Festival, Alberta, Nigeria
2022 Wild Out Video Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 */ ADAF | 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival | VIDEO ART, Greece
2022 Elimination of norms, Newnow + Blanar Art, Moscow, Russia
2022 Bomba Video Club, Bomba Gallery, CCI Fabrica, Moscow, Russia
2022 Poetry Film Live: a new way with poetry, The platform for poetry films, UK
2022 The 3rd One Hour International Short Film Festival (OHISFF), Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2022 Female Gaze, Galerie Am Roten Hof, Vienna, Austria
2021 VII Festival Video nodoCaRACAS 2021, Caracas, Venezuela
2021 Acropolis Remix | Embraces: Utopian Proximities. Acropolis Remix pavilion at The Wrong Biennale nº5
2021 The Bath Open Art Prize 2021, 44AD artspace, Bath, UK
2021 AIR Open 2021, AIR Gallery, London, UK
2021 Summer II, Envision Arts, USA
2021 Rebirth, Florence Contemporary Gallery, Italy
2021 Abstraction, Manifold Global Art Gallery, Fountain Hill, USA
2021 Tactile Sublime, Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, New-York, USA
2021 Speechless, Albe Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2020 The 3rd Abstracts juried art exhibition,...