Katia Shneider

Katia Shneider (ex. Katia Candor), was born in Moscow in 1986. Katia is a contemporary artist working with installation, sculpture, and video. Her practice focuses on exploring how the individual reconfigures the self and presence in the world amidst ongoing radical social, technological, and cultural transformations.

From 2009 to 2022, she worked in advertising agencies, film production, and industrial enterprises, specializing in media production and strategic communications. In 2022, Katia left Russia, concluding her career in PR to dedicate herself fully to her artistic practice.

Since 2011, she has participated in group exhibitions in Russia, Spain, Georgia, and Montenegro. From 2014, she began creating performances in Moscow museums and parks, primarily working with painting, graphics, and performance.

Since 2023, she has actively developed skills in ceramics, creating installations and video art, and experimenting with materials. She has participated in group and solo exhibitions in cultural centers and galleries in Montenegro and completed her first public art project in the city of Tivat.

She currently lives and works in Montenegro.

Solo shows
2025, “Module of the possible”, Public art installation, Tivat, Porto Montenegro, curating by “Boka gallery”
2024, “The Secret Chamber. Interpretation.”, Cultural Center “Auditorium”, Budva, Montenegro
2014, “Here and now: a work of art”, performance number 3 (Livepainting series) Museum of Russian Realistic Art, Moscow, Russi
2014, “Position”, Documentary Film Center (Moscow Museums), Moscow, Russia
2014, “Here and now: a work of art”, performance number 2 (Livepainting series), charity festival “Humanitarna žurka” in support of flood victims in Serbia, Cultural Center “8 Oz”, Gorky Park, Moscow, Russia
2014, “Here and now: a work of art”, performance number 1 (Livepainting series), Moscow, Russia
2013, “Face to face”, cultural center La Hormigonera, Barcelona, Spain

Group shows
2025, “Phantom objects”, Cultural Center “Auditorium”, Budva, Montenegro
2025, “Transformation”, Alexander Gallery, Rose, Montenegro
2024, “The real me”, Alexander Gallery, Rose , Montenegro
2024, Femfest, ReForum Space, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences in tne Balkans, NGO ‘Women’s Rights Center’ (WRC), Budva, Montenegro 2023, “Metamorphoses”, Artweekend, Pomorandzha Cultural Center, Podgorica, Montenegro
2020, “Poems in prose” theatrical p...