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Elena Nemkova
 
 
About the Artist

There are various ways to follow what’s happening in the world: watching TV, leafing through the papers, clicking through the infinite pages posted on the Web. Wherever she finds herself, Elena Nemkova chooses to connect to a news page Newsru.com, to find out what’s going on in Russia, as well as other countries. Sometimes it’s as though she’s reduced her gaze to the limited geography of an inhabitant cloistered within the confines of her own country, when, in fact, searching for an expansion that is all her own, she went beyond it, crossed the frontier, while remaining snagged on it. The accumulation of news (and therefore of events and subsequently memories, of more or less relevance) has given rise to a series of archived records, through which it is to situate her personal microcosm. It is a collection in constant growth, whose vastness of content and subjects could provoke panic or terror, but also become a fertile terrain for the imagination. Thus, some news headlines might obsess the artist up to the moment in which she feels constrained top transform them into drawings. There where the effects of our times are held in custody: scientific invention, victims and heroes, technological discoveries, myths, basic data. The artists uses all of this material to compose her world – a landscape assembled in a purchased site.

 
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dogs zombie

2005
50 x 65 cm

Consequences of torture

2006
50x65 cm

love molecule

2006
50x65 cm

Russian intelligence

2006
50x65 cm

sex dress

2006
50x65 cm

artificial meat

2005
50x65 cm

Travelling with time machine

2005
50x65 cm

mysterious steel blades

2005
50x65 cm

 
Education and biography
She is graduate in Conceptual Art & Design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, St. Petersburg, Russia (1994) and graduate from the Academia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy (2001). She took part of Master of Contemporary Art "Il premio di Mercedes-Benz", Art Centre La Loggia, Italy (1999) and Pépinières Européennes Art Residency at Konstepidemin, Gothenburg, Sweden (2002); she was granted by MovinUp project, GAI, Italia; the Federal Chancellery, Vienna, Austria (2003) and she was invited as guest artists at Buchsenhausen.lab, Innsbruck, Austria (2003). In 2004 she took part of Advanced Course in Visual Arts with prof. Jimmie Durham at Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy.
Solo shows:
>>2006 3500cm2, cureted by L. Benedetti, Bluroom Rialto Sant Ambrogio, Roma (I)
>>2004 Snowscape, Kavgolovo, Sankt Peterburg (RU)
Serious Attack, Buchsenhausen.lab, Innsbruck (A)
>>2002 Induction, Konstepidemin Galerie, Gothenburg (SV)
>>2001 Well!!!, curated by L. Culpan, Biagiotti Arte Contemporanea (Toast project-room), Firenze (I)
Selected group shows:
>>2005
This Insane World, VVV Festival, Los Angeles (USA)
Tracce di un seminario, curated by R. Pinto and A. Daneri, Care Of, Milano (I)
Urban Flesh and Blood, Barikada cinema, Kaliningrad (RU)
Non ci sei solo tu, Saletta Comunale, Castel’ San Pietro (I)
Oxygen, video festival, Moscow (RU)
>>2004 ASSAB One,curated by R. Pinto, Milano (I)
We surely will be confused, curated by R. Pinto and A. Daneri, ex Ticosa, Como (I)
>>2003 Come In, Vienna International Apartment®, Vienna (A)
>>2002 Touches on terrorism, Museum of New Arts, Detroit (USA)
Note: Nostalgie,curated by G. Scardi, Viafarini, Milano (I)
Space Invaders, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry (UK)
>>2001 Chaos & Communication, Biennial of Young European & Mediterranean Artists, Sarajevo,BIH;
Border Stories, IX biennale internazionale di fotografia, Torino (I)

 
Future shows
Flux Factory, New York, USA
 
Website:  www.brrrrr.blog.com
 
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