Coming a long way from academical education of painting and drawing in Russia, design schools and photography studies in Germany, Elizaveta has settled in a very individualistic artistic practice, which is based on the special feature of photographic medium to always have a connection to an existing reality. By acting as a painter and a sculptor first, she creates a unique reality, which will be fixed only in her photographic images. So, she investigates how the classical artistic media influence each other and how the borders between them melt away nowadays. The viewer is confronted by the ordinary fabric material which is however abstracted from its haptic characteristics by the means of photography without becoming actually abstract.
The analysis of human perception and the wish for people to think more about our visual culture and its manipulation is the basis for Elizaveta Podgornaia’s work.
Stadt/Raum/Objekt, Forum Kunst & Architektur, Essen
Fact and Fiction, Galerie 52, Essen
PUBLIKATIONEN
2019 NicOtiNe digital, New York
2017 The Great Infinity Pool Vol. 3, collaboration project Ricarda Roggan‘s class (ABK Stuttgart) and Christopher Muller‘s class (Folkwang University of the Arts)
2016 Interchange, collaboration project with Kyung Hee University College of Fine Art, Seoul
2015 Der Greif, 8th issue, Augsburg
2014 Dekamired, Essen
GRANTS
2017 NRW BANK public‘s choice award, Düsseldorf
2016 studio grant in Atelierhaus Linz, Austria
2015, 2016 DAAD grant STIBET III, Essen
2014 Marianne Ingenwerth Foundation project grant, Essen
Ohne Titel (klein_3) von der Serie “No Colors on the Surface” 30 x 40 cm digitaler C-Print, kaschiert auf Alu-Dibond, Aluminium Rahmen Edition 3+1 AP ...