Elizaveta Podgornaia

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

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.

https://podgornaia.com

series „Ochre, Canvas, Focus, Loop“, 2017, acht digitale C-Prints, kaschiert auf Alu-Dibond und gerahmt (Metallrahmen)

1, Ohne Titel 122x162 cm Edition 3+2 AP, 2017

2, Ausstellungsansicht Fotogalerie Wien, 2019

3, Ohne Titel 32x42 cm Edition 5+2 AP, 2017

AUSBILDUNG

2013 – 2017 Bachelor of Arts (Photography) mentored by Prof. Gisela Bullacher and Prof. Christopher Muller, Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen

2016 – 2017 internship by Florian Ebner, Photography Collection at Museum Folkwang, Essen

2011 – 2012 B.A. Kommunikationsdesign at Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen

2008 – 2011 Design Diploma at Art Industry Academy, St. Petersburg

AUSSTELLUNGEN

2019

Absent, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna

2018

Etwas ganz Spontanes wie es aussieht, Raum Z13, Essen
Weil Ihre Gesundheit unser Anliegen ist (duo with Nils Limberg), Post Tyler, Köln

2017

exhibition for the NRW.BANK Award, Düsseldorf
Few Meters of Finitude, Akademie der Bildenen Künste, Stuttgart

2016

Don‘t Wear Your Grandma‘s Bra, Please, Baustelle Schaustelle, Essen
eine Robbe, die sich die Schwanzflosse putzt, (duo with Susanne
Mierzwiak), Galerie 52, Essen
Seeing Things, (part of OFF-FOTO Festival), C-HUB, Mannheim
Fiberish, Miami Beach Urban Studios, Miami
When I Close My Eyes, I See the Bloody Rainbow, KUMA Museum, Seoul

2015

folkwang*inside in cooperation with C.A.R., SANAA Building, Essen
БЛИКBLICK (group work), Kunstverein Essen-Werden, Essen

2014

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