Evgenia is a poet and artist. Sound, word, poetry, drawing are the primary elements of her current work. Through installations and performances Evgenia creates experiences, which invite the audience to question the boundaries of perception. Her visual artworks are most often created in a contemplative manner, to invite self-reflection.
Evgenia is a poet and artist. Sound, word, poetry, drawing are the primary elements of her current work. Through installations and performances Evgenia creates experiences, which invite the audience to question the boundaries of perception. Her visual artworks are most often created in a contemplative manner, to invite self-reflection.
Evgenia’s sonic explorations are focused on working with voice as the primary tool. It is always accessible, always available to us - to reclaim voice as means of communicating beyond language, through more abstracted sound. At the same time Evgenia works with languages, drawing inspiration from possible hidden relationships and common roots between distant families. She often deconstructs language exploring underlying meaning through sonic means.
A specific element of Evgenia’s work is audience participation. In some of her performances she challenges perception of humans as separate from each other, inviting her audience to become participants - into an immersive and often ritualistic space. She removes the abyss between the figure of a professional musician and audience member, blurring and shifting these roles. When the stage is absent, experience requires presence and participation of everyone.
She works as solo artist and runs a project Analema Group as Artistic Director.
Evgenia is an artist and Artistic Director of Analema Group. She was born in 1979 in Poltava (Ukraine, USSR). Exhibited in Russia and internationally since 1999. Worked with Stella Art Foundation from 2004-2007. Moved to London in 2007 to complete Master's Degree in 2008 at Central Saint Martins. She founded Analema Group for the purpose of art collaborations in 2010. She is currently based in London.
Selected solo shows:
2016 Do we have a common language, performance and book launch, King’s College Chapel, London
Sound of Forms, Republic Gallery, London
Being Silence, Crypt Gallery, London
2008 - 108. Contemporary Russian Art Festival, Museum of Asian Art, Corfu
2006 - 108. Stella Art Gallery, Moscow
2003 - Returning. Art Play Gallery, Moscow
Selected Group shows:
2016 The Wave, performance and installation, L’abri Fondation, Geneva
The Wheel, performance and installation, Roundhouse, London
I AM, poetry and sound performance, Baltic Art Form, London
Atta-Anatta, Performance, Crypt Gallery, London
KIMA, performance, Incloodu Deaf Arts Festival, London
2015 Experimental Densities, Art of Conversation, Cornelius Foundation, London
Kima, Performance as Analema Group, Union Chapel, London
Kima, Kinetica Art Fair as Analema Group, Truman’s Brewery, London
2014 - Echo of Now, Manezh, Moscow
2013 - Kima, Interactive performance, as Analema Group, Kinetica Art Fair, London
2012 - Khaos, interactive performance, as Analema Group, Kinetica Art Fair, London
2011 - Root A, as Analema Group, The Return, The House of the Nobleman, Frieze Art Fair, London
In the Centre of Cyclone, performance, Pravda, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
2010 - A-Field, Analema Group, Market Estate Project, London
The Echo of Now, East calls West, Pingyao International Photography Festival, China
2009 - The Echo of Now, Private Practice II, Empire Gallery, London
Subjective Visions. 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art
2008 - The Elements of Light, installation, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Art Space 8, Istanbul Contemporary
Manta Ray, installation, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London
2007 - Okean X Forms, (laser and sound installation), Okean X Creative Studio, Art Digital, Centre for contemporary art, M’ARS, Moscow
2006 - 108. Stella Art Gallery, Moscow
Joint Adventure, Russian culture center, Vienna, Austria
2005 - We. Moscow International Forum of Art Initiatives, State Exhibitions Hall “New Manege”, Moscow
2003 - Returning. Art Play Gallery, Moscow
Awards:
2016 - Arts Council Grant Award for KIMA project as Analema Group with subsequent performances including Roundhouse and Baltic Art Form
2014 - Arts Council Grant Award for KIMA project as Analema Group with subsequent performances including Union Chapel Organ Project collaboration
2006 - Innovation Prize, Russia with a residency in Oros Harasson, Greece and subsequent exhibitions
Selected publications:
Do we have a common language? Artist's Book of visual and sound poetry, 2016
Exhibition catalogue "108", 2006, Stella Art Gallery
Exhibition catalogue "Elements of Light", 2008, Stella Art Foundation
77, Catalogue of Collection of Stella Art Foundation, 2008
