Katya Ev (Ekaterina Vasilyeva, b. Moscow, 1983) lives and works between France and Belgium, where she currently studies at the Ghent’s HISK. Having a background in political science and art, she develops time-based, performative practice, and explores such subjects as institutional critique, issues of power and control, and potential for the individual agency within dominant power structures. She is part of a media collective in charge of the estate of Oksana Shachko (1987-2018), artist and feminist activist, co-founder of Femen in Ukraine.
Recommended by Ivan Isaev
Augenmusik performance, streets of Paris, 2016. Image: Mathilde Geldhof
To Hear With Eyes, re-enactment of the performance Augenmusik, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2018. Image: Arnaud Leclercq; performer: Oksana Shachko (1987 – 2018), co-founder of FEMEN
To Hear With Eyes, re-enactment of the performance Augenmusik, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2018. Image: Arnaud Leclercq
Augenmusik. Figure #7, series of 24 uniques objects, from Augenmusik performance, 2016
Iceberg-18010813. Blue Room, constructed situation. Curated by Ivan Isaev, Moscow, Russia, 2018
Iceberg-18010813. Blue Room, constructed situation, 2018. Visitors, who saw the invitation at the Russian equivalent of Gumtree, entered a basement room alone, where they found a bed, a sleeping pill, and a laptop with access to Dark Web
All visitors of Iceberg-18010813. Blue Room were completely anonymous. The project was realised after the law prohibiting web anonymisers was passed by the Russian Parliament in late 2017, which sparked a debate around censorship, anonymity, and control
(Le Plus Objets Des Objets), infiltrated performance, Zadkine Museum, Paris, 2019. Image: Charlène Flores
(Le Plus Objets Des Objets), infiltrated performance, Zadkine Museum, Paris, 2019. Image: Charlène Flores
Axis of Revolution performance, streets of Moscow, 2014 (in collaboration with Hanna Zubkova)
Untitled N°3, 2019. View of the show Over My (Dead) Body, Guekens and Devil Gallery, Antwerp, Belguim
