Katya Muromtseva
2023
Artist Statement
Through my practice I am looking for new forms of existence within the hierarchical social and cultural systems of society. I am interested in the narrative where scholarly and artistic imagination overlap. I’m asking myself how to be a political artist without direct aggressive gestures but instead with a social empathy embedded in painterly and sculptural form through constant interaction with individuals and communities. My primary artistic focus is on large-scale paintings, videos and shadow installations that are based on historical contradictions. The interviews with representatives of various social groups are the starting point for most of my works.
Bio
Katya Muromtseva is a visual artist with a background in philosophy and stage design. She holds an MFA from VCU school of the Arts. She has had solo exhibitions at the M HKA Museum, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, XL Gallery, Art Front Gallery, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial among others. In 2020 she was a resident at WHW Academy in Zagreb and was listed in Forbes Russia “30 under 30”. Her exhibitions and individual works were covered by ArtForum, The Economist, The New York Times, The World, TokyoArtBeat among others.