According to my theory, all our basic sexual instincts except their straightforward manifestations are the instrument in the hands of an artist. In this series I?m taking the basic instrument ? my body and inspired by great artists use their techniques, my experience and plunge into the intercourse to unite and be one. I?m overwhelmed by desire to not primitively mimic the technique, but plunge inside, learn what was driving the genius, what inspired him. Before starting each work I studied in detail the work of the artist. It?s a kind of a present to my favorite artists. All the materials or textures used in the compilations were painted by me in oil. All works are self-portraits.
Early on Katerina Belkina knew about her exceptional talent to see the world through different eyes. Born in Samara in the southeast of European Russia, she was brought up in an creative atmosphere by her mother, a visual artist. Her education as painter at the Art Academy and from 2000 at the school for Photography of Michael Musorin in Samara gave her the tools to visualize her ideas. Exhibitions of her sublime, mystic self-portraits ensued in Moscow and Paris. In 2007 Katerina Belkina was nominated for the prestigious Kandinsky Prize. Recently she got the Hasselblad Masters Prize.
Awards Awards
2016
Hasselblad Masters 2016, Winner in the section Art, Göteborg/Schweden
2015
Moscow International Foto Awards, 1st place in 2 categories, Moscow/Russia
International Lucas-Cranach-Prize, 1st place, Lutherstadt Wittenberg+Kronach/Germany
2014
Moscow International Foto Awards, 1st place in category Fine Art, Moscow/Russia
2012
IPA International Photography Awards, 1st place in 3 categories, Los Angeles/USA
2010
Px3 Photo Competition, 1st place in portrait’s category, Paris/France
2008
Art Interview, 14th International Online Artist Competition, 1st place, Berlin/Germany
Px3 Photo Competition, 2nd place in subcategory for Not a Man’s World series, Paris/France
Art4.ru Museum Awards, Moscow/Russia
IPA International Photography Awards, 1st place in subcategory, Los Angeles/USA
2007
Nominee of Kandinsky Prize, Russian artist of the Year Moscow/Russia
IPA International Photography Awards, 2nd place in subcategory, Los Angeles/USA
