Katya

Bochavar

Visual arts

An artist, designer of exhibition spaces, curator of art exhibitions, and performance author, scenographer. Director of the 'GROUND Solyanka' gallery, curator of the contemporary urban culture festival 'Vyksa-festival' in 2023. Co-author of the performance 'White Rainbow Over the Table. Musical of Expired Products' at the Baibakov art projects exhibition, designer of the Russian pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, architect of the Lexus Hybrid Art exhibition at the 'Manege', curator and architect of the 'Here and Now!' exhibition at the 'Manege'. Author of the course 'School of Holistic Combinatorics' at the British Higher School of Design. As an artist, Ekaterina specializes in site-specific art — a direction in contemporary art where the artist creates a project for a specific place or event. 'GROUND Solyanka' is a living experiment focused on cross-disciplinary projects related to contemporary visual art in symbiosis with experimental theater, music, and literature, as well as on projects at the intersection of art and technology. She is a two-time winner of the Sergey Kuryokhin Award: for creating the visual program at the 'Gogolfest' festival in the 'Curator of the Year' category and for the 'Vladey Caucasus!' festival in Vladikavkaz. Through her projects and her favorite work, Ekaterina discovers new talents in art, creates diverse creative communities, resulting in new meanings and new horizons. 'Contemporary art is not an object, it is an idea, a way of thinking'.