Elena Kovylina
b. 1971 Moscow, USSR
Solo Exhibitions
2015 125 grammi, VIDEOINSIGHT FOUNDATION (Turin, Italy)
Eternal time, Galery Ekaterina Iraqui (Moscow, Russia)
2014 Rituals, Moscow fine art gallery (Moscow, Russia)
Equality (Egalite), MANIFESTA 10, The European Nomadic Biennial
2013 Redpommegranates, Moscow fine art gallery (Moscow, Russia)
2009 Le Malentendu, Analix Forever (Geneva, Switzerland)
2008 The Appearance of ###### to the People Exhibition MANSON, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Dyings swans, Rabouan Moussion Gallery (Paris, France)
Rabouan Moussion Gallery, ArtParis (Paris, France)
Fond Contemporary city (Moscow, Russia)
2008 Destination unknown, Central House of Artist (Moscow, Russia)
Equality, Contemporary City Foundation (Moscow, Russia)
2007 Pari Nadimi Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
2006 Love after the cold war, American Cultural Center (Moscow, Russia)
2005 Boxing, XL-Projects (Moscow, Russia)
Live concert, XL-Projects (Moscow, Russia)
2004 Theater of the homeless youth, DOC Theater (Moscow, Russia)
Chapel, Kuenstlerhaus Boswil (Boswil, Switzerland)
2003 Red Shelter, Gallery K&S (Berlin, Germany)
Attacking Poetry, Paula Boettcher Gallery (Berlin, Germany)
Theater of the homeless youth, Berliner Festspiele (Berlin, Germany)
2002 Red Shelter, Museum of the Revolution History (St. Petersburg, Russia)
2001 Oppositions, Escape Gallery (Moscow, Russia)
Heroines from the East, Guelman Gallery (Moscow, Russia)
1999 Visitng a fairy tale, Cyberfemin club, Gallery-21 (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Solo show, Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Cosmoscow, Gallery 21, (Moscow, Russia)
VS. Cravan, Visconti Palestra (Milan, Italy)
It’s OK to change your mind!, Istituzione Bologna Musei (Bologna, Italy)
2017 Fucking Beautiful, Magda Danysz Gallery (Paris, France)
Moving Image: Performative Video Exhibition, UMMA University of Michigan Museum of Art
(Ann Arbor, USA)
Dans with me video, MEP (Paris, France)
Transart (Bolzano, Italy)
2016 Performance Égalité, Museumplein (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
2015 We only existe when we create, Analix Forever Gallery, CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL
(Istanbul, Turkey)
BODY MEMORY, Analix Forever gallery, ARTISSIMA (Turin, Italy)
Russian Realism XX-XXI century, Museum of Contemporary Russian History (Moscow, Russia)
Kiaf 2015 Art Seoul, Arca Gallery (Vladivostok, Russia)
Vienna for art's Sake, Belvedere (Vienna, Austria)
PC / Political correctness? Kunsthalle Palazzo (Liestal, Switzerland)
Memory & Oblivion, Station (Beirut, Lebanon)
Biennale d'art contemporain Hybride3 2015 (Douai, France)
Imago Mundi. Luciano Benetton Collection. Mappa dell’arte nuova, Fondazione Giorgio Cini
(Venice, Italy)
Taking Up Space, Articulate project space (Leichatdt, Austria)
2014 The World Must Still Be Young, Stiftelsen 3/14 (Bergen, Norway)
Russian Performance: A Cartography Of Its History, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia)
Un Instant Forever / A Moment Forever, Analix Forever (Geneva, Switzerland)
Art Bolonia, Ekaterina Itaqui Gallery
Vienna International Art Fair 2014 (Vienna, Austria)
Contemporary Istanbul, Ekaterina Iraqui Gallery
Manifesta 10, The State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Reflex of memory, Anna Nova Gallery (Saint Peterburg, Russia)
La mirada compromesa, Fundación Francisco Godia (Barcelona, Spain)
do it Moscow, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture - GCCC (Moscow, Russia)
Il Piedistallo vuoto. Fantasmi dall’Est Europa, Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna (Bologna, Italy)
The Empty Pedestal, Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna (Bologna, Italy)
Against current, Gallery Mars (Moscow, Russia)
2013 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Bolshe Sveta / More Light, Manege Central Exhibition Hall (Moscow, Russia)
The Voice And The Chorus - Russian Video Art, De Hallen (Haarlem, The Netherlands)
International Women’s Day. Feminism: From Avant-Garde to the Present, Central Exhibition Hall Manege (Moscow, Russia)
Dreams For Those Who Are Awake, Moscow museum of modern art - MMOMA (Moscow, Russia)
De madonna a Madonna. (De)construcciones de lo femenino en la sociedad contemporánea, DA2 Domus Artium 2002, (Salamanca, Spain)
2012 L’HISTOIRE EST A’ MOI!, Le Printemps de Septembre (Toulouse, France)
re.act.feminism #2 - A Performing Archive, Fundación Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona, Spain)
Montaje de Atracciones - Tirar del Hilo - Colección Artium / Sala Norte - ARTIUM, Basque Museum Center of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Le Printemps de Septembre — à Toulouse 2012, les Abattoirs de Toulouse (Toulouse, France)
re.act.feminism #2 - A Performing Archive, Museet for Samtidskunst (Roskilde, Denmark)
Beautiful Penis, Galerie Nuke (Paris, France)
re.act.feminism 2 - a performing archive, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic (Zagre, Croatia)
Heimat Heisst РОДИНА, Galerie Wedding (Berlin, Germany)
SCOOP ART BASEL, Analix Forever Gallery (Barcelona, Spain)
Elena Kovylina video works, Cinefantom Club (Moscow, Russia)
Re.act.feminism#2, Galerija Miroslav Kraljev (Zagreb, Croatia)
ART PARIS, Analix Forever Gallery (Paris, France)
Russia: a swaddled soul, Rizzordy Art Foundation (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Elena Kovylina video works, NCCA (Moscow, Russia)
Re.act.feminism#2, Instytut Sztuki Wyspa (Gdansk, Poland)
Cariatida, NCCA (Nizny Novgorod, Russia)
New Woman, Muzeion (Moscow, Russia)
Live Concert, Pechersky Gallery (Moscow, Russia)
2011 ¡Patria o Libertad! On Patriotism, Immigration and Populism, Museum of Contemporary Art, (Toronto, Ontario)
2010 Interesting thing, NCCA (Moscow, Russia)
ARTE Video Night (Paris, France)
Transitland in Trieste, Studio Tommaseo - Istituto per la documentazione e diffusione delle Arti (Trieste, Italy)
Patria o Libertad - The Rhetorics of Patriotism, Art Galery Miami Dade College (Miami, USA)
Modernikon, Fondazione Sandretto (Turin, Italy)
ŽEN d’АРТ - The Gender History of Art in the Post-Soviet Space: 1989–2009, Moscow Museum of Modern Art - MMOMA (Moscow, Russia)
100 years of performance, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture (Moscow, Russia)
No More Bad Girls, Stiftelsen 3,14 (Bergen, Norway)
Territories of the In/Human, Kunstverein (Stuttgart, Germany)
Body. gestures, postures and beyond, National Gallery (Vilnius, Lithuania)
La nuit des 1001 videos/Night of 1001 videos, Analix Forever (Geneva, Switzerland)
No more bad girls?, WUK - Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna, Austria)
Analix Forever, Art Brussels fair (Brussels, Belgium)
Man Son 1969, Vom Schrecken der Situation - Villa Merkel & Bahnwärterhaus (Esslingen, Germany)
2009 Transitland, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS (Madrid, Spain)
Dispari&Dispari project (Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange at Ludwig Museum for Contemporary Art (Budapest, Hungary)
Transmediale festival for digital art and culture (Berlin, Germany)
Gender Check, Museum of Modern Art - MUMOK (Vienna, Austria)
Kandinsky Prize Exhibition (Moscow, Russia)
Analix Forever, Show Off 2009 (Paris, France)
Tirana Art Biennial (Tirana, Albania)
Mobile Archive, Art In General (New York City, USA)
Ultra-New Materiality, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 3d Moscow Biennale (Moscow, Russia)
Carriage, Vulnerability exhibition, Museum of Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia)
InterSpace Association (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Exhibition Fiesta, Analix Forever (Geneva, Switzerland)
Carriage, Lulea Art Biennale, LAB09 (Lulea, Sweden)
video program Priere de voir, MiArt (Milan, Italy)
City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Art (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
History of Russian Video Art, Volume 2 - MMCA (Moscow, Russia)
9th Sharjah Biennial - Sharjah International Art Biennial (Sharjah, UAE)
5 Video, Lille 3000 (Lille, France)
21 RUSSIA - Group exhibition of the contemporary Russian artists, Pinchuk Art Centre (Kiev, Ukraine)
MAN SON 1969, Vom Schrecken der Situation, Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg, Germany)
2008 re.act.feminism - performance art of the 1960's & 70's today, Akademie der Kuenste (Berlin, Germany)
Dying swans, Helsinki Academy of Art Gallery, Festival Lens Politica (Helsinki, Finland)
Show off!, Analix Forever (Paris, France)
Analix Forever Gallery (Geneva, Switzerland)
Rabouan Moussion Gallery, ArtParis fair, Grand Palais (Paris, France)
2007 Kovylina Action Gallery, Art Arthina fair (Athens, Greece)
Kommunalka, Moscow Art fair (Moscow, Russia)
Solo24Ore, MUSEION, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Bolzano/Bozen, Italy)
Egalite, Espace Electra (Paris, France)
Ueberleben, Program Gallery (Berlin, Germany)
Sots Art, La Maison Rouge (Paris, France)
West-East, Orel Art Gallery (Paris, France)
SWAY Gallery (Geneva, Switzerland)
Art Athens, fair, (Athens, Greece)
Love after the cold war, LOOP video art fair, Play Gallery (Barcelona, Spain)
In the Presence of the Body, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY, USA)
Love after the cold war, Exhibition Black Quadrate, ZDH, 2nd Moscow Biennale (Moscow, Russia)
Sots Art - Political Art in Russia and China, National Tretjakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia)
Petroliana, Contemporary Art Museum, 2nd Moscow Biennale (Moscow, Russia)
By Interaction, Lenin Museum, 2nd Moscow Biennale (Moscow, Russia)
Partners in Crime, Gallery MC (New York City, USA)
Pari Nadimi Gallery, ARCO Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2006 Knoll Gallery (Budapest, Hungary)
Bunker No Bunker, Ramis Barquet Gallery (Monterrey, Mexico)
Pari Nadimi Gallery, ARTISSIMA (Turin, Italy)
Festival RIAP 2006 (Quebec City, Canada)
Biennale of Sydney 2006 (Sydney, Australia)
Wild Gift, performance festival, Limehouse Town Hall (London, England)
Russia Redux #2, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, City University of New York (New York City, USA)
Love after the cold war, MAK Schindler House for Art and Architecture (Los Angeles, USA)
Something about Power, Russian Video Art Piano Nobile (Geneva, Switzerland)
"The Medal," "Transit Art Spase" (Stavanger, Norway)
2005 "Boxing," "We are the artist", K-3 Project Space (Zurich, Switzerland)
Festival Europalia Russia, Kunstencentrum Vooruit (Gent, Belgium)
Waltz at Miami, Gallery Schroeder Romeo/NY, NADA Art Fair, Miami Beach (Miami, USA)
Russia Redux, Gallery Schroeder Romero (New York City, USA)
2nd Prague Biennale (Prague, Czech Republic)
Red Shelter, The Politics of Care, Whitney Museum (New York City, USA)
Play boy show, Art Moscow 2005 (Moscow, Russia)
Karin Sachs Gallery, Art Moscow fair (Moscow, Russia)
Karin Sachs Gallery, Art Vienna fair (Vienna, Austria)
Legal Prostitution in Russia, Museum of Modern Art, 1st Moscow Biennale (Moscow, Russia)
The Medal, No comment, 1st Moscow Biennale (Moscow, Russia)
2004 Waltz, The seven sins, Museum of Modern Art (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Palace, Palazzo Pfafava (Venice, Italy)
Waltz, Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg, Germany)
Bahnhof Belorusskij, IFA Gallery (Stuttgart, Germany)
Moral inspection, International Performing Art Festival (Salzburg, Austria)
Hallo, NY! Apex Art Gallery (New York City, USA)
Tea ceremony, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (Baden-Baden, Germany)
2003 Kidnapping of an assistant, Art without Crime, Hebbel Theater (Berlin, Germany)
Belorusskij Train Station, IFA Gallery (Berlin, Germany)
The Medal, Ministry of the Foreign Affairs (Berlin, Germany)
Domophone, 1st Prague Biennale (Prague, Czech Republic)
Do it yourself, Contemporary Art Museum (Belgrade, Serbia)
2002 Waltz, Foundation Cartier (Paris, France)
Committee Red Shelter, Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany)
Pincode, Ujazdowsky Castle (Warsaw, Poland)
Where their parents are?, Paula Boettcher Gallery, Art Forum Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
Neighbors, Berliner Festwochen (Berlin, Germany)
Do it yourself, K-4 Gallery (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Shooting gallery, “Deconstruction”, Cetinie Biennale (Montenegro)
Shooting gallery, "Davaj! Russian Art now", MAK (Vienna, Austria)
Gosstop, "Female sight", National Tretjakow Gallery (Moscow, Russia)
Davaj! Russian Art Now, Postfuhramt (Berlin, Germany)
Check Point Charly (Berlin, Germany)
2001 RA Gallery (Kiev, Ukraine)
Waltz, Volker und Freude Galerie (Berlin, Germany)
Love. Opposition. Cool., Guardini Foundation (Berlin, Germany)
Elections of the President of the Universe, Performance Festival, Schloss Broellin (Broellin, Germany)
Extreme right–left, UdK Berlin, Class of the prof. Rebecca Horn
The Babylon Tower, “Line”, Samara Art Museum (Samara, Russia)
2000 A moment of glory, Et Cetera Theater (Moscow, Russia)
Rescue my soul, "Sea", International Forum of the Modern Art (Sotchi, Russia)
Kidnapping of Europe, "Paradise Zero", Central Cathedral (Uppsala, Sweden)
Heroines from the East, Museum de la Ville (Paris, France)
News, International Performance Festival, Bolshoi Manege (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Information, International festival of modern arts, Chagall Museum (Vitebsk, Belarus)
Do it yourself!, Zverev Center of the Comtemporary Art (Moscow, Russia)
Absence of a Hero, A-3 Gallery (Moscow, Russia)
1999 The Babylon Tower, Theater Campanor (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
The Babylon Tower, Diaspora Art Festival (Ovjedo, Spain)
"Medusas" , Feminist summer school (Foros, Crimea, Ukraine)
To the future, Kunsthalle Steyr (Steyr, Austria)
Green Apple (Yerevan, Armenia)
Love is a male discourse, Festival of the Modern Art (Minsk, Belarus)
"To the future," "The last generation", Spider and Mouse Gallery (Moscow, Russia)
1998 On the other side… Emergency exit, festival of performance art (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Ruble rate, Central Bank Russia (Moscow, Russia)
Information, International Festival of Modern Arts, Chagall Museum (Vitebsk, Belarus)
1997 Video-paintings, Video unten Grund (Zurich, Switzerland)
Self-portrait, Rote Fabrik (Zurich, Switzerland)
Collections
ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo Fondazione, (Araba, Spain)
MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, (Vienna, Austria)
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, (Turin, Italy)
Centro Video insight, (Turin, Italy)
National Museum of Woman in the Arts, (Washington D.C, USA)
V-A-C Foundation, (Moscow, Russia)
Kunsthalle, (Hamburg, Germany)
Zarya center for contemporary art, Vladivostok, (Russia)
Gazprombank collections, (Russia)
Stella art Foundation, (Moscow, Russia)
Burasan Foundation, (Istanbul, Turkey)
The State Hermitage Museum, (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, (Turin, Italy)
Centro Videoinsight, (Turin, Italy)
National Museum of Woman in the Arts, (Washington D.C, USA)
Foundation Viktory? (Moscow, Russia)
Foundation Contemporary, MMOMA Moscow Museum of Contemporary art, (Moscow, Russia)
Private collections of Victor Bondarenko etc.
Private collections of Alexander Bondarenko
Private collections of Pierre Brochet
Private collections of Mikhail Alshibaya etc.
Grants/Residencies
2007 Centre International des Recollets (Paris, France)
2006 Kuenstler Haus Schlieren (Zurich, Switzerland)
2005 MAK Schindler House Art and Architecture Residence Program (Los Angeles, USA)
2004 Kuenstler Haus Boswil (Boswil, Switzerland)
Kuenstler Haus Schoeppingen (Schoeppingen, Germany)
2002 Academy Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany)
Education
1988-1991 Art School
1993-1995 Art Academy (Moscow, Russia)
1996-1998 F+F Art and Media School (Zurich, Switzerland)
1998-1999 Center of Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia)
2001-2003 UdK Berlin, Class of Prof. Rebecca Horn, Diploma multi-media (Berlin, Germany)