Biography of Katya Berestova
Bio:
Born in St. Petersburg in 1992. Painter/graphic artist, poetess (Samoucha) Since 2018, member of the Union of Artists "Solaris". Since 2018, member of the Union of Russian Photographers. Since 2019, he has been teaching a course on the topic “Analytical Artistic Composition.” In 2021, the first photo book KOLOKOL was published in Besard edition Paris.Nominated for 2022 Foam Paul Huf Award 2022 Amsterdam In 2022, I tried my hand at directing, and now I have three films in the works. In 2023, the photo book "DREAM N3" will be published by the publishing house "Print Gallery" St. Petersburg since 2024 it has been part of the secretariat of the Moscow branch of the Union of Photographers of Russia and a member of the jury of the Union of Photographers of Russia . In 2024 photo book "Out of Time" edition Skeleton Key Press, Norway
The photographs are in private Russian and European collections
Contact :
berestovaka10ka@gmail.com
Exhibitions:
2018- Joint exhibition of painting and graphics, with the writer Dmitry Ubyz "Broadcast of reality" Moscow
2018 - "FIXAGE" Central House of Artists (CHA) Moscow
2019 \ 2020 - "Leather" Gallery Zerno St. Petersburg
2020 - Exhibition of the finalists of the competition "Young Photographers of Russia 2020"
2020 - "Petersburg" Gallery Zerno St. Petersburg
2021 - "KOLOKOL" photobook ( Pierre Bessard editions / 200 copies ) Paris
2021 - "Black Square on the Other Side" Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts
2021 - Retrospective of the competition "Young Photographers of Russia 2010-2020" Kaluga House of Music
2021 - Portrait exhibition "You are a Creation" Festival of Russian Art Photography Serpukhov Museum and Exhibition Center
2021 - Exhibition of graphics "External \ internal" RGBM Moscow
2021 - "Festival of Russian Art Photography", ZERNO Gallery, St. Petersburg.
2022 - "Argus, photography among art" Winter Theatre, Sochi 2022
2022 - Foam Paul Huf Award Nomination 2022 Amsterdam
2022 - "In the style of Moscow modern" Nosov's Mansion, Moscow 2022
2022 - KOLOKOL exhibition within the framework of the MFR Museum of Fine Arts Kaluga
2022 - KOLOKOL Kaluga/Ryazan/Krasnoyarsk
2022 - personal exhibition LOVE'S SECRET FREAKS space F5 Noisegraph St. Petersburg
2022 -personal Exhibition WORLD UNDER THE CASTLE SPACE PLACE gallery Nizhny Tagi
2022 - collective exhibition "12/25" gallery ZERNO St. Petersburg
2023 - photo "DREAM N3" - "Print Gallery" St. Petersburg
2023 - "Argus, photography among art" Winter Theatre, Sochi
2023 - personal exhibition "Dream number" gallery SPACE PLACE gallery Nizhny Tagil
2023 - exhibition of the winners of the festival "Young Photography" Kaluga ICC
2023 - premiere of the short film "Telephone" cinema Karo Novy Arbat 2023 - collective exhibition "Life cycle. Tree" Veliky Novgorod, Kremlin park
2023 - collective exhibition "Game of Shadows" State Darwin Museum , Moscow
2023 - collective exhibition "Life cycle. Tree" Veliky Novgorod, Greenhouse, TREST space
2024 - screening of the film "Telephone", Perspektiva art space, Al-Kadr cinema club, Luch photo laboratory
2024 - exhibition “Hypostases”, collective exhibition “Who creates the shores” cultural and exhibition center “THE TOWER” Yoshkar-Ola,
2024- Collective exhibition "Illusions of Dreams" in a bomb shelter, Moscow, TsTI Factory, Gallery "Bomb"
2024 - premiere of the documentary film "Wolverine flovers" St. Petersburg, F5
2024 - project "Signal" exhibition within the framework of the MFR, Russian Museum of Photography, Nizhny Novgorod
2024 - personal exhibition “The Wall”, Photo Studio gallery Garage, Lohja, Finland
2024 - photo book "Out of Time" edition Skeleton Key Press, Norway
Katia Berestova’s new book, Out of Time, invites viewers into a symbolic, dreamlike world that intricately blends beauty, decay, reflection, and transformation. As a self-taught and prolific artist, Berestova uses photography to actively engage with the ever-changing essence of life and its significance. Her art is a vocation, a continual process that intertwines with life itself, conveying the core of existence and giving rise to a personally initiated realm of beauty, spirit, and dream. The collection of works presented in Out of Time, curated from Berestova’s early to most recent works, weaves layers of meaning into a visual narrative with time as the common thread. Scenes often depict evidence of decay or are set against a backdrop of deterioration, rendered in black and white, bringing shadows into light, both technically and metaphorically. Ultimately, the book serves as a hopeful exploration of the pursuit of light and harmony in a dark world. It is representative of an ongoing interaction resembling the sign of infinity where everything flows in and out, demonstrating the profound and transformative power of art.
Russell Joslin
