Biography of Katya Berestova
She was born in St. Petersburg in 1992. Painter / graphic artist, poet (Self-taught) member of the Union of Artists "Solaris" \ member of the Union of Photo Artists of Russia In 2021, the first KOLOKOL photobook was published in Besard edition Paris. In 2022 she was nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award 2022 Amsterdam In 2022, she tried her hand at directing, and now there are three films in the works. In 2023, the photobook "DREAM N3" is published by the publishing house "Print Gallery" St. Petersburg Since 2024, he has been a member of the secretariat of the Moscow branch of the Union of Photographic Artists of Russia. The book "Out of Time" is published in 2024 by the Norwegian publisher Skeleton Key Press Since 2024, he has been a member of the secretariat and the admissions committee of the Moscow branch of the SFR Since 2025, she has been teaching at the IPLF Institute of Photography. Member of the jury of international competitions since 2025 The development of our own school has been underway since 2025 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
2024 - personal exhibition “Kovcheg”, Center for Contemporary Art “Chudo”, Kursk
2024 - Member of the secretariat and admissions Committee of the Moscow branch of the SFR
2025 - collective exhibition "Women's Stories" Center for Photography MARCH, Yekaterinburg
2025 - collective exhibition of the MFR 2024 in the gallery "MOSFILM" Moscow
2025 - curator of the collective exhibition of the first course cohort of E. Berestova "Creation", Institute of the Institute of Photographic Physics and Literature
2025 - collective exhibition "Point of Involvement", Erzi Museum, Saransk
2025 - Jury member of the "Young Photography" competition 2025 - Jury member of the "Argus" competition
2025 - collective exhibition "Women's Stories" MARCH Photography Center, Yekaterinburg 2025 - MFR collective exhibition 2024 at the MOSFILM Gallery, Moscow
2025 - curator of the collective exhibition of the first stream of Berestova's course. "Creation", IPLF Institute
2025 - collective exhibition "Point of Involvement", Erzi Museum, Saransk 2025 - member of the jury of the Young Photography competition
2025 - member of the jury of the Argus competition
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
