Katerina Belkina (*1974, Samara, Russia, lives and works in Berlin) was awarded the Lucas-Cranach Prize in 2015 and the Hasselblad Masters Award 2016. Her works are the closing statement in the third and last part of our exhibition series on nude photography entitled Ideal Beauty - Beauty Ideals after the two preceding exhibits by Guenter Knop and Massimo Capodieci. It was important for us that the series finishes with the position of a female artist who is also the youngest of the three.
The works shown treat the representation of beauty in one's own image on one hand and in images from hundreds of years of art history on the other (Paint Series). In Hieroglyph Katerina Belkina literally puts Leonardo's Vitruvian Man under the magnifying glas. And in Chapman's she scoops up the fragments of artificial beauty ideals and gender roles.
Venue
Till Richter Museum - Schloss Buggenhagen
Straße des Friedens 6
17440 Buggenhagen
Germany
