Kristina Sergeeva (1996) is a visual artist from St. Petersburg, Russia. She uses photography, book and print forms. Her artistic practice revolves around exploring themes of collective memory and personal perception of the Russian context. In her works, she focuses on reworking and reflecting on history. In her projects, she seeks to emphasize the transition from individual experience to universal understanding, interpreting objective reality into symbolic structures. Through her works Kristina seeks to provoke a dialog about the contemporary heritage as a phenomenon; how the closed value system and ideology of the victorious country affects its image in the outside world. The author analyzes how power structures use the Soviet past to promote affective representations of the present and shape perceptions of the future.
k.tinasergeeva@gmail.com
Education:
2020-2021 — ’General Line’, author’s course by Jana Romanova
2020 — Workshop with Oleg Klimov, Kaliningrad region
2017-2019 — Fotografika Academy, Saint-Petersburg
Personal exhibitions:
2023 — Black cooperative, 'Nuclear space', Moscow
Group exhibitions:
2023 — Festival of photography and media art «PhotoN», Kaliningrad
2023 — 'Razvorot: Photobooks and zines', Voronezh
2023 — Zine-zine Festival, Khabarovsk
2023 — ‘Photobook: History, Document, Object’ Pennlab Gallery, Moscow
2022 — Exhibition of Nordic photobooks NW Gallery Copenhagen, Danmark
2021 — 100 Best Photography Books in Central and Eastern Europe 2000–2020, MOP Bratislava
2021 — New Talents, Belgrade Photo Month Festival, Belgrade
2021 — ‘Home’, The first avant-garde Festival, Ivanov
2020 — ‘Photobook and zine: Draft’, Winzavod, Moscow
2019 — Diploma exhibition, Fotografika gallery, Saint-Petersburg
2019 — ‘One’, Fotografika Gallery, Saint-Petersburg
2019 — Young Russian Photocontest, Kaluga
2018 — Participation in the project «Mirror», New Media Lab, Saint-Petersburg
Publication:
2024 — DVOR Magazine
2024 — Scopio Edition
2023 — Zone, Collective Book
2023 — Zrfdbck
2023 — Yogurt Magazine
2023 — Conceptual Projects
2023 — Phases Magazine
2023 — Transference Magazine
2022 — Republic
2021 — One’s To Watch 2021: Community Part 1, BJP
2021 — Grandmama's Print
2021 — Outlast Journal
2021 — Discarded Magazine
Awards:
2020 — One of three winners BGD Photo Month
2020 — Talent Of The Year 2020 — Nominee, International Photography Grant
Residences:
2023 — Polart, Norilsk
2022 — Zero Room, Samara (Nizina Fest)