About. Natalia Drachinskaya

Nata Drachinskaya is a visual artist, sculptor exploring the theme of memories, their transformations and retroactivity. What are the mechanisms our memory is constructed with? What is the weight of memory? 

Some of Nata’s projects are based on the stories of her family revealing the links with the big history of USSR and Russia. While working on the projects the artist is basing on her own reflections of the processes and events. Nata believes the most important a person can share is his/ her experience and feelings. 

The artist uses different mediums: sculpture, collage, photography, drawings, video. Often the mediums are mixed mirroring the processes we can see around and inside us. 


Now based in Santa Clara, CA, USA. 

Education 

2019 — 2021 ICA Moscow

2019 — 2020 Fotodepartament

2018 — 2019 Project school curated by Alla Mirovskaya (Moscow)

2017 — 2017 Master-class “Material experiments with photography” (FOAM, Amsterdam)


Art Residences

2022 Photobook as an Object (RPS, Tokyo, Japan)

2022 The Concrete Symposium sculptural residency (Szigetmonostor, Hungary)

2019 Autumn Awakeness art-residence be M42 (Tbilisi) 

2018-2019 “Writing the place” art-residence by Cultural Center ZIL (Moscow)


Exhibitions 

2022  BETON ARCAI 7.0 (Nick Gallery, Pécs, Hungary)

2022 ““Perevorot_illustrated” (Yerevan, St. Petersburg, Moscow, New York and Easton) 

2022 “Art of the future” biennale by Multimedia Art Museum (Moscow, Russia) 

2021 “I don’t see boarders or where dragons live” (Peschanaya Gallery, Moscow) 2021 “Time of Things” (Winzavod, Moscow)

2021 “Constructor_Death” (Constructor space, Saint-Petersburg)

2021 “(In)visible cities” (Nagornaya gallery, Moscow)

2021 “Home sweet home” (Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow) 2020 “TemperatYRA 2.0” (Electrozavod gallery, Moscow)

2020 “Photobook and zin: dummy” (Winzavod, Moscow)

2020 “Regard (less)”, (Cube gallery, Moscow)

2020 Blazar art fair

2020 “Baseless” (Winzavod, Moscow)

2020 “Winter is here”, Gilyarovsky Center, Moscow (collective)

2019 Collage exhibition, Gilyarovsky Center, Moscow (collective)

2019 “Presence” international festival of contemporary photography by Fotodepartament (St-Pete)

2019 “Digitaion / Family Diamonds”, art gallery “The Arc”, Uglich (solo)

2019 “MoscowMorphosis”, Gilyarovsky Center, Moscow

2018 “Together/ separately” — exhibition of the art-class of Alla Mirovskaya, Sreda, Moscow

2018 “Pro_live” — exhibition of the art-class of Alla Mirovskaya, Photoparade festival, Uglich

2018 Street Sans Frontières, Paris, France

2018 Festival of contemporary art “Art-subject”, Vladimir, Russia


Awards 

2017 LensCulture Street Photography awards (editors choice) 

2017 London Street Photography (finalist)

2017 Monochrome Awards (honorable mention)

2016 IPA CIS (honorable mention)