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)