Ekaterina Ashitkova

Ekaterina Ashitkova was born in 1986 in Moscow, Russia. She lives and works here. At the age of three Ekaterina lost her father and was grown up along with her younger sister by her mother. During her childhood she loved to draw. She visited drama studio, then went to drama class. While being a teenage Katya tried her first video-works.From 2003 to 2008 Ekaterina got studied law in Institute of Economics and Business.Ekaterina got cinematographic education in Russian State University of Cinematography named after Sergey Gerasimov (VGIK) from 2007 to 2010.In 2010-2012 she worked with the AWOTT music band as a musician, photographer and then in 2011 she made a nine-minute long music video for the band. Also in this year AWOTT for the first time visited USA for a tour.In 2013 Ekaterina got married and birth to her son Vsevolod.In 2015 Ekaterina got short educational program in FotoDepartament (St. Petersburg) «Mythologique» curated by Anastasia Bogomolova. So she started her project Urbes.Ekaterina is interested in themes ofPostmodern epoch with different references, reconstruction of the of the objects, places, ideas;Ideas of surrealism and searching the nature of consciousness.Women nature and also nostalgy for childhood from the point of learning human consciousness. Ekaterina works with installation, modern sculpture, video, photography and herself as a performer.