Elizaveta
Konovalova was born in Moscow in 1986. She studied at the National school of
fine arts in Paris (ENSBA) and participated in several residency programs in
Russia, France, Finland, Germany and Switzerland. In 2018 Elizaveta obtained a
PhD in visual arts at PSL University, presenting an exhibition and a publication with a common
title – K. Her thesis is dedicated to Kaliningrad,
exclave of Russia inside Eastern Europe.
Elizaveta
Konovalova is laureate of the award "Prix Sciences Po pour l'art contemporain" of Paris Institute for Political Studies (2014) and finalist of the SAM prize for contemporary
art of Palais de Tokyo (2017).
SOLO SHOWS
2021 Script, Alkovi (Helsinki, Finland)
2020 Svoboda. 1919. 2020, CCI Fabrika (Moscow, Russia)
2018 K, Beaux-Arts de
Paris, PhD defense exhibition (Paris, France)
2017 The End of the Asphalt, gallery Maubert (Paris, France)
2014 Wetterseite, FRISE
Künstlerhaus (Hamburg, Germany)
selected GROUP SHOWS
2021
Innovation, exhibition of the nominees for the Innovation Prize, Arsenal, National center for contemporary art (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)
Territoires de l'eau, co-organized with the museum Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, François Schneider Foundation (Wattwiller, France)
Fifth Wave, Special Project of the 2nd Garage Triennial, Shchusev State museum of architecture (Moscow, Russia)
2019
Encountered Error, SOCIÉTÉ d'électricité (Brussels, Belgium)
INN
DIARY, NAIRS center for
contemporary art (Scuol, Switzerland)
2018
Metageography : orientalism
and dreams of robinsons, ZARYA center for contemporary art (Vladivostok,
Russia)
Biennale de l'Image Tangible, several venues (Paris, France)
At
The Fringes, project of Department of Research Arts, pavillion n°64
"Optika", VDNKh (Moscow, Russia)
Listening to the waters, Museu do Dinheiro, Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria
Nacional (Lisbon, Portugal)
Art-Lobster-Tart, Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, parallel program, A3 gallery (Moscow, Russia)
2016
Badlands, curator
Andrey Erofeev, ZARYA center for contemporary art (Vladivostok, Russia)
Going Under, curator Julie Crenn, gallery Maubert
(Paris, France)
2014
What We Hear, When We See, curator Natasha Tamruchi,
MANIFESTA’10 parallel program (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Beauty of
Disgraceful, curator Andrei Erofeev, gallery Beliaevo (Moscow, Russia)
Landscape on Landscape,
gallery Dohyang Lee (Paris, France)
2013
Jeune
Création, le Centquatre (Paris, France)
RESIDENCIES
2019 HIAP, Connecting Points program | Helsinki, Finland
2015, 2016 ZARYA center for contemporary art |
Vladivostok, Russia
2014 Divnogorye, museum and natural reserve | Voronezh
region, Russia
2014 FRISE Künstlerhaus | Hamburg, Germany
2013 National Center for Contemporary Arts | Kronstadt,
Saint Petersburg, Russia
2012 NAIRS center for contemporary art, festival
Culturescapes | Scuol, Switzerland
2011 La Malterie | Lille, France
