Katya Quel is a Berlin-based artist and curator. Her artistic practice is dedicated to exploring the power of a fairytale imaginary narrative hidden in the combination of materials with modern technologies in the hands of women.
Katya promotes relationships between different areas of knowledge, blurring the boundaries between artistic and academic research, theory and practice, science and fiction, design and art, culture and nature. Its aim is to make visible new forms of artistic coexistence that go beyond the traditional canons and open up other possibilities for telling ourselves and our surroundings. Katya wants to imagine worlds in stories, beings in universes, that can offer new frameworks for understanding and acting on the contemporary ecological crisis.
Raised in Moscow, Russia, moved to Berlin in 2015 for political reasons. 2023 - Master's degree at the Berlin Weissensee School of Art 2019-2020 - Erasmus exchange at the Beaux Arts in Paris, France2016-2018 - Master of Arts in spatial strategies at the Berlin Art School. 2008 - Bachelor's degree in Visual Communication at the Moscow Design School
Selected events:2022 - Scholarship from Artists Inside, Berlin2020-2022 - Head of the non-profit art space Erratum, Berlin2017-2018 - Member of the curatorial team at the 8leben art center, Berlin Wedding2017 - PACT Zollverein Residence, Essen, Germany2017 - Founder and curator of art project Rejectology
Selected exhibitions:
2023:
"Iconostasis of Hypocrisy: Dogma" @Gr_und, Berlin (solo exhibition)
2022:
"All The World's a Stage" @Studio Haniball, Berlin (group exhibition)
"Transgressive" @Kühlhaus, Berlin (group exhibition)
"Artists Inside" @C&A Karl-Max Straße, Berlin (group exhibition)
"I got you covered" @Culterim Berlin (group exhibition)
"Yet Yet" @Kühlhaus, Berlin (group exhibition)
"Exhaustive Beauty" @ Dora Ostrovsky, Frankfurt am Main (group exhibition)
"Jitdam Kapeel" @ Humboldt Forum, Berlin (group exhibition)
"Llamasgemalas" @ Jihad, Mexico City (group exhibition, curation)
