Ustina Yakovleva
Devfto x Independent Artist
USTINA YAKOVLEVA born in 1987 in Moscow. In 2009 she graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical University (Graphics Faculty) and in the same year graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow. Ustina was resident in Gridchinhall residency and NCCA residency in Kronstadt, Russia, in 2014. Shortlist of art prize for young artists STRABAG, Vienna, 2014. Works are in private collections in Russia, England, France, Germany, Austria and The Netherlands.
She creates works without sketches, as she is interested in self-forming composition as part of the creation process; drawing develops as a living creature, taking new forms throughout the work. Individual elements like the beads, stitches, and lines construct my structures and form my visual language. In her works, she uses an automatic writing process which binds the time into the material form. Her practice revolves around labor-intensive contemplative practices that navigate my works. She defines herself as a process-based artist embedded in the nature and the traditions of my north Russian heritage. Through long running meditative and pagan practices Ustina creates objects, installations, books and paintings, all as an effect of time and locale.
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USTINA YAKOVLEVA
Solo exhibitions
2019
"Porato basko", with Ulyana Podkorytova, Art Museum of Arctic exploration named after Borisov, Arkhangelsk
"Russian Witches", with Alina Glazoun and Lyudmila Baronina, Centrepoint Artwall, Basel, Switzerland
One-piece exhibition at Between Windows space, Moscow
2018
"Conversion" with German Lavrovsky, Dreiviertel art space, Bern, Switzerland
Solo show at Centrepoint Artwall, Basel, Switzerland
Solo show at Vyksa art-residence, Vyksa, Nizhny Novgorod oblast
"Temporal Touch", Anna Nova Gallery, St.-Petersburg
2017
"Ambience", with Andrey Dmitrenko, Center for contemporary art Zarya, Vladivostok
2016
"Occupation", Agora Collective, Berlin, Germany
"Morphologien des Wandels", Kabinett Auktion & Antiquitäten GmbH, Berlin, Germany
"Spine of Twilight Lady" with Ilya Romanov, Kultproekt gallery, Moscow
2012
"Inner Surface", Triumph Gallery, Moscow
"Inversion", AA collections / Knoll Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2010
"Ust-Tsilma", Start, Moscow Centre for Contemporary Art Winzavod, Moscow
Selected Group exhibitions
2019
The 5th Ural Industrial Biennale of contemporary art "Immortality", Ural Optical and Mechanical Plant, Ekaterinburg
"Everything is not what it seems", special project of the 5th Ural Biennale, Ivan Slovtsov Museum Complex, Tyumen’
"Fringe", Gallery Valo, Arktikum, Rovaniemi, Finland
2018
"Everything is not What It Seems to be" within "Bazhov-Fest", Ural NCCA, Ekaterinburg
2017
“Hooray! Sculpture!”, CEH Manege, Saint-Petersburg
“Structures. Fraсtals”, Kultproekt gallery, Moscow
2016
"Nominibus trivialibus, synonimis selectis / Simple Names, Selected Synonyms",
MGU Botanic garden, parallel program of the 5th Moscow biennale of young art, Moscow
"Feet in the water, head in the clouds", Exhibition Space Here on Taganka, Moscow
"T!LT", Paris, France
2015
"Urbi et Orbi", Special project of 6 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, RGGU,
Department of Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
"Urbi et Orbi", Special project of 6 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, RGGU,
Department of Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
"Sculptures we don’t see", Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow
2014
"Detective", Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art
2012
"Price", III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Agency. ART RU, Moscow
"Russian Renaissance", Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
2011
"No Translation", International Culture Project Art-Residence, Moscow – Special Project of
IV Moscow Biennale "Russian Landscape", Guelman Gallery, Moscow
2010
"Do not disturb" (NAUKA 254), "Intimate capital", "Rare species" (CCI Fabrika) – projects
in the framework of the 2nd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
2009
"Can’t take it anymore", Voronezh Centre for Contemporary Art
"Save as", group show at Armyansky pereulok 13, Moscow
"Art after the End of History", Central House of Artists, Moscow
"Let me think", Red October factory, Moscow – Special project of the III Moscow Biennale