Evgenia
Makarova


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Evgenia Makarova was born in Syktyvkar, Russia. She began her career as an artist in 2020, after working in the field of graphic design. In 2023, Evgenia moved to the United Kingdom, where she currently lives and works.


Artist Statement


Evgenia’s work centers on mental distortions, cognitive errors, and the emotional forces that shape human behavior and consciousness. Through painting, sculpture, video, and sound art, she traces the contours of social norms as subtle instruments of control, while navigating themes of madness, trauma, and inner unrest. Her practice engages with the discomfort of uncertainty and embraces the shadowy aspects of the self. She finds meaning in the imperfect, the flawed, the "abnormal"—what society deems wrong or ugly. Her works reflect a distorted yet captivating beauty, like fragments of a personal catastrophe, reminding us of a quiet, enduring sickness at the core of things.




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Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 Night of Ideas 2024: Sound Experiments, French Institute, CCI Fabrica, Moscow, Russia
2022 Fotogenia Film Poetry & Divergent Narratives Festival Vol.4, Mexico City, Mexico

2022 Motion Pictures International Film Festival, Alberta, Nigeria

2022 Wild Out Video Festival, Taipei, Taiwan

2022 */ ADAF | 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival | VIDEO ART, Greece

2022 Elimination of norms, Newnow + Blanar Art, Moscow, Russia

2022 Bomba Video Club, Bomba Gallery, CCI Fabrica, Moscow, Russia

2022 Poetry Film Live: a new way with poetry, The platform for poetry films, UK

2022 The 3rd One Hour International Short Film Festival (OHISFF), Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2022 Female Gaze, Galerie Am Roten Hof, Vienna, Austria

2021 VII Festival Video nodoCaRACAS 2021, Caracas, Venezuela

2021 The Wrong Biennale nº5, Acropolis Remix | Embraces: Utopian Proximities

2021 The Bath Open Art Prize 2021, 44AD artspace, Bath, UK

2021 AIR Open 2021, AIR Gallery, London, UK

2021 Summer II, Envision Arts, USA

2021 Rebirth, Florence Contemporary Gallery, Italy

2021 Abstraction, Manifold Global Art Gallery, Fountain Hill, USA

2021 Tactile Sublime, Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, New-York, USA

2021 Speechless, Albe Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2020 The 3rd Abstracts juried art exhibition, J. Mane Gallery, Voorhees, USA


Art Fairs

2023 PORT ART FAIR Contemporary Art Fair, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2022 BLAZAR Young Contemporary Art Fair, Moscow, Russia

2021 WIN-WIN II, Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow, Russia


Awards

2021 Finalist The Bath Open Art Prize 2021, 44AD artspace, Bath, UK

2021 Short List Tāctus, 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece

2021 Short List Fresh Legs, Galleri Heike Arndt DK, Berlin, Germany

2020 Honored Mention: The 3rd Abstracts juried art exhibition, J. Mane Gallery, Voorhees, USA



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