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Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is pleased to introduce the recipient of the first Research Fellowship, Katerina Sidorova, a visual artist and researcher based in The Hague, The Netherlands.
This fellowship (initiated in November 2023) invites an artist-researcher to participate in and initiate research projects that connect to the Stedelijk Museum’s collection and established lines of research. Over the course of six months, Sidorova will focus on Nikolai Khardzhiev’s archive, library an art collection, which is on permanent loan at the Stedelijk. Her findings are presented in the form of essays on Stedelijk Studies. Sidorova is working in collaboration with members of the research staff Robbie Schweiger and Frank van Lamoen, with the guidance of Charl Landvreugd, the Stedelijk Museum’s Head of Research and Curatorial Practice.
Katerina Sidorova (1991, NL/RU, she/her) is a visual artist and a researcher based in The Hague, Netherlands. She has obtained a BFA from both the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University (YSPU) followed by a MA at Glasgow School of Art and PhD at the Philosophy department of YSPU. Recent exhibitions include a solo show ‘Bottleneck’ at West, The Hague, solo ‘As a Pile of Ash’ at 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow and a duo exhibition ‘Gläserner Mensch’ at Dürst Britt and Mayhew, The Hague.
Working with installation, performance and text, Katerina Sidorova looks at multiple facets of mortality and necropolitics in her practice. Her artistic interests lie within the themes of death beyond human-centrism, state power representation and performativity of non-democratic political regimes as well as cyclical ecologies and practices of resistance. Particularly engaged in exploring societal hierarchies, mythologies, staging, and performativity as a political strategy, Sidorova seeks to understand how mortality reverberates on all levels of human and more-than-human experience, from the intimate and personal to the grand dynamics of power between the state and its population.
Essays by Katerina Sidorova
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