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Ekaterina Balaban was born in Berezniki in the Urals. Since 2022 based in Latvia. 

Ekaterina Balaban works with the medium of documentary photography and topics of anthropogenic changes and colonial intervention in nature, psychogeography and social memory of the natural landscape. This interest is closely related to her personal experience. The city in which she was born experienced a man-made environmental disaster, which was the result of the colonial Soviet concept of subjugating nature.

As an artist and documentary photographer, she participates in exhibitions and is being published in magazines.


 


EXHIBITIONS

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  • OFF d’Arles Photography Festival — Participant in the SAIF X La Kabine 2025 Revelation finalists’ project screening. Arles, France. July 2025

  • OFF d’Arles Photography Festival — Group exhibition Centrifuge. Arles, France. July 2025

  • Belfast Photo Festival (participation in the exhibition of photobooks). Belfast, UK. 1-30 June 2023.

  • Les Boutographies – Festival of Photography in Montpellier, France. 6-28 May 2023

  • Festival OFF (participation in the exhibition of photobooks). Bratislava, Slovakia. 2022

  • International Biennale "Art for Future". Multimedia art museum. Moscow, Russia. 2021-January 2022. As a part if the Biennale project had solo exhibition at the Ural Center for Contemporary Art in Yekaterinburg, Russia

  • Point 55.754630, 37.638530. «Ground Solyanka» Gallery. Moscow, Russia. 2021

  • "Limited visibility". Cultural Foundation "Ekaterina". Moscow, Russia. 2021

  • "Blind spot". Polytechnic Museum. Moscow, Russia. 2021

  • "Peacetime". Gorky Park Museum. Moscow, Russia. 2020

  • "Winzawod. OPEN». Center for Contemporary Art WINZAVOD. Moscow, Russia. 2019

  • "Target". Craft House. Tula, Russia. 2019

  • "Target". Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation. Moscow, Russia. 2019

  • "Class meeting". Center for Contemporary Art WINZAVOD. Moscow, Russia. 2018




​ARTIST RESIDENCIES
 

  • Participant in the experimental art research platform on the sailing boat Godzilla, exploring the environmental and geopolitical challenges of the Baltic Sea, July 2025​​

     

 

EDUCATION
 

© Ekaterina Balaban

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