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Ekaterina Ilina
1991 / Cheboksary, Russia
Visual artist based in Tbilisi, Georgia
Artist statement
My artistic practice is dedicated to themes of memory and the search for inner wholeness. In a reality on the verge of fragmentation and reassembly, I explore the origins of emotional resilience through personal and collective experience, navigating the tension between impermanence and eternity. My reflections on selfhood, psychology, and spirituality are supported by the practice of Vipassana meditation, readings of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and the study of Jungian philosophy.

My method is rooted in a site-specific approach, where place, context, and theme determine the material and form of expression. This leads me to work with a range of media — from textiles and glass to concrete, stone, and metal — allowing each project to evolve in dialogue with space and meaning. In installations using domestic textiles, I weave together visual codes of femininity, expressing its quiet strength, invisible labor, and the lineage of motherhood. Through long meditative processes, I intuitively assemble fragments of mirrors, glass, concrete, and stone, shaping a kind of archaeology of the unconscious — a search for grounding within fragility and the sacred within the everyday.

I believe beauty is a source of inner harmony. My art is an invitation to contemplation, where the viewer may encounter themselves and find a sense of solace.



CV
Education:
2022 — 2023 Ukranian Psychology School (one year online course) / Jungian psychoanalysis
2012 — 2016 she worked as a restorer, a modeler and painted walls at many cultural heritage sites (the Conservatory in Moscow and in St. Petersburg, the Kronstadt Cathedral, the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg etc.)
2009 — 2012 student of Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art, Russia / ceramics

Selected exhibitions:
2025 “Entering the liminal” group exhibition, Sabantuy festival, Tbilisi, Georgia
2025 “Lovely Glitch” group exhibition, Art house, Tbilisi, Georgia
2025 “In good hands” group exhibition, “The Gallery” gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2024  Final group show of the residency, Art Center Padula, Padula, Italy
2024 “Mother’s lessons” personal exhibition, artist's home yard, Tbilisi, Georgia
2024 “Homecoming” group exhibition, Sisters Room Artist Run Space, Tbilisi, Georgia
2024 online: Artist of the month (February) on the Artjobs.com
2024 “Salt room” group exhibition, Sisters Room Artist Run Space, Tbilisi, Georgia

Artist residences:
2024 “Padula Art Center”, Padula, Italy
2010 Foundation “Krzyżowa”, Wroclaw, Poland

Press:
2024 ”Mezzogiorno Italia” TV show on Rai3 channel, report on the exhibition in Art Center Padula, Italy