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About me
Ekaterina Ilina
1991 / Cheboksary, Russia
Visual artist based in Tbilisi, Georgia
Artist statement
My artistic practice explores memory, impermanence, and the search for inner wholeness. Drawing on Vipassana meditation and Jungian philosophy, I reflect on selfhood, psychology, and the tension between fragility and resilience. My site-specific approach allows materials—textiles, glass, concrete, stone, metal—to emerge from context and theme. In installations, I weave codes of femininity, invisible labor, and maternal lineage, while meditative processes shape mirror, glass, and stone into an archaeology of the unconscious. I believe beauty invites contemplation, offering grounding, harmony, and moments of solace.



CV
Education:
2025 Art Project residency (online), Get Art Fit school
2023 One year online course in European School of Psychology, 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 “Virus” group exhibition, art center DeBaile, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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:
2025 “AADK Spain”, Cruce program, Blanca, Spain
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