Curator
Part of events on ArtRabbit in: Helsinki
Ksenia Yurkova is a multidisciplinary artist living between Russia, Finland and Austria. She is interested in problems of language and communication functioning through processes of stereotyping; their enclosure into aspects of politics and economy; their operation in memory registers; and how these interconnect with problems of veracity and reliance. Yurkova researches the phenomena's existence and habitude, relating to both verbal and visual languages, specifically seeking non-verbal manifestations through a body and its affects. Ksenia participated in numerous festivals, among them: Grand Prix Photofestival (Poland, 2015), Athens Photofestival (Greece, 2015, 2017, 2019), Presence Festival (Russia, 2017), Riga Photomonth (Latvia, 2019), Krakow Photomonth (Poland, 2019); nominated for Kuryokhin Prize (Russia, 2013, 2018) and Kassel Dummy Awards (Germany, 2016); won Gomma Grant (UK, 2014); published artist books and research monographs. She holds MA in political journalism and MFA in visual art.
