Elina Gusarova (b. 1998) is a visual artist and researcher from Russia with a background in architecture and curating. Growing up in the vast landscapes of Siberia, Elina’s work explores the profound connection between humanity and the environment. In this connection she is particulary interested in the forces that create and transform communities: identity, and history. Through photography, archival research, textiles, and found objects, in the forms of artist books or installations, Elina engages with imagery that emerges at the intersection of knowledge and imagination.

For Elina, physical interaction with research material is important in process. In her current project, she working with Inconvenient heritage, focusing on the Kolyma region where her familial utopia confronts collective catastrophe of mass repression. By combining visual research with physical presence, she seeks to develop a language that can adequately address the past that remains marginalized in mainstream historical narratives and identity systems.

 In 2020, she founded the contemporary art center “YADRO” in her hometown of Krasnoyarsk, where she actively contributed to the development of the local art community. Since 2023, she has been based in Moscow, pursuing her art practice and studies at the Rodchenko School.

 

Group exhibitions

2024 DARK MATTER / ONKAF gallery, New Delhi, India

2024 Heart is not stone / Museum center “Ploshchad Mira”, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

2024 Seven / festival Earth of People / Levashovsky bakery / Saint Petersburg, Russia2024   Love from and to / Curator: Anna Malai / Typography I.D. Sytin, Moscow, Russia 

2024  The Village That Never Sleeps / curator: Nicolas Oduro / CI Fabrika, Moscow, Russia

2023   The Other Side of the Pillow, The Samoobman art-space/ Moscow, Russia

2022   Taigart. Flickering on the Border, Museum Center Ploshad’ Mira / Krasnoyarsk, Russia

2022   Srez 2.0 (The Cut 2.0), Youth Artists Union / Krasnoyarsk, Russia

2021  I, SPACE, Kvadrat loft-space / Krasnoyarsk, Russia


Curatorial practice (selected)

2023

Exhibitions in The Industry gallery / Krasnoyarsk, Russia: 

Following, Daniil Shkaruba personal exhibition, photography 

Spring on Mira Street, Alexandr Romanov personal exhibition 

Oort Cloud, Anna Reinhardt personal exhibition, ceramics 

City O, group exhibition of architectural research

2022

point.origins, Kvadrat loft-space / Krasnoyarsk, Russia 

Taigart. flickering on the border, Museum Center Ploshad’ Mira / Krasnoyarsk, Russia


Education

2023-pres.    Rodchenko Art School (mentor: Elena Anosova)  

2016-2021    Siberian Federal University, Institute of Architecture and Design (Architecture)

Awards

2024 Winner of the SCAN AWARDS in the “Work of the Year” category

2024 Winner of IV Grant for Artists and Researchers from The GES-2 House of Culture / Moscow, Russia

Other activities

2024 Participant in the contemporary art fair |catalog| / Sytin Printing House / Moscow 

2024 Participant in the first Siberian contemporary art fair SCAN FAIR / “Kvadrat,” Krasnoyarsk, Russia

2024 Participant of the WIN-WIN fair, СCA Winzavod / Moscow, Russia

2023 Participant of the WIN-WIN fair, СCA Winzavod / Moscow, Russia 

2023 Speaker of the lecture “Community management in the Art Community”, Museum Center Ploshad’ Mira/ Krasnoyarsk, Russia

2019- pres.  Founder of YADRO Center of Contemporary Arts/ Krasnoyarsk, Russia

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