Fine Art nominee

In Moscow, at the Museum of Human there is such a modern device that can recognize some information about the face which located in front of it. For example age, sex, emotions. How much this person is afraid now or how much he or she confused or upset or happy. We live in an era of smart phones, when soon just using some applications we can guess who is it in front of us. But still the most difficult thing is to understand and identify ourselves.

Early on Katerina Belkina knew about her exceptional talent to see the world through different eyes. Born in Samara in the southeast of European Russia, she was brought up in an creative atmosphere by her mother, a visual artist. Her education as painter at the Art Academy and from 2000 at the school for Photography of Michael Musorin in Samara gave her the tools to visualize her ideas. Exhibitions of her sublime, mystic self-portraits ensued in Moscow and Paris. In 2007 Katerina Belkina was nominated for the prestigious Kandinsky Prize (comparable to the British Turner Prize) in Moscow. Recently she got the Hasselblad Masters Prize. Currently she lives and works in Werder (Havel) near Berlin.