Elena Kovylina
- b. 1971 Moscow, USSR
- Solo Exhibitions
- 2007
- Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
- 2006
- Love after the cold war, American Cultural Center, Moscow
- 2005
- Boxing, XL-Projects, Moscow
- Live concert, XL-Projects, Moscow
- 2004
- Theater of the homeless youth, DOC Theater, Moscow
- Chapel, Kuenstlerhaus Boswil, CH
- 2003
- Red Shelter, Gallery K&S;, Berli
- Attacking Poetry, Paula Boettcher Gallery, Berlin
- Theater of the homeless youth, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin
- 2002
- Red Shelter, Museum of the Revolution History, St. Petersburg
- 2001
- Oppositions, Escape Gallery, Moscow
- Heroines from the East, Guelman Gallery, Moscow
- 1999
- Visitng a fairy tale, Cyberfemin club, Gallery-21, St. Petersburg
- Solo show, Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art
- Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2007
- Art Athens Fair, Athens, Greece
- Love after the cold war, video art fair LOOP, Play Gallery, Barselona
- In the Presence of the Body, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,Troy, NY,USA
- Love after the cold war, Exhibition Black Quadrate, ZDH, 2nd Moscow Biennale
- Sots Art. Political Art in Russia and China, National Tretjakov gallery, Moscow
- Petroliana, Contemporary Art Museum, 2nd Moscow Biennale
- By Interaction, Lenin Museum, 2nd Moscow Biennale
- Partners in Crime, Gallery MC, NY
- Pari Nadimi gallery, ARCO Madrid
- 2006
- Knoll Gallery, Budapest
- Bunker No Bunker, Ramis Barquet Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
- Pari Nadimi gallery, ARTISSIMA, Turin
- Festival RIAP 2006, Quebec, Canada
- Biennale of Sydney 2006, Australia
- Wild Gift, performance festival, Limehouse Town Hall, London
- Russia Redux #2, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, City University of New York
- Love after the cold war, MAK Schindler House for Art and Architecture LA, USA
- Something about Power, Russian Video Art Piano Nobile, Geneva
- The Medal, "Transit Art Spase", Stavanger, Norway
- 2005
- Boxing, "We are the artist" K-3 Project space, Zurich
- Festival Europalia Russia, Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Gent, Belgium
- Waltz at Miami, Gallery Schroeder Romeo/NY, NADA Art Fair, Miami Beach
- Russia Redux, Gallery Schroeder Romero, NY
- 2nd Praguebiennale, Prague
- Red Shelter, "The politics of Care", Whitney Museum, NY
- “Play boy show", Art Moscow 2005
- Karin Sachs Gallery, Art Moscow fair
- Karin Sachs Gallery, Art Vienna fair
- Legal Prostitution in Russia, Museum of Modern Art, 1st Moscow Biennale
- The Medal, "No comment", 1st Moscow Biennale
- 2004
- Waltz, "The seven sins", Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
- Palace, Palazzo Pfafava, Venice
- Waltz, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
- Bahnhof Belorusskij, IFA Gallery, Stuttgart
- Moral inspection, International Performing Art Festival, Salzburg
- Hallo, NY! Apex Art Gallery, NY
- Tea ceremony, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
- 2003
- Kidnapping of an assistant, Art without Crime, Hebbel Theater, Berlin
- Belorusskij Train Station, IFA Gallery, Berlin
- The Medal, Ministry of the Foreign Affairs, Berlin
- Domophone, 1st Praguebiennale, Prague
- Do it yourself, Contemporary Art Museum, Belgrade
- 2002
- Waltz, Foundation Cartier, Paris
- Committee Red Shelter, Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
- Pincode, Ujazdowsky Castle, Warsaw
- Where their parents are? Paula Boettcher Gallery, Art Forum Berlin
- Neighbors, Berliner Festwochen, Berlin
- Do it yourself, K-4 Gallery, Ljubljana
- Shooting gallery, “Deconstruction”, Cetinie Biennale, Montenegro
- Shooting gallery, "Davaj! Russian Art now", MAK, Vienna
- Gosstop, "Female sight", National Tretjakow Gallery, Moscow
- Davaj! Russian Art now", Postfuhramt, Berlin
- Check Point Charlie, Check Point Charlie, Berlin
- 2001
- RA Gallery, Kiev
- Waltz, Volker und Freude Galerie, Berlin
- Love. Opposition. Cool, Guardini Foundation, Berlin
- Elections of the President of the Universe, Performance Festival, Schloss Broellin, Germany
- Extreme right–left, UdK Berlin, Class of the prof. Rebecca Horn
- The Babylon Tower, “Line”, Samara Art Museum, RUS
- 2000
- A moment of glory, "Et cetera" theater, Moscow
- Rescue my soul, "Sea", International Forum of the Modern Art, Sotchi RUS
- Kidnapping of Europe, "Paradise Zero", Central Cathedral, Uppsala, Sweden
- Heroines from the East, Museum de la Ville, Paris
- News, International Performance Festival, Bolshoi Manege, St. Petersburg
- Information, International festival of modern arts, Chagall Museum, Vitebsk, Belarus
- Do it yourself! Zverev Center of the Comtemporary Art, Moscow
- Absence of a Hero, A-3 Gallery, Moscow
- 1999
- The Babylon Tower, Theater Campanor, Sontjago-de-Kampastella
- The Babylon Tower, Diaspora Art festival, Ovjedo, Spain
- Medusas, Feminist summer school, Crimea, Foros
- To the future, Kunsthalle Steyer, Austria
- Green Apples, Yerevan, Armenia
- Love is a male discourse, Festival of the Modern Art, Minsk, Belarus
- To the future, "The last generation", Spider and Mouse Gallery, Moscow
- 1998
- On the other side… Emergency exit, festival of performance art, St. Petersburg
- Ruble rate, Central bank Russia, Moscow
- Information, International festival of modern arts, Chagall Museum, Vitebsk, Belarus
- 1997
- Video-paintings, Video unten Grund, Zurich
- Self-portrait, Rote Fabrik, Zurich
- Grants/Residencies
- 2002
- Academy Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, DE
- 2004
- Kuenstler Haus Boswil, CH
- Kuenstler Haus Schoeppingen, DE
- 2005
- MAK Schindler House Art and Architecture Residence Program, LA, USA
- 2006
- Kuenstler Haus Schlieren, Zurich, CH
- 2007
- Centre International des Recollets, Paris
- Education
- 1988-1991
- Art School
- 1993-1995
- Art Academy Moscow
- 1996-1998
- F+F Art and Media School Zurich, CH
- 1998-1999
- Center of Contemporary Art Moscow
- 2001-2003
- UdK Berlin, Class of Prof. Rebecca Horn, Diploma multi-media
