Katja Vassilieva

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Katja Vassilieva (* 1963 in Moscow ) is a Russian - Austrian cultural manager , graphic artist and painter .

Live and act

Vassilieva studied at a Moscow art college in 1905 (in memory of 1905) and graduated in 1983 with a diploma. As a member of the youth section of the Soviet Union of Artists, she completed a three-month studio stay in the house of the Moscow Artists' Union in Tarussa as well as a World and Culture Europe tour with Soviet artists , authors and musicians .

In 1991 she took part in a painting symposium in Tau- Turgen near Alma Ata in Kazakhstan . From 1995 she worked on artistic exchange projects between Russia and Austria . In 1999 she became a member of the artists' association MAERZ . Together with Ewald Walser , she was involved in the concept and organization of the ACT 99 art-communication tour Austria - Moscow and in 2003 she was involved in organizing a symposium with Austrian artists in Alferjewo . In February 2005 she completed a studio stay in the Thomas Bernhard Archive in Gmunden and in 2007 in the guest studio Maltator in Gmünd in Carinthia . In 2010 she was a participant in the artist symposium in Schönering (Wilhering municipality) .

Vassilieva lives and works in Linz .

In a fire that broke out on March 31, 2017 in the joint studio of Ewald Walser and Katja Vassilieva in Linz, a large part of the works of the two artists stored there were destroyed.

Works

Her works are in public and private ownership in Russia, Austria, Germany , France and Mexico .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • A festival of drawing , March Gallery , Linz, 1998
  • weightless-momentous - painting , March Gallery, Linz, 1999
  • Intermezzi - Works on Paper , Mestschansky Museum, Moscow, 2004
  • Timeline - current painting by MAERZ , artist association MAERZ in the Künstlerhaus Wien , Vienna, 2011
  • Wegmarks, MAERZ 1952–2002 , Architekturforum Oberösterreich , Linz, 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. orf.at of April 2, 2017: 400 paintings burned: life's work lost ; Retrieved April 2, 2017