Ekaterina Andrianova
Ekaterina Andrianova explores cultural memory through paintings of porcelain and architecture, using traditional materials to preserve the character of everyday objects.
Born in Leninsk-Kuznetsky in Russia’s Kemerovo region in 1984, she studied painting at Kemerovo Art School from 2001 to 2006. She continued her training at the Stieglitz and Repin academies from 2007 to 2009, alongside restoration studies in Tatyana Kulichenko’s studio.
Her knowledge of gilding, furniture restoration and decorative plasterwork informs a practice rooted in medieval painting techniques. Working with tempera and levkas, a traditional gesso ground, she uses transparency and distorted or reverse perspective to give familiar objects a heightened presence.
Porcelain vessels and windows become portraits of disappearing histories: traces of the people, rituals and eras that shaped them. Her exhibition history includes The Feast of Being at RuArts Gallery in Moscow in 2012 and Garden & Archive at MasterWorks Gallery in Budapest in 2025.
“My works refer to medieval painting practices: levkas-coated panels, tempera and the transparency of frescoes. Distorted and reverse perspective emphasize the significance of the objects depicted. Porcelain from our collection takes on an almost ritual importance: these are objects to use, to slow down with and, above all, to admire.”
Selected Exhibitions
2025 — Garden & Archive, MasterWorks Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2022 — On the Ruins of an Empire, Nepokorennye Studio
2021 — Powder, Go Away, Nepokorennye Studio
2021 — This Is Our Country Grandmother, Sevkabel, St. Petersburg
2020 — Hungarian Gothic, Hungary
2018 — There Are More of Us, Hungary
2010 — Attraction, Nepokorennye Gallery, Novosibirsk
“‘I look at them, they look at me’ is an archive of a moment: a record of unstable reality, the fragility of existence and a desire to preserve cultural layers. Windows look back at us through the delicate lace of their frames, fragments of a disappearing history. Unexpected spots and drops of colour interrupt the image; insects gather, and ants inhabit the levkas surface.
For me, architecture and tableware are inseparable. Both bear the imprint of an era that will never return. We must know this history, care for its objects and pass them to the next generation. My task is to portray them.”
Harvest 65
Ekaterina Andriyanova
2025
Mixed Media, Gesso, Acrylic on Wood, 50 × 80 cm