DIRECTORY 2026

Ekaterina Shcherbakova | Performance

Ekaterina Shcherbakova is a Paris-based artist working across performance, installation, and painting. Born in Novorossiisk, she has lived and worked in Paris since 2013. She studied at École du Magasin, Université Paris 8, Sorbonne, and the Marina Abramović Institute.

Her work develops at the intersection of feminism, body politics, new materialism, and radical intimacies, combining performance and material research to explore the body as a site where personal experience and political structures converge.

Working with gestures such as naming, obedience, care, and ingestion, she constructs situations where intimacy becomes a site of exposure and transformation. Rooted in embodied and preverbal knowledge, her work approaches art as a space where the personal and political become inseparable.

Her practice includes ongoing material research from bodily to mineral and organic matter, exploring matter as a carrier of memory and invisible structures.

Her work has been presented internationally at institutions and art spaces, including the Venice Biennale, Hangar Center for Artistic Research and SAFRA in Lisbon, Matca Art Space in Cluj-Napoca, Kimonos Art Center and Rally Art Space in Paphos, as well as Poush and Jakmousse in Paris.

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