Ekaterina Perfilieva is an artist whose work explores themes of emptiness, sterility, and social alienation. Her interests lie in life across post-Soviet territories, decaying and deserted spaces, and a sense of loss and displacement from home. She also engages with themes of social alienation, the loss of true intimacy in the modern relationships, and the processes of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
Ekaterina works with mixed media, including documentary and post-documentary photography, installation, video, personal archives, and graphic design. She was born in Berezniki, Perm Region, Russia in 1988. Сurrently lives and works in Ubud, Indonesia.
Education
2021–2022 — Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Moscow
2021 — Workshop by Danila Tkachenko, “Photon” Festival, Kaliningrad
2020–2022 — Polezreniye School, Moscow
2018–2019 — Photographic Academy “Fotografika, ” Documentary Photography, Saint-Petersburg
2014–2016 — British Higher School of Art and Design, Graphic Design, Moscow
2005–2011 — National Research University Higher School of Economics, Master’s Degree in Sociology, Moscow
Exhibitions
2022 — Group Exhibition Other Times, Peresvetov Gallery, Moscow
2020 — Group Exhibition Equalism, White Room Gallery, Moscow
2019 — Group Exhibition Immersion, Fotografika, St. Petersburg
2019 — Group Exhibition Alone, Fotografika, St. Petersburg
Publications
2025 — F-Stop magazine Inhabit
2025 — Float magazine Facade
2025 — METAL magazine Separating Reality from Propaganda
2025 — BadtotheBone Nocturnal Animals
2022 — Republic Behind the facades of Tarusa: Where is the line between real life and imposed propaganda images?
2020 — BirdinFlight Speak Out: How to Turn Psychotherapy into an Art Project
2020 — Zapovednik.ru Religion as Linux: what you want, you can create
2019 — Lenta.ru Since childhood I felt the presence of another
2019 — Lensculture New Visions — CORTONA ON THE MOVE
Artist Residencies
2019 — Documentary Film Residency by Marina Razbezhkina, Center for Contemporary Culture “Smena”, Sviyazhsk, Tatarstan