YELENA POPOVA
Within the Artists-in-Residence Program, CCA is delighted to host the artist Yelena Popova. Born in 1978 in Urals, Russia, Popova studied Set Design and Construction at the Moscow Art Theatre School before graduating from MA Painting at the Royal College of Art in London in 2009. In her works, she primarily focuses upon matter and materiality, using a wide variety of media to open up discourses to her audience. She creates discussions based upon the systematic relationship between objects in Industrial and Capitalist cultures. Yelena currently lives and works in Nottingham and will be staying in Studio Verde during October 2022.
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2022 Made Ground, Cample Line, Thornhill, Scotland
2021 Showing Now, Touring Later, The Art House, Worcester University, UK
2020 Landscapes of Power, Philipp von Rosen, Cologne, Germany
2018 Her Name is Prometheus, Letranger, London. UK
2017 This Certifies That, Philipp von Rosen, Cologne, Germany
2016 After Image, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
2015 Unsensed, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle (curated by Madeleine Kennedy), UK
2014 A World to Gain, Figge von Rosen Gallery, Cologne, Germany
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2022 Made in X, group show curated by Joachim Naudts, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwrp, Belgium
2021 Ural Industrial Biennial, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2020 Heavy Duty paper, Division of Labour, Wocester, UK
We are here, Female Artists in Cambridge Colleges, Heong Gallery, Cambridge, UK
2019 Parade, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City curated By Kris Day, UK
2018 Perpetual Uncertainty, group show curated by Ele Carpenter, Malmo Konst Museum, Sweden
2017 Blue. Seventeen (Grotova, Neelova, Popova), Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016 EchtZEIT, The Art of Slowliness, group show, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
2015 Dispaly Show, Temple Bar Callery, Dublin and Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK