Bio/CV

Ksenia Sidorova
I’m a visual artist and work mainly with photography and video art. I am based in Moscow, Russia.
Why am I doing this, why are others doing this?
As an artist, I am interested in the causes of conscious and unconscious motives of people’s behaviours in a society dominated by social and cultural attitudes and stereotypes.
An important theme in my work is the norms and the ambivalent meanings of them. Norms are one of the factors that determine a person’s behaviour and existence in society. At the same time, the norm has different meanings: value judgment, coercion, the ideal or average value. In my projects, I study social norms and the consequences of their impacts on people, the society, and the environment.
Education
2019 - present, Institute of Contemporary Art, Mocsow, Russia
2017 - 2018 “Photography On Limit”, FotoDepartament, curator Nadezhda Sheremetova, St.Petersburg, Russia.
2017 - 2018 “Art photography”, DocDocDoc School of Modern Photography, curator Feodora Kaplan, St.Petersburg, Russia.
2016 - 2017. "Postdocumentary photography", curator Michail Domozhilov, DocDocDoc School of Modern Photography, St.Petersburg, Russia.
2014 - 2016. “Photojournalism”, curator Sergey Maximishin, School of Visual Arts, Moscow, Russia.
Publications
YET Magazine (ITA), PHmuseum (UK), FK Magazine (LV), Dodho Magazine (ESP), FishEye Magazine (FRA), Colta.ru (RUS), Bird In Flight (UKR), Russian Reporter Magazine (RUS), Takie Dela (RUS), Lenta.ru (RUS), Russia Beyond The Headlines Magazine, Republic.ru (RUS).
Contests and group exhibitions
2020 - "Homo Communicans. 20’20", a special project the VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (Simplex), MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
2019 - Main exhibition of Batumi PhotoDays (I hate you too), Batumi, Georgia
2018 - Winner of the Young Photography competition (Cockroaches), Moscow, Russia
2018 - Shortlist of Self Publish Riga 2018 (Simplex), Riga, Latvia
2018 - Shortlist of PHOTOBOOKFEST 2018 (Simplex), Moscow, Russia
2018 - Winner of Krakow Photomonth ShowOFF 2018 (Cockroaches), Krakow, Poland
2018 - Shortlist of Kassel Dummy Award 2018 (Simplex), Kassel, Germany