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Elektra KB | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Alma mater | School of Visual Arts Hunter College |
| Website |
elektrakb |
Elektra KB are a Colombian multidisciplinary artist of Ukrainian origin that live and work between New York and Berlin. [1] [2] They are an activist for reproductive rights, the rights of sexual minorities, and people with disabilities. [3]
Their work addresses illness and physical impairment, and explores topics such as gender, migration, transculturalism, bodily oppression and abuse of power. Usually through highly symbolic visual representations of politically tense scenes framed in a utopic-dystopic mythological realm. [4] [5]
Education and early years
Born in Soviet-era Odessa to a Russian mother and a Colombian father, both of them doctors, Elektra arrived in Boyacá (Colombia) at the age of two. [6] There, KB were raised within the grounds of the Santa Marta hospital in Samacá, region of Boyacá, where they witnessed the escalation of conflict and violent events of the 2012 national agrarian strike. [7]
"Some of us grew up in a perpetual civil war, a dystopia. In this civil war, violence never ceases—even though a minority sequestered away remains immune to its effects. The war transforms but endures. The war we must not speak of, and which we must pretend doesn't even exist, claims the lives of many innocent people who differ or dissent. This renders life disposable and makes hunger and displacement the norm. Living in this dystopian world made me discover that there were many worlds." [8]
The need for a "safe space" led Elektra to invent the republic of Gaia when they were a child, an allegorical feminist nation-state that will become central to the artist's mythology. [9]
Elektra KB studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York (SVA), where they earned their B.F.A. [10] After that, they received an MFA from Hunter College, NY. In 2015, they received a scholarship from the DAAD to study at the Berlin University of the Arts with the artist Hito Steyerl.
Artistic career
Throughout their career, KB has used a broad array of media such as tapestry and embroidery, photography, collage, video, multimedia, installation, and performance art to portray utopian-dystopian scenes from their imagined "Theocratic Republic of Gaia". [11]
In Gaia, media and consumerism have become strong forms of doctrine, and the government has been elevated to a god-like state. [12] KB's conceptually driven work brings to realization events from this figurative world of opposing forces, where citizenry has been brainwashed by a deceitful regime that exists under the attack of a women's rebel army (The Cathara Insurgent Women). [13]
Elektra KB's art is of a performative nature and follows the thread of post-colonial discourse. [14] The creator plays heavily with symbolism to utter political commentary and explore stereotypes [12], using iconographic cues from both the aesthetics of the Gaian state and those oppressed by it. [9]
Always at the intersection between real personal and collective experiences [15], and imagination [16], Elektra KB's projects entail research of migrant women minorities and diasporas, encompassing individuals with disabilities and the LGBTIQ+ community. [17] [18]
A concern with the "human capacity for barbarity" is also central to KB's art, as well as the perception of the woman’s body as a prison, arriving at alternatives for its liberation through rebellion and radical politics. [19] [20]
KB's pieces possess a dual existence: certain of their fabric creations and banners, commonly referred to as 'Protest Signs', are exhibited in museums, while also being carried in public demonstrations (e.g. during the anti-government protests in Colombia in the spring of 2021). [18]
Exhibitions
- 2023: Virosis, MAMBO, Bogotá, Colombia
- 2023: Think Tank: REPRODUCTIVE AGENTS, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina (MADRE), Naples, Italia
- 2023: On Violence, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
- 2021: ‘Who Will Write The History of Tears, Artists on Women’s rights’, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
- 2022: Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, Canada
- 2021: ‘Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 years after Stonewall’, Center for Creativity and the Arts, Fresno State, California
- 2021: ‘Living in America’ Curated by Assembly Room, International Print Center, New York, NY
- 2021: ‘When The Body Becomes Manifesto’, Boan 1942 Artspace, Seoul, Korea
- 2020: ‘Catheckpoint.digital’, Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, Canada
- 2020: ‘Now WTF’, Silicon Valet, U.S. Virtual
- 2020: ‘Currents: An Overwhelming Response’, Curated by Carmen Hermo, A.I.R Gallery, New York, NY
- 2020: ‘Abortion is Normal’ part I, Eva Presenhuber Gallery, New York, NY
- 2020: ‘Abortion is Normal’ part II, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY
- 2019: ‘Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 years after Stonewall’, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
- 2019: ‘The Politics of Healing: Destroying Silence’, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY
- 2019: ‘Territorio Autonomo Cathara y Ciudadan a Global’, Timebag Nutibara, Medellin, Colombia
- 2018: ‘Power is Abuse’, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY
- 2018: ‘Radical Women Remix’, a selection of video art by Latinx women from 1960-2018, organized by Brooklyn Museum, curated by Carmen Hermo, at New LatinWave, New York, NY
- 2018: ‘Antisistémicas: Practicas Art sticas desde Otras Fronteras’, Artecamara, Artbo, Bogotá, Colombia
- 2017: ‘Un Regard Sur Le Monde Elektra KB, Gilbert & George, Guerilla Girls et Swoon’, Fondation Art Contemporain Salomon, Annecy, France
- 2017: ‘Screen Present Tense’, Croatian Association of Artists Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
- 2017: ‘Alchemy of the Image’, Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey
- 2017: ‘Faketopia’, TAV Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2017: ‘Bodies of Water: Body as a Prison/Prison as a Body’, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY
- 2016: ‘The Accidental Pursuit of the Stateless II’, Gaia Gallery, Istanbul* Turkey
- 2016: ‘The Accidental Pursuit of the Stateless’, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
- 2016: ‘Geographically Indeterminate Fantasies: The Animated GIF as Place’, TAV Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2016: ‘Now We Take Manhattan’, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY
- 2016: Contemporary Istanbul, Gaia Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
- 2015: ‘Castle’, Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), China
- 2015: ‘Stories from the End’, UP Gallery, Berlin
- 2013: ‘There are Women at the Gates Seeking a New World’, BravinLee Programs (Project room), New York, NY
- 2013: ‘The Cathara Insurgent Women Vs The Theocratic Republic of Gaia’, Beings, (Project room), Sargen t’s Daughters, New York, NY
References
- ^ Pautassi, María Alejandra (September 22, 2017). "Una búsqueda accidental". Arcadia. pp. 46–47.
- ^ Szücs, Teri (9 July 2023). "The feminist curse". Revizor.
- ^ "Who will write the history of tears. Artists on women's rights". Artishock. Revista de arte contemporáneo. 19 December 2021.
- ^ "Think Tank: Reproductive agents". Museo Madre Napoli. February 2023.
- ^ "MATERIAL NATION — Crossing Into Uncertainty". Urania Berlin.
- ^ "Tres proyectos para entender el arte beligerante de Elektra KB". CARTEL URBANO. February 21, 2017.
- ^ Nathan, Emily (April 26, 2014). "The Stitched, Collaged and Chillingly Violent Female Warriors of Artist Elektra KB". ARTnews.
-
^
"Hay mundos". Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (in Spanish). 2020-11-04. Archived from the original on 2022-03-02. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link) - ^ a b Farley, Michael Anthony (17 September 2015). "On Militant Otherness: Can We Riot Now? XOXO". Artfcity.
- ^ Nathan, Emily (April 26, 2014). "The Stitched, Collaged and Chillingly Violent Female Warriors of Artist Elektra KB".
- ^ "Artist – Elektra KB". Moving image. 2023.
- ^ a b Riechers, Angela (30 September 2012). "What's the Stitch?". Visual arts journal. pp. 39–71.
- ^ Krafcik, Hannah (June 15, 2013). "Interview: Elektra KB". ART(inter) New York.
- ^ "Elektra KB, Deconstructing Borders: The Flux Dissent". Aetsy. 2017.
- ^ "Elektra KB". Gaia. 15 February 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ^ "Elektra KB". QAFonline. June 8, 2020.
- ^ "My Body is the House That We Live In - Curated by Ezra Benus".
- ^ a b "Who Will Write the History of Tears – Exhibition in the Museum of Moder Art in Warsaw". historielez.artmuseum.pl.
- ^ Pauly, Alexandra (April 4, 2018). "THE ARTIST'S GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY – 6 FEMALE ARTISTS SHARE THEIR FAVORITE SPOTS". Untitled Magazine.
- ^ Hazard, Elisabeth. "Exhibition Review. There are Women at the Gates Seeking a New World". kolaj. pp. 34–35. ISSN 1927-6893.
External links
- Mccarthy, Anna (2016). The Revolutions of Elektra KB In book: The Accidental Pursuit of the Stateless, II (pp.np)Publisher: Gaia Gallery, Istanbul
Category:Contemporary artists Category:Colombian artists
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read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a
neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of
independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's
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notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies. | |
- Comment: See
WP:SIGCOV.
Vanderwaalforces (
talk) 10:30, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
- Comment: Reads like an artists' statement or other promotional work. Also, some aspects seem
WP:UNDUE – is the claim that she is an immigrant right in the first sentence due?
Edward-Woodrow :) [
talk 21:58, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
Elektra KB | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Alma mater | School of Visual Arts Hunter College |
| Website |
elektrakb |
Elektra KB are a Colombian multidisciplinary artist of Ukrainian origin that live and work between New York and Berlin. [1] [2] They are an activist for reproductive rights, the rights of sexual minorities, and people with disabilities. [3]
Their work addresses illness and physical impairment, and explores topics such as gender, migration, transculturalism, bodily oppression and abuse of power. Usually through highly symbolic visual representations of politically tense scenes framed in a utopic-dystopic mythological realm. [4] [5]
Education and early years
Born in Soviet-era Odessa to a Russian mother and a Colombian father, both of them doctors, Elektra arrived in Boyacá (Colombia) at the age of two. [6] There, KB were raised within the grounds of the Santa Marta hospital in Samacá, region of Boyacá, where they witnessed the escalation of conflict and violent events of the 2012 national agrarian strike. [7]
"Some of us grew up in a perpetual civil war, a dystopia. In this civil war, violence never ceases—even though a minority sequestered away remains immune to its effects. The war transforms but endures. The war we must not speak of, and which we must pretend doesn't even exist, claims the lives of many innocent people who differ or dissent. This renders life disposable and makes hunger and displacement the norm. Living in this dystopian world made me discover that there were many worlds." [8]
The need for a "safe space" led Elektra to invent the republic of Gaia when they were a child, an allegorical feminist nation-state that will become central to the artist's mythology. [9]
Elektra KB studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York (SVA), where they earned their B.F.A. [10] After that, they received an MFA from Hunter College, NY. In 2015, they received a scholarship from the DAAD to study at the Berlin University of the Arts with the artist Hito Steyerl.
Artistic career
Throughout their career, KB has used a broad array of media such as tapestry and embroidery, photography, collage, video, multimedia, installation, and performance art to portray utopian-dystopian scenes from their imagined "Theocratic Republic of Gaia". [11]
In Gaia, media and consumerism have become strong forms of doctrine, and the government has been elevated to a god-like state. [12] KB's conceptually driven work brings to realization events from this figurative world of opposing forces, where citizenry has been brainwashed by a deceitful regime that exists under the attack of a women's rebel army (The Cathara Insurgent Women). [13]
Elektra KB's art is of a performative nature and follows the thread of post-colonial discourse. [14] The creator plays heavily with symbolism to utter political commentary and explore stereotypes [12], using iconographic cues from both the aesthetics of the Gaian state and those oppressed by it. [9]
Always at the intersection between real personal and collective experiences [15], and imagination [16], Elektra KB's projects entail research of migrant women minorities and diasporas, encompassing individuals with disabilities and the LGBTIQ+ community. [17] [18]
A concern with the "human capacity for barbarity" is also central to KB's art, as well as the perception of the woman’s body as a prison, arriving at alternatives for its liberation through rebellion and radical politics. [19] [20]
KB's pieces possess a dual existence: certain of their fabric creations and banners, commonly referred to as 'Protest Signs', are exhibited in museums, while also being carried in public demonstrations (e.g. during the anti-government protests in Colombia in the spring of 2021). [18]
Exhibitions
- 2023: Virosis, MAMBO, Bogotá, Colombia
- 2023: Think Tank: REPRODUCTIVE AGENTS, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina (MADRE), Naples, Italia
- 2023: On Violence, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
- 2021: ‘Who Will Write The History of Tears, Artists on Women’s rights’, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
- 2022: Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, Canada
- 2021: ‘Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 years after Stonewall’, Center for Creativity and the Arts, Fresno State, California
- 2021: ‘Living in America’ Curated by Assembly Room, International Print Center, New York, NY
- 2021: ‘When The Body Becomes Manifesto’, Boan 1942 Artspace, Seoul, Korea
- 2020: ‘Catheckpoint.digital’, Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, Canada
- 2020: ‘Now WTF’, Silicon Valet, U.S. Virtual
- 2020: ‘Currents: An Overwhelming Response’, Curated by Carmen Hermo, A.I.R Gallery, New York, NY
- 2020: ‘Abortion is Normal’ part I, Eva Presenhuber Gallery, New York, NY
- 2020: ‘Abortion is Normal’ part II, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY
- 2019: ‘Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 years after Stonewall’, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
- 2019: ‘The Politics of Healing: Destroying Silence’, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY
- 2019: ‘Territorio Autonomo Cathara y Ciudadan a Global’, Timebag Nutibara, Medellin, Colombia
- 2018: ‘Power is Abuse’, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY
- 2018: ‘Radical Women Remix’, a selection of video art by Latinx women from 1960-2018, organized by Brooklyn Museum, curated by Carmen Hermo, at New LatinWave, New York, NY
- 2018: ‘Antisistémicas: Practicas Art sticas desde Otras Fronteras’, Artecamara, Artbo, Bogotá, Colombia
- 2017: ‘Un Regard Sur Le Monde Elektra KB, Gilbert & George, Guerilla Girls et Swoon’, Fondation Art Contemporain Salomon, Annecy, France
- 2017: ‘Screen Present Tense’, Croatian Association of Artists Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
- 2017: ‘Alchemy of the Image’, Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey
- 2017: ‘Faketopia’, TAV Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2017: ‘Bodies of Water: Body as a Prison/Prison as a Body’, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY
- 2016: ‘The Accidental Pursuit of the Stateless II’, Gaia Gallery, Istanbul* Turkey
- 2016: ‘The Accidental Pursuit of the Stateless’, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
- 2016: ‘Geographically Indeterminate Fantasies: The Animated GIF as Place’, TAV Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2016: ‘Now We Take Manhattan’, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY
- 2016: Contemporary Istanbul, Gaia Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
- 2015: ‘Castle’, Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), China
- 2015: ‘Stories from the End’, UP Gallery, Berlin
- 2013: ‘There are Women at the Gates Seeking a New World’, BravinLee Programs (Project room), New York, NY
- 2013: ‘The Cathara Insurgent Women Vs The Theocratic Republic of Gaia’, Beings, (Project room), Sargen t’s Daughters, New York, NY
References
- ^ Pautassi, María Alejandra (September 22, 2017). "Una búsqueda accidental". Arcadia. pp. 46–47.
- ^ Szücs, Teri (9 July 2023). "The feminist curse". Revizor.
- ^ "Who will write the history of tears. Artists on women's rights". Artishock. Revista de arte contemporáneo. 19 December 2021.
- ^ "Think Tank: Reproductive agents". Museo Madre Napoli. February 2023.
- ^ "MATERIAL NATION — Crossing Into Uncertainty". Urania Berlin.
- ^ "Tres proyectos para entender el arte beligerante de Elektra KB". CARTEL URBANO. February 21, 2017.
- ^ Nathan, Emily (April 26, 2014). "The Stitched, Collaged and Chillingly Violent Female Warriors of Artist Elektra KB". ARTnews.
-
^
"Hay mundos". Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (in Spanish). 2020-11-04. Archived from the original on 2022-03-02. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link) - ^ a b Farley, Michael Anthony (17 September 2015). "On Militant Otherness: Can We Riot Now? XOXO". Artfcity.
- ^ Nathan, Emily (April 26, 2014). "The Stitched, Collaged and Chillingly Violent Female Warriors of Artist Elektra KB".
- ^ "Artist – Elektra KB". Moving image. 2023.
- ^ a b Riechers, Angela (30 September 2012). "What's the Stitch?". Visual arts journal. pp. 39–71.
- ^ Krafcik, Hannah (June 15, 2013). "Interview: Elektra KB". ART(inter) New York.
- ^ "Elektra KB, Deconstructing Borders: The Flux Dissent". Aetsy. 2017.
- ^ "Elektra KB". Gaia. 15 February 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ^ "Elektra KB". QAFonline. June 8, 2020.
- ^ "My Body is the House That We Live In - Curated by Ezra Benus".
- ^ a b "Who Will Write the History of Tears – Exhibition in the Museum of Moder Art in Warsaw". historielez.artmuseum.pl.
- ^ Pauly, Alexandra (April 4, 2018). "THE ARTIST'S GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY – 6 FEMALE ARTISTS SHARE THEIR FAVORITE SPOTS". Untitled Magazine.
- ^ Hazard, Elisabeth. "Exhibition Review. There are Women at the Gates Seeking a New World". kolaj. pp. 34–35. ISSN 1927-6893.
External links
- Mccarthy, Anna (2016). The Revolutions of Elektra KB In book: The Accidental Pursuit of the Stateless, II (pp.np)Publisher: Gaia Gallery, Istanbul
Category:Contemporary artists Category:Colombian artists