Kateryna Berlova

Kateryna Berlova (born in 1986) is an artist born in Dnipro who lives and works in Berlin. She studied art at Mykhailo Boichuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative Applied Arts and Design.
In 2016, she was a resident of The Royal Standard Gallery, Liverpool, UK. In her artistic practice, Berlova works with motifs of repetition and trauma, considering the latter an imprint of time or a visible trace of its presence. Her videos often capture repetitive, monotonous or obsessive actions representing failure. Starting from her own experience, she eventually goes far beyond it. Berlova often taps into methods of heightened perception, discovering the surrounding world through smell, sound or touch. She works with video, sound, painting, installation and site-specific art. Together with Ivars Grāvlejs, they have formed an artists’ union, Dirty Romantics.