Natalia Ershova
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Natalia Ershova was born in 1988. I graduated the Russian State Humanitarian University and majored in journalism. I studied in the personal school of Elena Sukhoveeva and Viktor Khmel in 2016-2017. I studied at DocDocDoc 2019-2020. I studied at ICA 2020-2022. I studied at VII Academy 2024.
I now live in Belgrade in Serbia.
Group exhibits:
2025
12/03/2025 Women in Photography
https://www.glasgowgalleryofphotography.com/exhibition2025/women-in-photography
2024
12/12/2024 Festival “Frequencies”, exhibition “Performative Matter” (Moscow, Russia) project “The Fifth Quarter”;
08/11/2024 “ECHOS exhibition” in the UK in Suffolk (Fox Yard Gallery), ‘Eternal’ photo series;
20/09 - 03/11/2024 “Encontros da Imagem Festival”, the library “Biblioteca L úcio Craveiro da Silva”, Braga (Portugal), PhotoBook “The Fifth Quarter”;
11/07/2024 “Neuroconflict Festival”, gallery “Superlative”, Bali (Indonesia), project “The Fifth Quarter”;
08/04 – 14/04/2024 festival "PlayDigitalArt" (Ekaterinburg, Russia) project “The Fifth Quarter”;
22/03/2024 festival "FORMAT 24" at the international center for contemporary art and cinema QUAD (Leicester, England), project “The Fifth Quarter”;
2023
02/12/2023 Gallery ‘Here’ science art festival ‘Frequencies 4.0, Enchanted Quark’, Moscow (Russia), project "The Retrotopia";
17/10/2023 Festival “FotON” Kaliningrad (Russia) photo series ‘The Retrotopia’;
29/09/2023 triennale ‘GEN’ in the space of Arteria on Nimloft'e, Ivanovo (Russia) series ‘The Fifth Quarter’;
7/09/2023 exhibition ‘Forms of Dialogue’ MMoMA Ermolaevsky pereulok 17, Moscow (Russia), series ‘The Fifth Quarter’;
17/09/2023 ‘From afar’ festival, ‘Signal’ space, Kaliningrad (Russia), photo book ‘The Fifth Quarter’;
9/08-10/10/2023 exhibition ‘Common Future’ Shabolovka Gallery, Moscow (Russia), series ‘The Fifth Quarter’;
2023 from 5.08 to 6.08 Zin-Zin festival in Khabarovsk (Russia) Photobook ‘The Fifth Quarter’;
2023 from 1.07 to 30.07 festival ‘Anthropland’ at the stadium Dinamo in Nizhny Novogorod (Russia), series ‘The Fifth Quarter’;
6/07 – 31/07/2023 ‘Young Photography of Russia’, Kaluga (Russia),
‘The Retrotopia’;
24/07 – 25/07/2023 ‘Knitwear ZINE Fest’ space ‘Knitwear’ in Sergiev Posad (Russia) Photobook ‘The Fifth Quarter’ series;
28/04/2023 festival "Zherdyola". Gallery “Rostov”. Rostov (Russia).
Photobook "The Fifth Quarter";
20/04/2023 exhibition "Sky". Gallery Si19, Moscow (Russia).
project "The Retrotopia";
19/04/2023 "In the language of rules and exceptions. Science and Art". Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center. Moscow, Russia). Project "The Fifth Quarter";
14/04 -16/04/2023 "PlayDigitalArt festival", Yekaterinburg (Russia).
Project "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
7/04/2023 "ArtWeekend", Cube.Moscow gallery, Moscow (Russia).
Project "The Journey to the Edge of the Room;
2022
24/11/2022 Cultural Projects Foundation "Thursday" Moscow (Russia).
Project "The Wind Rises";
15/06/2022 exhibition "Adaptants", Center for Creative Industries "Fabrika",
Hall "Olivier", Moscow (Russia). Project "The Fifth Quarter";
2021
31/08/2021 "Bartur Photo Award" Berlin (Germany).
Project "Journey to the edge of the room";
22/08/2021 “Reclaim Award” Cologne (Germany).
Project "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
07/07/2021 "Young Photographers of Russia" Kaluga (Russia)
Project "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
28/08/2021 Photography Day - Corona Edition Preus Museum (Norway)
Project "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
18/06/2021 Winzavod OPEN "Time of Things" Winzavod, Moscow (Russia) project: "The Fifth Quarter";
04/06 – 06/06/2021 "Visibility" Sevkabel Port of St. Petersburg (Russia) project: "The Fifth quarter";
12/04/2021 "Code-named Luna" Printing shop. Moscow (Russia)
Project "The Retrotopia";
22/02/2021 DUST US “The Burial Orbit”;
http://curatorialstudies.ru/dust-us-ex (Russia);
2021 year. VI Exhibition Cazadores de Imágenes https://peopleartfactory.com/g/exposicion_cazadores_de_imagenes_VI ;
2020
7/11/2020 “LagosPhoto20 Rapid Response Restitution”, Lagos (Nigeria)
Project "The Journey to the End of the Room";
03/10/2020 “Photo Fringe Festival” (Great Britain).
Project "The Journey to the End of the Room";
2020 year. Festival Della Fotografia Etica. Municipality of Codogno,
Codogno (Italy). Project "Deja vu";
26/10/2020 "New Names" Museum of Nonconformist Art, St.Petersburg, (Russia), Installation "Untitled";
12/09 – 11/10/2020 Getxophoto 03.09 - 27.09 Getcho (Spain).
Project "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
03/09/2020 KUALA LUMPUR INTERNATIONAL PHOTOAWARDS Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Project "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
07/16/2020 - 08/15/2020 "Political action in the virtual space" online exhibition in the Shaninka space in Minecraft, Moscow (Russia), Project "The Exit";
22/06/2020 – 22/07/2020 "Someone, nobody, one hundred thousand",
Moscow (Russia), Project “The Burial Orbit”;
02/20/2020 “Portraits Hellerau Photography Award 2020”, Dresden (Germany), Project "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
2019
18/08/2019 Workshop 20’19. "DYSMORPHOPHOBIA, OR WAR INSIDE YOU." Moscow (Russia). MMoMA (Moscow Museum of Modern Art).
Photoseries "The Ordinary Suspects";
14/06 – 21/07/2019 Winzavod Open festival "Communities and Spaces", Winery Large Wine Storage, Moscow (Russia). Project "GG Magazinе";
18/05/2019 ‘Will you be a witness? 2007/19’ CCI Fabrika. Moscow (Russia)
Project "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
2018
2018 year. “You have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 new messages”, CCI Fabrika, Moscow (Russia). Project "The Burial Orbit";
2018 year. Noks, Istanbul. (Turkey). Project "The Journey to the edge of the room";
2018 year. BYOpaper, Arles 2018. Arles, France.
Project "Journey to the edge of the room”;
2018 year. “Riga Photomonth festival”, Riga (Latvia). Project "Journey to the edge of the room»;
2017
2017 year. Festival Photovisa "The Strange". Krasnodar (Russia). Gallery "Typography". The project "Journey to the Edge of the Room";
2017 year. Workshop 2017” In the place where people don’t dream – from the holy geography to theempty place”. Moscow Museum of modern Art. Installation “No name”.
Awards:
2024
26/04/2024 Scholarship for outstanding figures of culture and art of Russia 2024
2023
2023 Bartur Photo Award shortlist (UK). Retrotopia Project
9/08/2023 Scholarship for outstanding figures of culture and art in Russia 2023.
2023 “Young Photography of Russia” Kaluga (Russia) - finalist.
2022
2/08/2022 the winner of the All-Russian open competition of projects in the field of scientific and technological art - Science.Technology.Art STArt in the nomination "Sleep with a robot". Project "Fifth Quarter"
2021
21/11/2021 “ND Award 2021”, Project “The Journey to the Edge of the Room” – shortlist;
25/08/2021 “Felix Schoeller Photo Award”, Project "The Journey to the Edge of the Room" – shortlist;
20/08/2021 Bartur Photo Award. Project "The Journey to the Edge of the Room" 1st place in the student category;
18/06/2021 Scholarship for outstanding figures of culture and art of Russia 2021.
11/03/2021 Nova ART longlist. Project "The Fifth Quarter"
24/02/2021 Gomma Grant shortlist. Project "The Journey to the edge of the room"
2020
04/12/2020 “Krzysztof Miller Prise”, project "The Journey to the Edge of the Room"– shortlist;
22/10/2020 «212 Photography Istanbul», project "The Journey to the Edge of the Room"– shortlist;
08/10/2020 LensCulture "Journeys 2020", project "The Journey to the Edge of the Room"– shortlist;
08/29/2020 Photo Fringe, project "The Journey to the Edge of the Room"– shortlist;
14/07/2020 KUALA LUMPUR INTERNATIONAL PHOTOAWARDS 3rd place in the category "single images" portrait of Victor from the project "Journey to the Edge of the Room";
2020 year. Competition of reportage photography named after Alexander Efremov, project "The Journey to the Edge of the Room" – shortlist;
2019
2019 year. Prix Levallois. shortlist. Project "The Journey to the Edge of the Room»;
2018
2018 year. X international youth photography contest "Young people in the XXI century 2018". 1st place in the category of young photographers at age 21 to 29. Project " Journey to the edge of the room»;
Press:
2024
31/07/2024 The Journalist magazine - ‘The Fifth Quarter’ photo series;
03/05/2024 SkillBox Media ‘The Fifth Quarter’ photo series;
13/04/2024 "Loeildelaphotographie" - ‘The Retropy’ photo series;
10/02/2024 "Loeildelaphotographie" - ‘The Fifth Quarter’ photo series;
2023
30/10/2023 Philosophical magazine ‘Stol’, photo series ‘The Fifth Quarter’;
01/09/2023 publication in the collection of articles from the annual scientific conference of the State Institute of Art History. Article about the series ‘The Fifth Quarter’;
2021
9/09/2021 Publico (Portugal) - "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
24/08/2021 The Times (UK) - "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
2/02/2021 ADFphoto - "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
2020
12/11/2020 "Slate" (France) - "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
12/10/2020 "Huck" (UK) - "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
26/09/2020 "Loeildelaphotographie" - "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
14/08/2020 "Lifehacker" - "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
24/07/2020 "Digg" - "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
14/07/2020 "Feature shoot" - "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
25/05/2020 "Gallery Visual Culture" (Russia) – "Deja vu";
25/03/2020 “Novaya Gazeta” (Russia) - "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
2019
28/10/2019 "Society" (France) "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
4/11/2019 "Edge of Humanity Magazine" - "The Retropy";
2019 October 25 Edge of Humanity Magazine – "The Ordinary Suspect";
2/10/2019 “Bird in Flight” magazine (Ukraine) - "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
16/09/2019 Lamono magazine (Spain) # 119 The New Era- "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
24/08/2019 FotoRoom - "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
2019 "Edge of Humanity Magazine" - "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
30/05/2019 Republic - "The Ordinary suspects";
18/03/2019 REGNUM - “The Burial Orbit”;
2018
15/12/2017 Russian Reporter magazine (Russia) - "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
20/11/2017 REGNUM (Russia) - "The Journey to the Edge of the Room";
Press articles as an expert
2025
5/03/2025 SkillBox Media, the article ‘Social media for the photographer: how to use it correctly’;
13/02/2025 SkillBox Media, the article ‘Portfolio for photographer: instructions’;
20/01/2025 online magazine ‘Paradigm of Education’, interview ‘Natalia Ershova: Photography is a conversation with the world’;
2024
21/11/2024 SkillBox Media, the article “Photo contests: how and why to enter them”;
21/11/2024 SkillBox Media, the article “How to write a CV correctly”;
03/10/2024 SkillBox Media, the article “Photo project: how and why to plan it”;
23/07/2024 SkillBox Media, the article ‘How to finish a photo project’;
20/06/2024 Art Agent magazine, interview about “the Fifth Quarter” project;
Artist-talks
2024
23/11/2024 Master class for the third year of the Faculty of History, Department of Cinema and Contemporary Art at the Russian State Institute for the Humanities
2023
6/10/2023 Interpretation artist for the exhibition programme, MMoMA Ermolaevsky pereulok 17, Moscow (Russia)