Natalia Ershova

Contact Information
Website: https://nataliaershova.photographer.ru/?lang=eng
Phone: +7 915 037 2303, +381 62 945 3348
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001915985946
Location: Belgrade, Serbia

I work with documentary and conceptual photography, installations, and mockumentaries. My work touches on topics such as social research into groups that define societal problems and dystopia, describing issues with experiments on the human body. I am interested in the influence of progress, huge cities, and technological development on people's minds and their social adaptation. 
I work with themes of isolation, technology, and utopias.

Education

• 2024: VII Academy
• 2020–2022: Institute of Contemporary Art, Russia
• 2019–2020: DocDocDoc, Russia
• 2016–2017: Personal School of Elena Sukhoveeva and Viktor Khmel, Russia
• Russian State Humanitarian University: Degree in Journalism. Moscow. Russia

Exhibitions

2025

• 14 August 2025 exhibition as part of the ‘Light and Colour’ festival, Elets, Russia, Retrotopia photo series
• 14 June 2025: Bar Tur Photo Award Winning Exhibition, North Fork Arts Centre, New York, USA
  Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
• 30 May 2025: Festival BPM 2025: Photo Books, The Book Embodiment Laboratory Exhibition, KC Radionica Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
  Photobook: The Fifth Quarter
• 24 May 2025: Zherdyola Festival, Fedorov Museum-Library, Moscow, Russia
  Photobook: The Fifth Quarter
• 2 May–6 May 2025: Zin-Zin Festival, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia
  Photobook: The Fifth Quarter
• 12 March 2025: Women in Photography Project, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, UK
  Project: The Fifth Quarter

2024

• 12 December 2024: Frequencies Festival, Performative Matter Exhibition, Bogorodskoye Gallery, Moscow, Russia
  Project: The Fifth Quarter
• 8 November 2024: ECHOS Exhibition, Fox Yard Gallery, Suffolk, UK
  Photo Series: Eternal
• 20 September–3 November 2024: Encontros da Imagem Festival, Biblioteca Lúcio Craveiro da Silva, Braga, Portugal
  Photobook: The Fifth Quarter
• 11 July 2024: Neuroconflict Festival, Superlative Gallery, Bali, Indonesia
  Project: The Fifth Quarter
• 8 April–14 April 2024: PlayDigitalArt Festival, Sinara Center, Yekaterinburg, Russia
  Project: The Fifth Quarter
• 22 March 2024: FORMAT 24 Festival, QUAD International Center for Contemporary Art and Cinema, Leicester, UK
  Project: The Fifth Quarter
• 2023
• 2 December 2023: Frequencies 4.0: Enchanted Quark, Gallery “Here”, Moscow, Russia
  Project: Retrotopia
• 17 October 2023: FotON Festival, Signal Space, Kaliningrad, Russia
  Photo Series: Retrotopia
• 29 September 2023: GEN Triennale, Arteria Space on Nimloft, Ivanovo, Russia
  Photo Series: The Fifth Quarter
• 17 September 2023: From Afar Festival, Signal Space, Kaliningrad, Russia
  Photobook: The Fifth Quarter
• 9 August–10 October 2023: Common Future Exhibition, Shabolovka Gallery, Moscow, Russia
  Photo Series: The Fifth Quarter
• 5 August–6 August 2023: “Zin-Zin” Festival, Khabarovsk, Russia
  Photobook: The Fifth Quarter
• 1 July–30 July 2023: Anthropland Festival, “Dinamo” Stadium, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
  Photo Series: The Fifth Quarter
• 6 July–31 July 2023: Young Photography of Russia, Kaluga State Museum, Kaluga, Russia
  Project: Retrotopia
• 24 July–25 July 2023: Knitwear ZINE Fest, Knitwear Space, Sergiev Posad, Russia
  Photobook: The Fifth Quarter
• 28 April 2023: Zherdyola Festival, Rostov Gallery, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
  Photobook: The Fifth Quarter
• 20 April 2023: Sky Exhibition, Si19 Gallery, Moscow, Russia
  Project: Retrotopia
• 19 April 2023: In the Language of Rules and Exceptions: Science and Art, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, Russia
  Project: The Fifth Quarter
• 14 April–16 April 2023: PlayDigitalArt Festival, Yeltsin Center, Yekaterinburg, Russia
  Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
• 7 April 2023: ArtWeekend, Cube.Moscow Gallery, Moscow, Russia
  Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room

2022

• 24 November 2022: Cultural Projects Foundation “Thursday”, Moscow, Russia
  Project: The Wind Rises
• 15 June 2022: Adaptants Exhibition, Olivier Hall, Center for Creative Industries Fabrika, Moscow, Russia
  Project: The Fifth Quarter

2021

• 31 August 2021: Bartur Photo Award, Berlin, Germany
  Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
• 22 August 2021: Reclaim Award, Cologne, Germany
  Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
• 28 August 2021: Photography Day - Corona Edition, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway
  Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
• 7 July 2021: Young Photographers of Russia, Kaluga State Museum, Kaluga, Russia
  Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
• 18 June 2021: Winzavod OPEN: Time of Things, Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
  Project: The Fifth Quarter
• 4 June–6 June 2021: Visibility Exhibition, Sevkabel Port, St. Petersburg, Russia
  Project: The Fifth Quarter
• 12 April 2021: Code-named Luna, Printing Shop, Moscow, Russia
  Project: Retrotopia
• 22 February 2021: DUST US: The Burial Orbit, Online Exhibition, Russia
  Project: The Burial Orbit
• 2021: VI Exhibition Cazadores de Imágenes, Online Exhibition, People Art Factory
  Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room

2020

• 7 November 2020: LagosPhoto20 Rapid Response Restitution, Lagos, Nigeria
  Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
• 3 October 2020: Photo Fringe Festival, Online Exhibition, UK
  Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
• 26 October 2020: New Names, Museum of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg, Russia
  Installation: Untitled
• 12 September–11 October 2020: Getxophoto Festival, Getxo, Spain
  Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
• 3 September 2020: Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
• 16 July–15 August 2020: “Political Action in the Virtual Space”, Shaninka Space in Minecraft, Online, Russia
  Project: The Exit
• 22 June–22 July 2020: “Someone, Nobody, One Hundred Thousand”, Online Exhibition, Moscow, Russia
  Project: The Burial Orbit
• 20 February 2020: Portraits Hellerau Photography Award 2020, Hellerau, Dresden, Germany
  Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
• 2020: Festival Della Fotografia Etica, Municipality of Codogno, Codogno, Italy
  Project: Deja vu

2019

• 18 August 2019: Workshop 20’19: Dysmorphophobia, or War Inside You, MMoMA, Moscow, Russia
  Photo Series: The Ordinary Suspects
• 14 June–21 July 2019: Winzavod Open Festival: Communities and Spaces, Large Wine Storage, Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
  Project: GG Magazine
• 18 May 2019: Will You Be a Witness? 2007/19, CCI Fabrika, Moscow, Russia
  Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room

2018

• 2018: You Have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 New Messages, CCI Fabrika, Moscow, Russia
  Project: The Burial Orbit
• 2018: Noks, Istanbul, Turkey
  Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
• 2018: BYOpaper, Arles 2018, Arles, France
  Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
• 2018: Riga Photomonth Festival, Riga, Latvia
  Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room

2017

• 2017: Festival Photovisa: The Strange, Typography Gallery, Krasnodar, Russia
  Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
• 2017: Workshop 2017: In the Place Where People Don’t Dream – From the Holy Geography to the Empty Place, MMoMA, Moscow, Russia
  Installation: No Name
• Publications

2025

• • 9 July 2025: “The Talking Pictures”, Australia, Critical article by Alasdair Foster
    https://talking-pictures.online/2025/07/09/natalia-ershova-the-shape-of-things-to-come/

2024

• • 31 July 2024: The Journalist Magazine, Russia – The Fifth Quarter Photo Series
  • 3 May 2024: SkillBox Media, Russia – The Fifth Quarter Photo Series
  • 13 April 2024: L’Oeil de la Photographie, France – Retrotopia Photo Series
  • 10 February 2024: L’Oeil de la Photographie, France – The Fifth Quarter Photo Series

2023

• • 30 October 2023: “Stol” Philosophical Magazine, Russia – The Fifth Quarter Photo Series
  • 1 September 2023: Collection of Articles, Annual Scientific Conference of the State Institute of Art History, Russia – Article about The Fifth Quarter

2021

• • 9 September 2021: Publico, Portugal – Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 24 August 2021: The Times, UK – Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 2 February 2021: ADFphoto, International – Journey to the Edge of the Room

2020

• • 12 November 2020: Slate, France – Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 12 October 2020: Huck, UK – Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 26 September 2020: Loeildelaphotographie, France – Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 14 August 2020: Lifehacker, Russia – Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 24 July 2020: Digg, USA – Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 14 July 2020: Feature Shoot, International – Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 25 May 2020: Gallery Visual Culture, Russia – Deja vu
  • 25 March 2020: Novaya Gazeta, Russia – Journey to the Edge of the Room

2019

• • 4 November 2019: Edge of Humanity Magazine, International – Retrotopia
  • 28 October 2019: Society, France – Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 25 October 2019: Edge of Humanity Magazine, International – The Ordinary Suspects
  • 2 October 2019: Bird in Flight Magazine, Ukraine – Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 16 September 2019: Lamono Magazine #119 The New Era, Spain – Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 24 August 2019: FotoRoom, International – Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 30 May 2019: Republic, Russia – The Ordinary Suspects
  • 18 March 2019: REGNUM, Russia – The Burial Orbit

2018

• • 15 December 2018: Russian Reporter Magazine, Russia – Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 20 November 2017: REGNUM, Russia – Journey to the Edge of the Room

Awards and Grants

2025

• • 14 August 1st place in the category ‘Megapolis: Time and Space’ International Festival “Light and Colour”, Elets, Russia
    Photo Series: Retrotopia
  • 11 August TOP-25 of the Monochromatic Awards competition by Dodho Magazine. Photo series ‘Retrotopia’
  • 1 August Shortlist, for the OFF Bratislava Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia. Photo book ‘The Fifth Quarter’
  • 17 June 2025: Shortlist, International Festival “Light and Colour”, Elets, Russia
    Photo Series: Retrotopia
  • 25 April 2025: Scholarship for Outstanding Figures of Culture and Art of Russia 2025

2024

• • 26 April 2024: Scholarship for Outstanding Figures of Culture and Art of Russia 2024

2023

• • 9 August 2023: Scholarship for Outstanding Figures of Culture and Art of Russia 2023
  • 2023: Bartur Photo Award Shortlist, UK
    Project: Retrotopia
  • 6 July 2023: Finalist, Young Photography of Russia, Kaluga, Russia
    Project: Retrotopia

2022

• • 2 August 2022: Winner, All-Russian Open Competition of Projects in Scientific and Technological Art - Science.Technology.Art STArt, Sleep with a Robot Nomination
    Project: The Fifth Quarter

2021

• • 21 November 2021: ND Award 2021 Shortlist, International
    Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 25 August 2021: Felix Schoeller Photo Award Shortlist, Osnabrück, Germany
    Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 20 August 2021: Bartur Photo Award, 1st Place in Student Category, UK
    Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 18 June 2021: Scholarship for Outstanding Figures of Culture and Art of Russia 2021
  • 11 March 2021: Nova ART Longlist, Russia
    Project: The Fifth Quarter
  • 24 February 2021: Gomma Grant Shortlist, UK
    Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room

2020

• • 4 December 2020: Krzysztof Miller Prize Shortlist, Warsaw, Poland
    Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 22 October 2020: 212 Photography Istanbul Shortlist, Istanbul, Turkey
    Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 8 October 2020: LensCulture Journeys 2020 Shortlist, International
    Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 29 August 2020: Photo Fringe Shortlist, Brighton, UK
    Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 14 July 2020: Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards, 3rd Place in Single Images Category (Portrait of Victor), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room
  • 2020: Competition of Reportage Photography named after Alexander Efremov Shortlist, Russia
    Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room

2019

• • 2019: Prix Levallois Shortlist, Arles, France
    Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room

2018

• • 2018: X International Youth Photography Contest Young People in the XXI Century 2018, 1st Place in Young Photographers Category (Ages 21–29), International
    Project: Journey to the Edge of the Room

Press Articles as Expert

2025

• • 5 March 2025: SkillBox Media, Russia – Social Media for the Photographer: How to Use It Correctly
  • 13 February 2025: SkillBox Media, Russia – Portfolio for Photographer: Instructions
  • 20 January 2025: Paradigm of Education Online Magazine, Russia – Interview: Natalia Ershova: Photography Is a Conversation with the World

2024

• • 21 November 2024: SkillBox Media, Russia – Photo Contests: How and Why to Enter Them
  • 21 November 2024: SkillBox Media, Russia – How to Write a CV Correctly
  • 3 October 2024: SkillBox Media, Russia – Photo Project: How and Why to Plan It
  • 23 July 2024: SkillBox Media, Russia – How to Finish a Photo Project
  • 20 June 2024: Art Agent Magazine, Russia – Interview about The Fifth Quarter Project

Artist Talks

2024

• • 23 November 2024: Master Class for Third-Year Students, Faculty of History, Department of Cinema and Contemporary Art, Russian State Institute for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia

2023

• • 6 October 2023: Interpretation Artist for the Exhibition Programme, MMoMA Ermolaevsky Pereulok 17, Moscow, Russia

Art Markets

2025

• • 5 April 2025: WIN-WIN Art Market, Shop White Space, Winzavod, Moscow, Russia