Contact natalia.skobeeva [@] network.rca.ac.uk
Education
MA Royal College of Art, London, UK
PGC Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK
MA History, State University, Russia
Awards
2019 A-N Artist Bursary
2018 LOOP DISCOVER AWARD, finalist
2018 Arts Council Project Grant for public sculpture The UnNational Monument
2018 Deptford X Fringe Bursary
2018 London Creative Network Award, supported by SPACE studios and European Union Regional Development fund
2017 ARTAGON III, Hans Ulrich Obrist (President of the jury,) Catherine David (Deputy Director of the Centre Pompidou, Paris), Elizabeth Neilson (Director of the Zabludowicz Collection, London)
2016 Red Mansion Art Prize
2016 Tenderflix
2016 LUX Critical forum
2015 Arts Council Grant, International Artist Development Fund
2015 RCA award to attend the Opening of 2015 Venice Biennale
April 2015, March 2014 Cowley Manor Arts Award, selecting committee Millicent Wilner (director at the Gagosian Gallery) Jenni Lomax (director of Camden Arts Centre), Alex Sainsbury (director of Raven Row)
January 2012, nominated for Corinthia Art Prize, selecting committee Jan Dalley (Arts Editor, Financial Times), Amanda Nevill (Director, British Film Institute), Ben Evans (Director, London Design Festival), Caroline Rush (CEO, British Fashion Council), Ed Vaizey (MP, Minister for Culture)
Residencies
2018 Goldsmiths University Library, 2-year research residency
October 2016, Red Gate residency, Beijing, China
August-September 2016, Espronceda residency, Barcelona, Spain
October – November 2010, Residency with Mimar Sinan Fine Art University Istanbul, leading artist for a number of workshops with students
Selected Solo Shows
September 2016, This Territory is Time, Espronceda Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain
February -March 2016, Horrors of Archiving, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium. Supported by the Arts Council England.
September – October 2012, SET LOOSE and the Olympic Stadium , Gallery 1885 in the Camera Club, London, UK
May – September 2012, Carpets in Saint Petersburg, former Leningrad, former Saint Petersburg, the State Museum of the Political History of Russia, Saint Petersburg, Russia
September – October 2011, Memento Mori Moscow 2011, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Special Project, Artplay, Moscow, Russia
November – January 2009, Peculiar Processes, Viewfinder gallery, Linear House, London, UK
Selected Group shows
2020
Wrong Biennale, Going away TV, Arebyte Gallery, London, UK
Contested Desires, March 2020-September 2021, hosted by LAC (Lagos, Portugal), La Bonne (Barcelona, Spain) , D6: Culture in Transit (Newcastle, UK) as part of the Contested Desires exhibition, and Xarkis (Polystipos, Cyprus) as part of the Contested Desires final exhibition at XARKIS Festival.
2019
21 Contemporary Art Biennale VideoBrazil oct 2019 – feb 2020 SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
LOOP Discover and RV Space presenting finalists of the LOOP Discover Award at the Venice Biennale 2019
Suoja/ Shelter Festival, Helsinki, Finland
Lewisham Art House, Life&Beyond, screening, London, UK
LOOP DISCOVER Award @Avora Art Cinema, Athens, Greece
Digital Diaspora, Centrala, Birmingham, UK
Stockholm Indépendant art fair Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham, UK
2018
TBCTV with Mel Brimfield, Ewan Jones Morris and Chloe Lamford, Somerset House, October 3-7 2018.
Visions in the Nunnery Biennale, Melanie Manchot program, BowArts, London
LUMINOCITY, public arts bienalle, Kamloops, Canada
The 6th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taiwan
Screening of selected works from 2018 TIVA @ Yu-Hsiu museum, Nantou, Taiwan
LOOP DISCOVER Award 2018, Barcelona, Spain
LOOP DISCOVER AWARD 2018 at GlogauAIR, Berlin.
The UnNational Monument public sculpture, Deptford X, kindly supported by the Arts Council England, Project Grants, Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre and Deptford X bursary.
X Shiryaevo Biennale of Contemporary Art, Samara, Russia
Rencontres Internationales Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Whitstable Biennale (shortlist)
Rencontres Internationales in Paris, Forum des images, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
SHIFT like the end and the way, exhibition and screening program by A–Z, EVAN IFEKOYA / GAIKA / AMIR GEORGE / PAUL MAHEKE / IMRAN PERRETTA / NATALIA SKOBEEVA / REHANA ZAMAN @ RCA Dyson gallery, London, UK
Space Studios, LCN showcase award, London, UK
Transcending species, gender, nations and robots somewhere, Deptford Cinema, London
2017
ARTAGON.III curated and chaired by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paris, France
SHOW 2017, Royal College of Art, London, UK
LOOP Festival, Barcelona, Spain
Multiplied, Kingsgate Project Space, West Hampstead, London, UK
#Supercommunity, Dyson Gallery, RCA, London, UK
Red Mansion Art Award 2017, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, UK
RCA Print, CGP London gallery, London, UK
2016
Tenderflix, Better Living, The Horse Hospital, London, UK
Visions in the Nunnery, Moving image and performance biennale, Bow Arts, London, UK
MANIFESTA 11, Zurich, Switzerland
Bristol Biennale 2016, Bristol, UK
Oracles of Humankind, 2 persons show with David Blandy, Dyson Gallery, RCA, London UK
2015
August 2015, Now&After video festival retrospective, Museum of Moscow, Russia
July 2015, Two hundred acres, Pump House gallery, London
July 2015, The Story so far, W3 gallery Acton, London, supported by Arts Council England
March RCA secret, Dyson gallery, RCA Battersea
February 2015 Transform1:3, Dyson Gallery, RCA Battersea
2013
November 2013 – January 2014, Art:screen, Gislaveds konsthall, Gislaved, Sweden
July 2013, Video Art Festival Miden 2013, programme Street Views, Kalamata, Greece
May 2013, 15th WRO Media Art Biennale: Pioneering Values, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland
May 2013, URBAN PROCESSES RU, [.BOX] Videoart project space, Milano, Italy
March 2013, Reuse Aloud on basic.fm, supported by Arts Council England, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2012
November 2012 – International Symposium of Media Culture ‘Pro&Contra’, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
October 2012 – NCCA Art Museum, Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia
October 2012 – Viatka Art Museum, Kirov, Russia
May – June 2012, ‘Now&After’ video festival, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
April 2012, Joyful Archipelago, Guest Projects in Yinka Shonibare studio, supported by OUTSET Contemporary Art Fund, London, UK
2011
October – December 2011, Closer to Something, Photomonth, FourCorners, London, UK
October 2011, BYOB, MOving Image Art Fair, Oxo Tower Wharf, London, UK
September – October 2011, Media Impact. International Festival of Activist Art, Special Project of 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Artplay, Moscow, Russia
2010
March 2010, Alternative Risk Transfer, Whitechapel Art gallery, London, UK
April 2010, Dialects III: Iconolody, Pushkin House, London, UK
July 2010, Q-Art, APT Gallery, London, UK
November 2010, Photomonth, London, UK
October 2010, TINAG festival, London, UK
Curatorial
2018 Transcending species, gender, nations and robots somewhere DeptfordCinema, London, UK
2017 #Supercommunity book, exhibition and website launch, Dyson Gallery, London, UK
Conferences/Talks
2016 TECHNE Doctorate conference Memory & Perception, panel, RichMix, London, UK
2016 Watermans Digital Unicorns conference, London, UK
2013 Visiting artist @ MA Photography, Central St. Martins college of Art and Design, London, UK
Work has been acquired by the Red Mansion Foundation, Espronceda Art Centre collection, Royal College of Art Print Archive and various private collections.
