Elena Rabkina is Belarusian artist focused on photography and interactive art. Activist, her artworks hold social commentary and reflect on agism, social inclusion, urbanism, ecology, mental health, migration.
Left Belarus in 2020 due to the political repressions, lived and worked in Odessa, Ukraine till the beginning of the war, and now moved to Europe
ELENA RABKINA
Phone: +480 571 940401
E-mail: rrrabkina@gmail.com
Born: 07.07.1989 in Vitebsk, Belarus
Residence: Krakow, Poland
EDUCATION
2003—2005
Vitebsk Art School.
2007—2012
Minsk State Linguistic University – Linguist, teacher of English, German, and Rhetoric.
2011—2012
Program on Contemporary Photo Art
by Alexander Velidimovich.
2021—2022
Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University – Master’s degree in psychology.
Exhibitions
2013
The Cube”, Photo Intercultural Marathon, Beysehir Konya, Turkey.
2016
“Motion to Emotion”, Photozone,
Minsk, Belarus.
2016
Concrete Delusion: “Moreless”, SÜDBAHNHOF fotografische Werke, Berlin, Germany.
2016
Concrete Delusion: “Moreless”, National Center for Contemporary Arts, Minsk, Belarus.
2017
2017
Concrete Delusion: “Moreless”, Mark Rothko Art Center, Daugavpils, Latvia.
2017
"I see you, I miss you”, Week of Sweden
(2nd prize), Minsk, Belarus.
2017
"Black stories”. Photozone, Minsk, Belarus.
2017
“Critics”, Center of Belarusian Dramaturgy, Minsk, Belarus. (solo)
2019
“Youth”, Background, Minsk, Belarus.
2021
“I am Okay”, Exhibition of Art Activist Projects, Artivism&Solidarity, online.
2021
“Her Deed”, main square of Lviv, Lviv Municipal Art Center, Ukraine
2022
“Her Deed”, Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, Ukraine.
2022
“14 Confessions to the City”, SUPERBUDE, Vienna, Austria. (solo)
2022
“Invisible People”, Transponder, Vienna, Austria. (solo)
2022
“Sea Heals”, Stakkato, Krakow, Poland (upcoming)
RESIDENCIES
2022 - Future Laboratory Art Residence, Portugal, Spain, Poland.
2022 - Transsectoral Summer School Viadrinicum: University in Ruins.
Scaffolding Futures, Germany.
2022 - Question Me & Answer Art Residence, Austria.
2021 - Media Lab Fem Art Residence, Ukraine.
2021 - Artivism & Solidarity Art Residence, CIS, Mixed format.
GRANTS
2022 - Marion Dönhoff Bursary
2021 - Belarus Free Center Fellowship Grant
2022 - Rada of Culture Grant.
2020 - Nantes Forum of Creative Generations Grant.
2015 - CrossCulture
Internship Scholarship.
AWARDS
2017 - RADA Awards Nomination for the Best Art Project. Minsk, Belarus.
2017 - 2nd prize at Photo Competition by the Embassy of Sweden.