Ekaterina Belukhina is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, participatory performance, installation and video art. Her practice explores how intimate human situations can reveal larger social and political structures. She is drawn to forms that allow the audience not only to observe, but to enter into a relationship with the work. For her, it is important to work with the audience as active participants in meaning-making. 

Painting is an important part of her practice. In her project Nymphs and Myths, she works with large-scale oil painting to rethink the historical representation of women and return subjectivity to female figures. She draws from existing visual traditions and historical painting, but rewrites them through her own language, often leaving women’s bodies white as a deliberate sign. 

The surface of the work is very important. Belukhina uses oil paint in a tactile, physical way: thick brushstrokes, scratches, drips, rubbed-out passages, sudden lines, and areas where the composition seems to break open. This gives the paintings a sense of instability, as if the image is still in the process of becoming. Her diptychs especially intensify this feeling. The split canvas creates both continuity and fracture, allowing the body or landscape to stretch across a seam, as though the image itself has been divided by history, perception, or emotional shock.

Beyond painting, Belukhina’s practice expands into participatory performance, installation, and video, where she continues to show questions of vulnerability, control, and the viewer’s role in constructing meaning. Across media, she is interested in works that do not remain closed objects, but become situations of encounter in which personal experience opens onto wider structures of power, memory, and representation.