Katya Ev’s performative practice explores institutional critique, issues of power and control, and the potential for individual agency within dominant power structures in relation to specific political situations or events. Ev (°1983, Moscow) lives and works between Paris (2007/2020), and Brussels (2020/2024). In 2020 she completed the postgraduate residency at HISK, Ghent (Be), after graduating from Beaux-Arts de Paris (2012) and completing an MA in Political Science at Lomonossof University, Moscow (2005). Their work has been exhibited at i.a. National Museum of Contemporary Art – EMST, Athens (2022), Netwerk Aalst (2021), MHKA (Antwerp, 2020), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2018), the 6th Thessaloniki Biennal (2017, parallel programme), Winzavod Art Center (Moscow, 2015, 6th Moscow Biennial special project) among others.​ Ev is an artist-member of PAF (performing arts forum, Fr), Jubilee (Be), Level Five (Be).