By exhibiting her graduation work at Sotheby's Cologne, Daria Nazarenko creates a conglomerate that materializes gestures of resilience through various mediums. The exhibition includes porcelain sculptures, two photographs that stand 4 meters tall, and a performance. In collaboration with Sotheby's, she is facilitating an auction of immaterial gestures of resilience, where buyers can bid on workshops designed to help them embody the sold gestures. This initiative highlights the artistic expression of resilience and engages participants in a transformative experience.
BIO
Daria Nazarenko (she/her) is a cinemato-performer moving between film stills and subcultures. By staging bodies and cameras, she highlights the hidden dynamics of social life. Her works encompass multimedia video installations, hybrid dance films, and site-specific live performances.
Her artistic practice was significantly influenced by her travels to Senegal from 2021 to the present, where she felt the urge to involve a non-western collective approach through programs at "École des Sables" integrating diverse cultural perspectives.
Her artistic practice includes curating urban spaces into museum-like environments, with happenings at the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, as well as in Moscow the not-found-Gallery and in Paris at the Beaux-Arts-Ateliers. Currently she is curating permamently at the Gemeinde Köln with the focus on happenings in public spaces. Her works have been showcased in institutions such as PACT Zollverein, K21 Düsseldorf, Sotheby's Cologne and at tanzhaus nrw. Through her interdisciplinary approach, she enriches the contemporary art scene and fosters dialogue about identity, honoring her own migrational narrative.
BIO
Daria Nazarenko (she/her) is a cinemato-performer moving between film stills and subcultures. By staging bodies and cameras, she highlights the hidden dynamics of social life. Her works encompass multimedia video installations, hybrid dance films, and site-specific live performances.
Her artistic practice was significantly influenced by her travels to Senegal from 2021 to the present, where she felt the urge to involve a non-western collective approach through programs at "École des Sables" integrating diverse cultural perspectives.
Her artistic practice includes curating urban spaces into museum-like environments, with happenings at the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, as well as in Moscow the not-found-Gallery and in Paris at the Beaux-Arts-Ateliers. Currently she is curating permamently at the Gemeinde Köln with the focus on happenings in public spaces. Her works have been showcased in institutions such as PACT Zollverein, K21 Düsseldorf, Sotheby's Cologne and at tanzhaus nrw. Through her interdisciplinary approach, she enriches the contemporary art scene and fosters dialogue about identity, honoring her own migrational narrative.