BIO
Daria Yakovishina
Environment, sculpture, watercolour graphics and multimedia artist.
Graduated from St. Petersburg Stieglitz Academy (2016), Master's degree in Environmental Design.
Winner of international and all-Russian graphic and design competitions. She did an internship in Rome. Her works are in galleries and private collections in Russia and abroad.
She creates architectural concepts. More than 40 objects have been created based on her designs: exhibition spaces, museums, etc.
In her works she experiments with images of real and imaginary environments, exploring the boundaries between what nature can create and human artistic expression.
Daria translates her ideas into visual art genres. She follows her curiosity, her inner searcher and explorer. In her early childhood, while observing life through the microscopes of her mother's laboratory, she dreamed of becoming a pioneering scientist, looking into the previously unexplored.
Using her experience of architectural design and watercolour graphics she experiments with a variety of forms for her statements.She uses sculpture, reliefs, light, watercolours and multimedia to express his visions.
The space of the work is like an architectural landscape, there is no scale and the objects are not subordinate to one another.The focus is on natural phenomena, the formation and emergence of life, and the relationship between nature and living things. These themes are explored through form, tactility and airspace. Then there is an analysis of the interaction between the viewer and the objects created.
Behind almost every project is a personal experience, and the impulse for the creation of works is the observation of nature and living creatures.
CV
Personal exhibitions (selective):
2021 The Garden of Stones. Artmuse Museum of Contemporary Art. St. Petersburg.
2019 "Fire, Water and Iron Pipes". Multimedia exhibition complex "The Universe of Water", Vodokanal.
2018 "Watercolour". Dashkova Residence, St. Petersburg.
2017 "Fire, Water and Iron Pipes". Museum "Russian Levsha", St. Petersburg.
2010 "Watercolour". Russian Centre, Warsaw, Poland.
2008-2010 "Watercolour" Branch of Russian Culture Fund.
Competitions (selective):
2019 Mr.Boyko Nedialkov Award Winner, International Festival "Plovdiv 2019", Bulgaria.
2019 First Class Laureate in Watercolour Graphics, Russian Arts Prize, Moscow.
2018,2015,2020 ArchiGrafic finalist. Moscow.2017 1st degree laureate of the "Faber Castell" artists' competition, category "Graphics".
2017 Winner of the ArhciChance competition in the "Lakhta Centre Silhouette" category, (organiser of the Lakhta Centre competition), St. Petersburg.
2016 Winner of the award of the Governor of the Ivanovo region in the category "Fine Art". Ivanovo.
2015 Winner of the "Watercolor Perspective" at the Masters of Watercolor Exhibition, Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists, St. Petersburg.
2015 Winner of the competition in the field of architecture and design "ArchiChance-5", St. Petersburg.
2014 Winner of the architecture and design competition ArchiChance 2 (the organizer of the competition Lakhta Center), St. Petersburg.
2014 Internship in the architectural bureau "Exclusiva Design", as the winner of the competition "ArchiChance", Rome, Italy.
2010 Recipient of Russian Culture Foundation Scholarship. Participation in the presentation of the Russian Culture Foundation program. Russian Culture Foundation program "RFK Scholars".
Biennales, festivals:
2019 Plovdiv International Festival 2019, IWS Bulgaria Foundation, Bulgaria.
2017 Winner of the IX International Biennale "Art-Most-Aquarel 2017", in the category "Interior". Stable wing of the Yusupovsky Palace, St. Petersburg.
2015 First Prize Winner of the VII International Competition of Contemporary Art St. Petersburg Art Week 2015.
Group exhibitions (selective):
2022 -2023 Participant of the inclusive exhibition "Art of Being. Beyond Close" as part of the residence GOLSTRIM, Sviyazhsk (Tatarstan), Vladimir (State Vladimir-Suzdal Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve, CC "Chambers").г. Ivanovo (Burylin Museum), Moscow (Temp House).
2020 an exhibition of the finalists of the Archigraphics 7 competition, as part of the ARCHMoscow festival, Gostiny Dvor and Catacomba Gallery, Moscow.
2019 Exhibition as part of the International Festival Plovdiv 2019, Bulgaria.2013-2019 Participant in annual exhibitions of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists
2015-2017 Exhibition "Masters of Watercolour Painting", Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists, St. Petersburg
2017 exhibition as part of the IX International Biennial Art-Most-Aquarel. Stable wing of the Yusupovsky Palace, St. Petersburg
2015 exhibition as part of the Archigraphy 2014-2015 competition in the Drawing from Nature category Moscow
Residences:
2022 Participant of the residency and final exhibition "The Art of Being: Beyond Close" GOLSTRIM Foundation, Moscow.
2016 I.E. Repin Academic Dacha, Russia, Tver region, Vyshny Volochek
