Alexandra Catiere | MMX | 30 June — 31 August 2010

Alexandra Catiere was born in 1978 in Minsk, Belarus. She fell in love with photograhy while studying at Minsk state linguistic university. In 2003, under the influence of her art guru, famous soviet artist Yuriy Ku¬per, she moved to New York where she completed a certificate program at the International Center of Pho¬tography. After graduating from ICP, she worked for a year in the studio of an internationally renowned pho-tographer Irving Penn. In 2005 Alexandra Catiere was included in the list of 20 most promising emerg¬ing photographers of New York and became a participant of Art & Commerce, a traveling exhibition of emerg-ing photographers that began its journey in D.U.M.B.O., NYC. Two years later Catiere was named an emerging star of international photography scene according to the important photography magazine Ameri¬can Photo.
Alexandra has been participating in international photographic festivals in France, Japan, Italy, she has also been selected to be in DESCUBRIMIENTOS PhotoEspana 2006, Madrid. In 2006 she received a “Silver Camera” award of Moscow House of Photography in the nomination “Faces”.
In 2009 Pobeda gallery presented Alexandra Catiere at Paris Photo and in June 2010 Pobeda gallery will be presenting her new series at VOLTA6 in Basel.
Apart from art photography Alexandra has been working as a fashion photographer. She is constantly work-ing with The New Yorker, The New York Times, Le Monde, Dazed&Confused, Gentelwoman, American Photo, Crash.
Alexandra Catiere lives and works in Paris.
The idea of the first solo show of Alexandra Catiere in Russia, which Pobeda gallery presents as a part of 2nd Moscow International Biennale of young art, is an overview of the last ten years of the photographers work. The title of the exhibition “MMX” — is a symbol of the year 2010 according to the ancient roman cal-endar.

«Everything that has happened in history, with our country, on our earth and in our families-one, two, hundreds and even thou¬sands of years ago-has never gone away. It remains with us all, as a certain conglomerate of images and sensations. Time and boarders are absent there, for it remains as a uniform mass that is transformed within our minds, within our hearts, through all of the creases and crevices of our bodies, as it tries to get outside-demanding its form once again.
When I take pictures-I’m reminiscing….»

Alexandra Catiere

Shows:

2010 “MMX”, POBEDA Gallery, Moscow, solo show
2009 “Fragments”, photo installation at PARIS PHOTO with the Gallery Pobeda, Moscow
2009 "I cannot give you anything but love,” Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, solo show, USA
2009 Photo installation at SLICK with the gallery Lacen, Paris, France
2009 “I cannot give you anything but love”, Rome Festival of Photography, Italy

2009 New in Contemporary Photography, Flanders Gallery, group show, NC, USA
2009 50 women photographers, MiCamera Gallery, group show, Milan, ITALY
2008 Randall Scott Gallery, 8 photographers, Washington, D.C., USA
2008 International Festival of Photography in Rome, group show, ITALY
2008 International Festival of Photography in Lille, group show, FRANCE
2008 Russian Soul, OTTO ZOO Gallery, MILAN, two-artists show, ITALY
2007 HYERES Festival of Fashion and Photography, selected photographer, group show, includes publi¬cation, FRANCE
2006 “SILVER CAMERA”, Festival of Photography in MOSCOW, first prize in the nomination “Faces”, RUSSIA
2006 ART+COMMERCE, Festival of Emerging Photographers, includes publication, NEW YORK, a traveling exhibition in Tokyo, Milan, Stockholm, Madrid
2005 International Center of Photography, graduation group show, NEW YORK