Ekaterina Bortsova is one of the most advanced and contemporary artists. She was born in Ukraine. She started her path as an artist at the Kharkov Art School, specializing in fine and decorative arts, and received the qualification of an artist, painting performer and a teacher.
She works in the fields of painting, graphics, prefers various genres: portrait, still life, landscape. The portrait genre covers a significant part of her work. The disclosure of the characters of people through her work is of particular interest.
Bortsova is a sensitive master who follows the current events in the outside world. The ArtZip online gallery presents the series “The Way to My Heart”, which is based on a paper map. The conceptual core of this project is made out of maps of various cities and countries. Ekaterina travels a lot and the maps used in this series represent the imprint of past experiences. The images painted on top of the maps are the quintessence of modern society. Avenues, streets and alleys are like veins burst through their bodies. The poses of the characters can be perceived both as openness and as some kind of a road sign. Also, Ekaterina works in giclee technique, prints, and posters.
2007 – «Graphics by Ekaterina Bortsova». Kharkov Art Museum, Kharkov, Ukraine
2002 – «People of our time». Kharkov Art Museum, Kharkov, Ukraine
2000 – «Graphics». Kharkov Art School, Kharkov, Ukraine
2020 – “La cultura es femenina”, international exhibition, Espacio Cultural El Tanque. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
2019 – “Is there a life after plastic?”. BIS ART Gallery, Vinzavod, Moscow
2019 – “Musas” Russia – Spain. International Art Exhibition. Alicante, Spain
2019 – Exhibition of nominees for the Odessa International Art Prize, «Gardens of Victory», Odessa, Ukraine
2019 – The Rejects, art exhibition online, Cold bench, Italy, Milan https://www.coldbench.com/therejects
2018 – Person City, La Nave. Madrid, Spain
2017 – International Artists Grand Prix, X-Power Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 – International exhibition “Lethes Art. Memorty & Identiti(es)”, Ponte de Lima, Portugal
2017 – International Exhibition “Ice and Fire”, Alicante, Spain
2017 – Art Revolution Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 – POČITELJSKA PRIČA, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2017 – Preview show in Get Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 – Metropolis Urban Winter Festival, Guwahati, India
2016 – Festival ART.WHO.ART #6, Moscow, Russia
2016 – UAMO Festival “Fortress”, Munich, Germany
2016 – Re-Cognition, ART-MAP, arquivo municipal, Ponte de Lima, Portugal
2016 – PRESIÓN MX 43 MOTIVOS, #Fronteras, Mexico City, Mexico
2015 – Third International Exhibition of Graphics, Kraljevo, Serbia
2015 – Interactive exhibition “Find your genius”. London’s Westfield Stratford City, London, Great Britain
2015 – The New York Coffee Festival. New York, USA
2015 – PRESIÓN MX 43 MOTIVOS. Mexico City, Mexico
2015 – IV Biennale of small format watercolors. Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2015 – IV Biennale of small format watercolors. Belgrade, Serbia
2015 – III Brest Triennial of Printing – 2015, Brest, Belarus
2015 – BookILL fest – Book Illustration Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
2015 – 16 INTERBIFEP, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2015 – “Mirrors of Time, Russia and Spain”, Alicante, Spain
2014 – First International Exhibition MAIL-ART EXHIBITION BORDERS. Strasbourg, France
2014 – International Watercolor Competition, France
2014 – Exhibition of the 21st Kicevo International Art Colony, Skopje, Macedonia
2014 – Mail Art Salon 2014, Dallas, Texas, USA
2013 – 8th International Digital Graphics Expo, Ottawa, Canada.
2012 – 7th International Triennial of Graphics Bitola, Macedonia
2012 – «Creative for Human Rights» IV International Biennial of Social and Political Posters, Poland.
2012 – “Matrices 2012” International Exhibition of Small Form Digital Works. Budapest, Hungary
2011 – “Haven and Earth” International Exhibition of Fine Arts, New York, USA
2010 – Graphics exhibition “Jaka bede…”, Ketrzyn Poland
2010 – engraving exhibition «30 Mini Print International», Spain
2010 – “Matrices 2010” International Exhibition of Small Form Digital Works. Budapest, Hungary
2009 – exhibition of a poster dedicated to the 10th anniversary of ISCA, INTERSPEECH conference. Brighton, England
2009 – film poster exhibition dedicated to the Tacoma International Film Festival. Tacoma, USA
2009 – engraving exhibition «29 Mini Print International», Spain
2009 – X International Biennale of Engraving. Josep de Ribera, Xativa, Spain
2009 – 5th International Biennale of Engraving. Tetovo 2009, Macedonia
2009 – 10th International Poster Biennale, Tehran, Iran
2008 – first international student poster competition, “Tolerance – A Global Challenge” Skopje, Macedonia
2008 – film poster exhibition dedicated to the international film festival at Alfa cinema Sokolov, Czech Republic
2008 – engraving exhibition «28 Mini Print International», Spain
2008 – 10th anniversary exhibition of works by teachers and students of higher educational institutions of Kharkov, Kharkov State Academy of Design and Arts, Kharkov
2008 – «Variations» group exhibition at the Kharkov Art Museum
2007 – engraving exhibition «27 Mini Print International», Spain
2007 – IX International Biennale of Engraving – Josep de Ribera – Xativa, Spain
2007 – « International Biennial of Engraving «Mini prints – Tetovo». Tetovo, Macedonia
Works are kept in: in private collections in Serbia, Macedonia, Russia, Great Britain, USA, Australia, Spain, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hong Kong; in the collections: The City Gallery of Uzice, Serbia; Palazzo Sturm, Bassano del Grappa, Italy; The town hall of Xativa, Spain; Bodegas Terras Gauda, S. A .; Tetovo Art Museum, Macedonia; the museum of the city of Bitola, Macedonia; Hungarian Electrographic Art Association, Hungary; Center d’artistes Voix Visuelle, Canada; Brest Regional Museum, Belarus; Emirates Skywards Art Collection, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Museological Collection of Ponte de Lima, Portugal; collection GLO’ART, Belgium.
2016 – Winner of “Find Your Brilliance” by Dell and Mashable, USA
2015 – Winner of the “2015 Emirates Skywards Art of Travel”, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2012 – silver medal in the category “realism” in the exhibition “Factory of visual art”, New York, USA
2012 – Winner of Oxford University Press Cover Competition, Great Britain
2010 – finalist of the international “Free press” poster competition, Citta Fiera Martignacco, Italy
2007 – finalist of the “6 Francisco Mantecon” international advertising poster competition, Spain
She took part in international, regional conferences in Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Astrakhan (2011 – 2015)), Ukraine (Kharkov, Kiev, Cherkassy, 2007 – 2014), Germany (Munich 2012), USA (Texas, Dallas 2014).
She is the author of the monograph: Bortsova E. A. Contribution of N. Samokish to the development of graphic art in the late 19th – early 20th centuries / E. Bortsova. – Saarbrücken: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2015 – 118 p.
And also more than 20 articles published in scientific journals in Russia, Ukraine, Germany.
