Elena Vertikova - artist based in Poland.  Her main areas of artistic activity are video and installation in public space. She works with the theme of Human/Nature through different forms of art expression. 

Participant of numerous exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Taking part in international art festivals in Europe and Africa. Holder of the Cultural Scholarship of the City of Gdansk. Nominated for the Artistic Award in 2020 New Image/New Vision in Poland (Nowy Obraz / Nowe Spojrzenie, UAP Poznan). Nominated for the Artistic Award ART NOBLE in 2021 in Poland. Nominated for the Award RED ROSE (Czerwona Róża) as a best student of Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk in 2021 in Poland. 
Since 2021 PhD student at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.

"My inspiration comes from nature, silence, water surface and depth. Sometimes I turn to science, to the physics of light, to time, to chaos. In my work I do research in the mixing of colours on surfaces and in space. I am inspired by both the presence of light and its absence.
In my work I explore the effects of nature on humans. And I search for ways to achieve with light/lighting similar results that humans get from natural light sources such as sun, fire, candle". 



Selected solo exhibitions
2021  
Mother Water, Old Sobieski Water Reservoir, Gdansk, Poland. 
2020 Granice Widzialności / Visibility Boundaries, Peron Gallery (Gdański Archipelag Kultury), Gdansk, Poland.
2020 Interfering With Colour and Form, Brama Nizinna Gallery, Gdansk, Poland.
2018  
With Closed EyesGdansk Municipal Gallery GGM1, Gdansk, Poland.
2016  Don't Forget Your Koenig Summer, art gallery Gates, Kaliningrad, Russia.
2016  Flower Power, art laboratory Persona, Kaliningrad, Russia.
2014  Keep Calm & Sail, art gallery Wharf, Kaliningrad, Russia.
Selected group exhibitions
2023 Daydreaming, group exhibition, Numo Foundation, Kamień, Poland.
2023 
TIMELESS LIGHT ENTAGLEMENT, Symposium and Exhibition, Ionion Center for the Arts & Culture, Greece.
2023 International painting symposium, Pieniny National Park, Slovakia.
2023 Absence/Brak, group exhibition, 
Galeria Designu, Zbrojownia Sztuki/Great Armoury, Gdańsk, Poland.
2023 Noc Muzeów/Night of Museums, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.
2022 XXV International Encounters Traverse, (Almost) Unlimited Capacity, Cinéma ABC, Toulouse, France.
2022 Young Painters, Great Armoury, group exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland.
2022 
RAW incontra MNMF 2021 RAW selection, video-art screenings at the Miami New Media Festival Channel.
2022 The Climate Change Memorial, video-art screenings at Alphabet Art Centre, produced by The New Museum of Networked Art, Cologne, Germany.
2022 LA Art Show, collaborative installation curated by Max Presneill, Torrance Art Museum.
2022 BWA Olsztyn, group exhibition of the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk.
2021 XXIVth International Encounters Traverse, Abattoirs, Museum – Frac Occitanie, Toulouse, France​​​.
2021 
Miami New Media Festival, video-art group exhibition, Doral Contemporary Art Museum, Doral, Florida.
2021 Rome Art Week, video-art group exhibition, Rome, Italy.
2021 Pan Damian Odchodzi, WL4, group exhibition in spaces of the historical Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland.
2021 
Baltic Young – The Garden of Forking Paths, NCCA-Kaliningrad (Baltic Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts), Russia.
2020 NewMediaFest2020, Corona! Shut Down? - Corona Film Collection, curated by Elizabeth Ross & Dee Hood, Cologne, Germany.
2020 
International Forum of Performance Art, Emphasis artcentre, Dráma, Greece
2020 Rozstaje, Plein-air exhibition, Dzwonnica Gorajec, Poland.
2020 Sprawy Bieżące/Current Affairs, Wystawa Prac Studentów i Absolwentów ASP w Gdańsku, Zbrojownia Sztuki/Great Armoury, Gdansk, Poland.
2020 SZTUKA IZOLACJI, laureatka konkursu III nagroda / on-line show, Bydgoskie Centrum Sztuki, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
2020 #RYSOWAĆ, The International Student Drawing Exhibition / on-line show, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń, Poland.
2019 UNDARK#8 | НЕ ТЕМНО #8 festival of light art in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Dec 21 to 22.
2019 International exhibition Everything is as it was. Nothing is as it was (Wszystko jest jak było. Nic nie jest jak było),
Contemporary Art Gallery of the North-Masovian Museum in Łomża, Poland.
2019 
PRZEGRYS 2, exhibition of the student drawing review competition, Great Armoury, Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk, Poland.
2019 Young Talent From The Coast (Aukcja Młodzi Zdolni z Wybrzeża), Face To Face Art Auction House, Warsaw, Poland.
2019 International Media Art Biennial SEE DJERBA, Houmt Souk, Djerba, Tunisia.
2019 LICHTCAMPUS, group exhibition in Wismar city space; site Wasserkunst, Wismar, Germany.
2019 Światła Bergera | Berger Lights, Willa Bergera, Sopot, Poland.
2018 UNDARK #7 | НЕ ТЕМНО #7, international festival of contemporary light art, Ekaterinburg, Russia.
2018 An Plein Air exhibition of the Faculty of Painting, Culture has Many Faces Gallery, Gdansk, Poland.

2018 INTERFERENCE, International Light Art Project in the Medina of Tunis, Tunisia.
2018 Students-Students. Textile collage, international exhibition, Stacja Kultura, Rumia, Poland.
2018 Light as a Creative Tool, Shipyard, Gdansk, Poland.
2018 Greetings From There, international exhibition, Chodowiecki & Grass House, Gdansk, Poland.
2018 TS:XD L1V3 4CT, 10 years of Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, Gdansk, Poland.
2017 In Thrill and Asceticism, international exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery of the North- Masovian Museum in Łomża, Poland.
2017 Art Change Makers, international exhibition, The Gallery of Modern Art Triptych Art, Kiev, Ukraine.
2017 Greetings From There, art village VITLAND, Kaliningrad, Russia.
2017 Night of Museums, Mała Zbrojownia, Gdansk, Poland.
2016 Bridge Networks, art gallery Gates, Kaliningrad, Russia.
2014 quadriART, international exhibition, EaglGallery, Berlin, Germany.




Publications
2023 
,,Rocznik Gdański’’ Gdańskiego Towarzystwa Naukowego, Gdańskie badania artystyczne AD 2022.
2022 BWA Olsztyn, group exhibition of the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk.
2022 Young Painters, Great Armoury, group exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland.
2022 
XXV International Encounters Traverse, (Almost) Unlimited Capacity, Cinéma ABC, Toulouse, France, p. 37.
2021  XXIVth International Encounters Traverse, Abattoirs, Museum – Frac Occitanie, Toulouse, France​​​, p. 169.
2021  Juliet Art Magazine, 
In conversation with Elena Vertikova, 31.05.2021
2021  Nowy Obraz / Nowe Spojrzenie, katalog konkursu, p. 88-93
2020 RYSOWAĆ, katalog wystawy, p. 77
2020 Biuletyn Rzeźby nr 2/2020, Magazyn o sztuce współczesnej wydawany przez Bydgoskie Centrum Sztuki, p. 74-75
2019  Wszystko jest jak było. Nic nie jest jak było. Exhibition catalog, p. 40-41
2018  ARS PHOTONICA, Bettina Pelz: NE TEMNO Yekaterinburg.ru 2018

2018  
Contemporary And (C&), Installation view, INTERFERENCE Tunis 2018
2018  From Here to Eternity, The House of Lovis Corinth, Volume 34
2018  Greetings From There, Volume 20
2018  Painting Department catalog, Academy of Fine Arts, Volume 60, pages 55-56
2018  The Baltic Daily newspaper, page 26. Issue 26.02.2018
2018  Tricity.Wyborcza.pl newspaper, page 4. Issue 26.02.2018



Curatorial projects
2018 Greetings From There, GGM, Chodowiecki & Grass House, Gdańsk, Poland.



Education
Since  2021  PhD course, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland.
2016 - 2021  MA, Painting Department, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland.


Gallery education
2018 The Deep Water, educational project for students of Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk,
Gdansk Municipal Gallery, Gdansk, Poland.