Katerina Verba is an artist and curator based in Novorossiysk. Her work revolves around identities — gender, national, ethnic, territorial — and she presents her exploratory and artistic practices through installations and collective exhibitions.
Katerina completed her studies at the Art and Graphics Faculty of Kuban State University, specializing as an artist-pedagogue in 2013. She further pursued a course in Art of Quick Response at the Krasnodar Institute of Contemporary Art (ZIP Group) in 2017. Additionally, she received training at the School of Curators, Researchers, and Organizers at the Typography Center of Contemporary Art in Krasnodar in 2019. In 2020, Katerina graduated from the Second Curatorial School of the Nemoskva project, supported by the GCAC, focusing on the theme of “Care and Criticism in Curatorial Work.” She also participated in the research laboratory Space 1520 at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow in 2022.
Katerina Verba’s interests encompass identity, decoloniality, ecology, collective practices, educational processes, memory, the phenomenon of silence, therapeutic practices in art, and inclusion. She was a nominee for the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award in the category Art in Public Space in 2019.