BIO
Katia Shneider (ex. Katia Candor), b. 1986, Moscow, is an artist working with installation, sculpture, and video. Her practice focuses on exploring how the individual reconfigures the self and presence in the world amidst ongoing radical social, technological, and cultural transformations.
From 2009 to 2022, she worked in advertising agencies, film production, and industrial enterprises, specializing in media production and strategic communications. In 2022, Katia left Russia, concluding her career in PR to dedicate herself fully to her artistic practice.
Since 2011, she has participated in group exhibitions in Russia, Spain, Georgia, and Montenegro. From 2014, she began creating performances in Moscow museums and parks, primarily working with painting, graphics, and performance.
Since 2023, she has actively developed skills in ceramics, creating installations and video art, and experimenting with materials. She has participated in group and solo exhibitions in cultural centers and galleries in Montenegro and completed her first public art project in the city of Tivat.
She currently lives and works in Montenegro.
Education
2024
CLAY residency, Get art fit. Online
2024
Art project residency, Get art fit. Online
2023
Marre Moerel, “Ceramic Object Creation Using Found Objects”, Madrid, Spain, (online)
2020
Performance and art academy PART, St. Petersburg, Russia
2004-2009
State University of Management, Faculty of Management in the Petrochemical Industry, Moscow, Russia
Solo exhibitions and performances
2025
“Module of the possible”, Public art installation, Tivat, Porto Montenegro, curating by “Boka gallery”
2024
“The Chamber of Secret. Interpretation.”, Cultural Center “Auditorium”, Budva, Montenegro
2016
2014
“Intuition”, “Do Immigration” cultural center, St. Petersburg, Russia
“Here and now: a work of art”, performance number 3 (Livepainting series) Museum of Russian Realistic Art, Moscow, Russia
2014
2014
“Position”, Documentary Film Center (Moscow Museums), Moscow, Russia
“Here and now: a work of art”, performance number 2 (Livepainting series), charity festival “Humanitarna žurka” in support of flood victims in Serbia, Cultural Center “8 Oz”, Gorky Park, Moscow, Russia
2014
“Here and now: a work of art”, performance number 1 (Livepainting series), Moscow, Russia
2013
“Face to face”, cultural center La Hormigonera, Barcelona, Spain
Group shows
2025
2025
“Phantom objects”, Cultural Center “Auditorium”, Budva, Montenegro
“Transformation”, Alexander Gallery, Rose, Montenegro
2024
“The real me”, Alexander Gallery, Rose , Montenegro
2024
Femfest, ReForum Space, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences in tne Balkans, NGO ‘Women’s Rights Center’ (WRC), Budva, Montenegro https://liberalarts.me/
2023
“Metamorphoses”, Artweekend, Pomorandzha Cultural Center, Podgorica, Montenegro
2020
“Poems in prose” theatrical performance, Performance and art academy PART, St. Petersburg, Russia
2016
“Caravan art forum show”, Kutaisi International art forum, David Kakabadze National Gallery, Kutaisi, Georgia
2016
“Caravan art forum show”, Kutaisi International art forum, “Here and now: a work of art”, performance number 4 (Livepainting series), David Kakabadze National Gallery, Kutaisi, Georgia
Activities & Awards
2024
Author’s lecture “Contemporary Ceramics”, cultural center “Auditorium”, Budva, Montenegro
2020
Silver Dolphin at the Cannes Corporate Media and TV Awards 2020, Category “Leisure & Sport”, The very best in corporate media & TV of the year, film “Russia on Drive”, producer.
2014
“Silver Mercury” Festival, artist talk, discussion panel “Sex and Art”, Art Cluster “Red October”, Moscow, Russia
Works in collections
Collection of David Kakabadze National Gallery, Kutaisi, Georgia
Private collections: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Berlin, New York, Barcelona, Istanbul, London, Toulouse