ADUCATION
1988-1991 ART SCHOOL
1993-1995 ART ACADEMY MOSCOW
1996-1998 ART AND MEDIA SCHOOL ZURICH, CH
1998-1999 CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ART MOSCOW
2001-2003 UDK BERLIN, CLASSE OF PROF. REBECCA HORN, DIPLOMA
SOLO
2009
Elena Kovylina ou Le Malentendu — Analix Forever, Geneva
2007
Elena Kovylina — Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, ON
GROUP
2015
Memory & Oblivion — Station, Beirut
Biennale d’art contemporain Hybride3 2015 — , Dubai
Imago Mundi. Luciano Benetton Collection. Mappa dell’arte nuova — Fondazione Giorgio Cini,Venice
Vienna for art’s Sake — Belvedere, Vienna
PC / Political correctness? — Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal
2014
The World Must Still Be Young — Triumph Gallery, Moscow
Russian Performance: A Cartography Of Its History — Garage Museum of Contemporary Art,Moscow
Un Instant Forever / A Moment Forever — Analix Forever, Geneva
Manifesta 10 — The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
La mirada compromesa — Fundación Francisco Godia, Barcelona
do it Moscow — Garage Center for Contemporary Culture — GCCC, Moscow
Il Piedistallo vuoto. Fantasmi dall’Est Europa — Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna, Bologna
The Empty Pedestal — Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna, Bologna
2013
5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art — Bolshe Sveta / More Light — Manege Central Exhibition Hall , Moscow
The Voice And The Chorus — Russian Video Art — De Hallen, Haarlem
International Women’s Day. Feminism: From Avant-Garde to the Present — Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow
Dreams For Those Who Are Awake — Moscow museum of modern art — MMOMA, Moscow
De madonna a Madonna. (De)construcciones de lo femenino en la sociedad contemporánea — DA2 — Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca
2012
re.act.feminism #2 — A Performing Archive — Fundación Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
Montaje de Atracciones — Tirar del Hilo — Colección Artium / Sala Norte — ARTIUM — Basque Museum Center of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Le Printemps de Septembre — à Toulouse 2012 — les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse
re.act.feminism #2 — A Performing Archive — Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde
Beautiful Penis — Galerie Nuke, Paris
re.act.feminism 2 — a performing archive — Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb
Heimat Heisst РОДИНА — Galerie Wedding, Berlin
2011
Artisartisart — Moscow museum of modern art — MMOMA, Moscow
Folge der Generationen — Motorenhalle — riesa efau. Kultur Forum Dresden, Dresden
Patria o Libertad! Country or Liberty. The Rethoric of Patriotism — mocca — Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON
Expanded Cinema — Moscow museum of modern art — MMOMA, Moscow
Modernikon — Diehl + Gallery One, Moscow
Patria o Libertad! Country or Liberty. The Rethoric of Patriotism — Cobra Museum, Amstelveen
Statement: I Advocate Feminism — Galerie ArtPoint / KulturKontakt, Vienna
2010
New gravity/Interesting thing — National Center For Contemporary Art (NCCA) — Moscow Branch,Moscow
Transitland in Trieste — Studio Tommaseo — Istituto per la documentazione e diffusione delle Arti,Trieste
Patria o Libertad! Country or Freedom!: The Rhetorics of Patriotism — MDC Art Gallery — Miami Dade College, Miami, FL
Modernikon, Contemporary Art from Russia — Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
ŽEN d’АРТ — The Gender History of Art in the Post-Soviet Space: 1989–2009 — Moscow museum of modern art — MMOMA, Moscow
The First International Performance Art Festival — Garage Center for Contemporary Culture — GCCC, Moscow
No More Bad Girls — Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen
Transitland — Space (former Galéria Priestor for Contemporary Arts), Bratislava
Transitland — Moscow museum of modern art — MMOMA, Moscow
No more bad girls? — WUK — Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Man Son 1969. Vom Schrecken der Situation — Villa Merkel — Galerien der Stadt Esslingen,Esslingen
Transitland — Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
2009
Enduring Futurism — Dispari & Dispary Project, Reggio Emilia
Gender Check — Rollenbilder in der Kunst Osteuropas — Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig — MUMOK , Vienna
Kandinsky Prize 2009 nominees — Central House of Artists, Moscow
Transitland — The Red House — Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia
Transmediale — Transitland Destination Berlin (TCP) — Ungarisches Kulturinstitut, Berlin
Mobile Archive — Art in General, New York City, NY
Ultra-New Materiality — Moscow museum of modern art — MMOMA, Moscow
T.I.C.A.B — Tirana International Contemporary Art Biannual — National Gallery of Arts Tirana,Tirana
Fiesta ! — Analix Forever, Geneva
LAB 09 — Luleå Art Biennial 2009 — Kilen Art Group, Luleå
History of Russian Video Art. Volume 2 — Moscow museum of modern art — MMOMA, Moscow
9th Sharjah Biennial — Sharjah International Art Biennial, Sharjah
Les frontières invisibles — Tri Postal, Lille
MAN SON 1969. Vom Schrecken der Situation — Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
21 RUSSIA. Group exhibition of the contemporary Russian artists — Office 510, Kiev
2008
re.act.feminism — performancekunst der 1960er und 70er jahre heute — AdK — Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2007
Solo24Ore24Stunden — MUSEION — Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano
Résidents — Espace Fondation EDF, Paris
Sots Art. Art politique en Russie de 1972 à aujourd’hui — La Maison Rouge, Paris
East / West — Galerie Orel Art — Paris, Paris
SWAY — Analix Forever, Geneva
Return of the Memory — New Art from Russia — Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
Petroliana — Moscow Biennial Special Project — Moscow museum of modern art — MMOMA, Moscow
Partners in Crime — Gallery MC, New York City, NY
Gatekeepers — Knoll Galerie Wien, Vienna
2006
Mixed Pickles — Overloaded — K3 Project Space, Zurich
Self-educations — National Center For Contemporary Art (NCCA) — Moscow Branch, Moscow
15th Biennale of Sydney 2006: Zones of Contact — Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Revolution — Transit Art Space, Stavanger
2005
Russia Reduc #1 — Schroeder Romero & Shredder, New York City, NY
IBCA Biennale 2005 — National Gallery Prague Palais Sternberk, Prague
At the Mercy of Others: The Politics of Care — Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
Bellum — Bellum: Gedächtnis dreier Generationen — Sandmann — Berlin, Berlin
2004
The Seven Sins — Moderna galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana
Sommerfrische. Künstlervideos mit Esprit — Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
O.K., America! — Apexart, New York City, NY
2003
Prague Biennale 1 — Karlin Hall, Prague
The Last East European Schow — Muzej savremene umetnosti Beograd, Belgrade
DAVAJ! Russian Art Now — Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna
2002
POP/ART Exhibition — Zverev Center of Modern Arts, Moscow
break21 — Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana
4. Cetinje Biennial — Cetinje Biennale of Visual Arts, Cetinje