Ekaterina Sharova is an Oslo-based curator, producer, educator and writer.
Having interdisciplinary background in pedagogy, literature, philosophy, history of art, performance studies and leadership, she is interested in redesigning the invisible social threads, bringing back the forgotten histories and the meeting points between various – seemingly disconnected – approaches. She is interested in tacit knowledge and making suppressed voices heard in her projects.
Ekaterina has been involved in placemaking processes in Oslo East and in the border region between Russia, Norway and Finland. She holds a BA in Education from the experimental Faculty of Humanities (Pomor State University), BA in Aesthetics and MA in Art History (University of Oslo).
She has been advisor for Àbadakone, exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art at the National Gallery of Canada.
Ekaterina has curated and co-curated interdisciplinary and public-involving projects for Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, Kunsthall Stavanger, La Colección del Museo Ruso de San Petersburgo, Málaga as well as festival Barents Spektakel (Kirkenes, Norway), Festspillene i Nord-Norge, Teriberka Festival, Arctic Art Forum, Arctic Arts Summit, Bodø Biennale etc. Since 2019, she has been involved into movie production (working primarily with architecture and design film and documentary).
She has been a board member of Kunsthistorisk forening, Samspill, Arctic Arts Summit and APECS.
Ekaterina Sharova has written for Klassekampen, Ny Tid, Billedkunst and has been editor for several books: North 2.0.Contemporary Culture and Art, The Living North, as well as co-editor of the Chatter Marks magazine (in collaboration with the Anchorage Museum).
