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  Galina Kakovkina  
  the artist  
 
 
     
  Galina Kakovkina (Matisova) is an artist and painter born in 1957 in Gorky (Nizhniy Novgorod).
Works first shown at Gorky regional exhibition in 1976.
In 1987 at VDNH (Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy) art exhibition in Moscow Galina gained a medal.
In 1987 Galina Kakovkina with friends founds a creative association "Cherniy Prud", which played a considerable role in cultural life of Nizhniy Novgorod.
From that time she actively participates in art exhibitions, such as Cherniy Prud group exhibitions, «Russian art» project exhibitions, Color Celebration moving exhibitions, which visited Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava and Nizhny Novgorod. She participated in Open city, Vienna; Artists of Six Countries exhibition, Beijing; Summer Vacation, Berlin and others.
Kakovkina’s solo exhibitions and projects often become important events in cultural life:
Painting Interpretation (1995-1996) a project including solo exhibitions Walk in the Garden, Between Thing and Emptiness, Time Name, City landscape and two films directed by Sergei Pazushkin shown in Caryatid Gallery, Nizhniy Novgorod (later Volga Branch of the National Center for Contemporary Art, today “Arsenal”, Volga Branch of Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts);
Light. Fragments (1998), Nizhniy Novgorod exhibition complex;
Composition with a Road (1999), Nizhniy Novgorod State Art Museum.
Exposition 12 (2002), Nizhniy Novgorod exhibition complex;
Road to Cheboksary (2008), Chuvash state art museum;
The Way Home (2008), Nizhniy Novgorod State Art Museum;
Boat (2010), Cosa in se Gallery, Nizhniy Novgorod;
Footprints in the snow, footprints in the sand (2013), Nizhniy Novgorod State Art Museum;
Expanding the Space of Winter (2018), Nizhniy Novgorod State Art Museum;
Red Elm (2024), Nizhniy Novgorod State Art Museum and many others.
Galina Kakovkina lives and works in Nizhny Novgorod.
    
 
  contact:+7 905 01 00 134; galyamatiss@mail.ru
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