Margarita Egorova (RUS, 1986)
is a transdisciplinary artist, writer and new media researcher, whose interests move between physical mediums, such as painture and theater, and virtual mediums, such as digital photography and video, in search of cohesion between man and machine. In her practice she uses video, photography, installations, performance, graphics.
Education
BA in Philology at the Milan State University, IT
MA in Photography at the Brera Milan Academy, IT
Exhibitions
2022
Spoon River, solo show, Orti Fotografici, Milan, IT
2021
Mostra Finalisti Premio Nocivelli 2021, chiesa della Disciplina di Verolanuova, Brescia, IT
2019
R-evolution, Museo degli Innocenti, Florence, IT
Combat Prize, Museo G. Fattori, Livorno, IT
XXV ora!, Museo di Pitagora, Crotone, IT
2018
XXV ora!, San Carpoforo, Milan, IT
2017
Evanescence, Bottega Immagine, Milan, IT
2014
LEGO, Atelier Giorgi, Turin, IT
Awards
2022 – Tokyo Foto Awards – Silver prize for “Spoon River” dummy
2022 – CDPzine award, Castelnuovo Fotografia – honourable mention for “Spoon River” dummy
2021 – Premio Nocivelli, Brescia, IT – shortlisted
2019 – EneganArt award, Florence, IT – winner
2019 – Combat Prize, Livorno, IT – shortlisted
2018 – Luna Rosa award, Milan, IT – winner
2017 – Ruzzante award, ECA European Comedy Academy, Padua, IT. Category “Dramedy” for the script “Aesir” – production prize
2015 – NoPS Festival Award, Rome, IT. Categoryies “Best play” and “Best performance” for “Personae”, written and directed by Margarita Egorova – production prize
2015 – Sipari di carta award, section “Dramaturgy”, for the script In veglia (The Waking), Turin, IT – production prize
2014 – Aldo Rosselli award, section “Best in translation” for the script Isamar, Rome, IT – winner
2013 – Hystrio award, section “Dramaturgy” for the script Visita alla mamma (Visit to mom), Milan, IT – special prize
Residences
2018
My documents, curated by Lola Arias, Zona K, Milan, IT
2017
Piper club, curated by Seb Patane, Artissima, Turin, IT
2014
Teatro utile, dramaturgy workshop with Renato Gabrielli, Accademia dei Filodrammatici, Milan, IT
Apache, Manifatture Teatrali Milanesi, Teatro Litta, Milan, IT
Publications
2019
Combat Prize, catalogue, Sillabe editions, Livorno, IT
2018
XXV now! Images against femicide, catalogue, Nomos editions, Milan, IT
2014
In veglia (The Waking), PERLASCENA online magazine, IT
2012
Kontrapunkt, stories of superimposed worlds, novels, Espresso editore, Milan, IT
Theatrical works
2021
Visita alla mamma, mise en lecture. Written and directed by Margarita Egorova. Teatro Aperto, curated by Elisabetta Pozzi and Marco Archetti, CTB – centro teatrale bresciano, Teatro Sociale, Brescia, IT
Doll’s house, H. Ibsen, directed by Olga Samokhotova, assistant director Margarita
Egorova, RGSI – new school of creative technologies, Kaliningrad, RUS
Respublica, collective writing project, produced by the Piccolo Teatro Strehler, directed by Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and Alessandro Ferroni
Abbecedario per un mondo nuovo, episode Pnìgos, written by Margarita Egorova, directed by Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and Alessandro Ferroni, Piccolo Teatro Strehler, Milan, IT
2018
My Document, episode Lists, written and performed by Margarita Egorova, curated by Lola Arias, Zona K, Milan, IT
2016
Comfort and Joe, written by Jen McGregor, directed by Marcela Serli, assistant director Margarita Egorova, Teatro Belli, Rome, IT.
Personae, written and directed by Margarita Egorova, multimedia designer Luca Moroni, with the participation of Elisabetta Scarano, Nogu Teatro, Rome, IT
Addante, directed by Margarita Egorova, multimedia designer Luca Moroni, with the participation of Olga Samokhotova, Fabbrica del vapore, Milan, IT
Moltiplicatore, episode Grande Statista, written by Margarita Egorova, directed by Fulvio Vanacore, with the participation of Alberto Baraghini, Independent Theater Festival, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, IT – Teatro Litta, Milan, IT – Carrozzerie N.O.T., Rome, IT
2015
In Veglia, written by Margarita Egorova, directed by Riccardo Mallus, with the participation of Christian La Rosa, Stefania Mangia, Silvia Rubino, Teatro Agnelli, Turin, IT
2014
New Yorker Hotel 3327 – written and directed by Margarita Egorova and Gianluca Panareo, with the participation of Alberto Baraghini, Teatro Litta, Milan, IT
Contacts
margarita.s.egorova@gmail.com
+39 340693288