Ekaterina Volkova is an Amsterdam-based artist, designer, and artistic researcher whose work explores the emotional architectures of political life—how systems of power leave marks on language, memory, and the body.

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Working across installations, publications, performance, and immersive formats in both digital and real-world spaces, she weaves institutional language with intimate, everyday gestures. She reworks systemic structures through soft, sometimes absurd rituals of care.

Rooted in critical making and situated research, her projects engage themes of democracy, conflict, diaspora, and labour, offering speculative, embodied, and performative responses to grief, protest, and the politics of staying emotionally present in times of systemic breakdown.

Her past collaborations include long-term work with academic, governmental, and climate institutions—developing hybrid installations, experimental publications, and participatory formats for institutional engagement, systems storytelling, and narrative practice within climate and academic contexts. Partners have included Utrecht University, Urban Futures Studio, KNMI, PBL, and the UNFCCC.

She is also one half of the artistic partnership vukšić&volkova and was previously a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie.