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Evgenia Emets is an international artist and poet working across drawing, calligraphy, language, ecology, film, artist’s books, performance and large-scale land-based works. Her visual practice is rooted in the relationship between human culture and the living world, exploring forests as places of memory, intelligence, transformation and long-term continuity. Her drawings and calligraphic works emerge from direct encounters with forests, seeds, landscapes and ecological processes. Through line, gesture, text and organic form, she creates works that do not simply represent nature, but translate its hidden rhythms, structures and relational intelligence into visual language. Since 2018, Evgenia has been developing Eternal Forest Global, an expanded artistic and ecological body of work creating forest sanctuaries through art, biodiversity and community stewardship. Recent exhibitions and projects include Fossilidades, REVELAR, CAC, Torres Vedras, Portugal, 2026; Eternal Forest in Faia Brava, Portugal, 2025; Eternal Forest Grove, Encontros da Primavera, Picote, Portugal, 2025; Gifts From the Sentient Forest, Rovaniemi, Finland, 2025; ALTER ECO, The Arsenal Gallery, New York City, USA, 2024; Eternal Forest, Whitcomb’s Gallery, Split Rock Arts, Adirondacks, USA, 2024; Urban Nature, Chicago Sonic Pavilion, USA, 2024; Rewilding Time, Hall of Biodiversity, Ciência Viva Center, Porto, Portugal, 2024; Forest Time, Estufa Fria and Monsanto Forest Park, Lisbon, Portugal, 2023; and works at the National Museum of Natural History and Science and Botanical Garden of Lisbon, Portugal, 2022. In 2026, her work was shortlisted for the Blue Sky Global Arts Prize Innovation Awards for innovation in the arts. Selected awards and grants include the Municipality of Lisbon Grant, 2022, 2023 and 2024; CiCLO Sustentar, Portugal, 2020; Arts Council England support for KIMA: Noise, Analema Group, Tate Exchange / Tate Modern, UK, 2019; and the CineEco Seia Regional Award for Eternal Forest, Portugal, 2018. Evgenia’s visual works and artists’ books are in museums (Stella Art Foundation and MOMA, Russia), libraries (National Poetry Library, London, British Library and Gulbenkian Art Library) and private collections in the UK, Europe, Japan and Russia. http:/www.evgeniaemets.vision/ and https://eternalforest.earth/ CV Education Solo shows Group shows and projects Residencies Recognition, Awards & Grants Selected publications Collections British Library, UK; Gulbenkian Art Library, Portugal; National Poetry Library, UK; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Stella Art Foundation, Moscow; Private collections in Russia, UK, Europe and Japan Networks, Projects and Boards: Eternal Forest https://www.eternalforest.earth/ - Founder and Artistic Director Networking with the Plants in the Anthropocene https://networkingwithplants.org/ - Steering Committee Sentient Forest two-year cohort https://www.sentientforestproject.com/cohort Terra Agora Foundation https://www.linkedin.com/company/terra-agora/ - Curator Board Evgenia Emets Bio/CV
2007-2008 MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London 2024 Rewilding Time, Galleria da Biodiversidade, Porto, Portugal Plant Time, an art experience and installation, ping! Galleria Municipal do Porto 2023 Forest Time, Estufa Fria and Monsanto Forest Park, Lisbon, Portugal 2022 Eternal Forest, National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon, Portugal In My Voice, House of Kin, Lisbon, Portugal 2020 Say My Name and I Will Tell You My Story, Espaço Espelho D'Água, the Cera Project, Lisbon, Portugal 2019 Eternal Forest, King’s College London, UK 2018 Eternal Forest, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal Eternal Forest, Casa do Artista, Gois, Portugal 2017 A Slice of Time, By Other Means, London, UK 2016 Being Silence, Crypt Gallery, London, UK 2008 108, Contemporary Russian Art Festival, Museum of Asian Art, Corfu, Greece 2006 108, Stella Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2003 Returning, Art Play Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2026 Fossilidades, REVELAR, CAC, Torres Vedras, Portugal 2025 Eternal Forest in Faia Brava, Portugal Eternal Forest Grove, Encontros da Primavera, Picote, Portugal Gifts From the Sentient Forest, Rovaniemi, Finland 2024 ALTER ECO, The Arsenal Gallery, New York City, USA Eternal Forest, Whitcomb’s Gallery, Split Rock Arts, Adirondacks, USA Urban Nature, Chicago Sonic Pavilion, US Sentient Forest, two-year creative cohort, Finland (2024-2025) Monocultures: Eco-cultural perspectives conference, Forest Time performance, Coimbra, Portugal 2023 Pela Terra, Portugal; ChromaFlora, Estufa Fria, Lisbon, Portugal 2022 In My Voice, Bienal de Cerveira, Portugal 2021 Bienal de Coruche, Coruche, Portugal Roots & Seeds, Plant biodiversity and resilience, Quo Artis, Barcelona, Spain Ci.ClO Sustentar Bienale de Fotografia, Mertola, Evora, Figueira da Foz, Loulé, Setúbal, Porto, Portugal and Lodz, Poland 2020 Sem Limites, Forum Maia, Portugal KIMA: Colour, NGX, National Gallery, London, UK 2019 Eternal Forest, UCL, Portuguese Embassy UK, Eternal Forest, Evolving the Forest Symposium, UK Eternal Forest, PEA2019 book, Serralves, Porto, Portugal Eternal Forest, Bienal de Coruche, Portugal KIMA: Noise, Tate Exchange Tate Modern, London, UK KIMA: Voice, RCA, Imperial College, Barbican, London, UK; 2018 Eternal Forest, Casa do Artista, Góis, Portugal Eternal Forest, Biblioteca Nacional Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal Minuteglass, 101.Mediapoetry, Future Unhuman, St. Petersburg, Russia KIMA: Voice, By Other Means, London, UK KIMA: Voice, V&A Digital Futures, London, UK 2017 Line is just a line, Shiro Oni, Onishi, Japan The Wave, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK 2016 The Wave, L’abri Fondation, Geneva, Switzerland The Wheel, Roundhouse, London, UK I AM, Baltic Art Form, London, UK 2015 Kima, Union Chapel; Kinetica Art Fair, London, UK 2014 Echo of Now, Manezh, Moscow, Russia Kima, ICT & Art Connect, London, UK 2013 Kima, Kinetica Art Fair, London, UK 2012 Khaos, Kinetica Art Fair, London, UK 2011 Root A, The Return: The House of the Nobleman, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK Towards a Quiet Centre, Pushkin House, London, UK 2010 A-Field, Market Estate Project, London, UK The Echo of Now, Pingyao, Photography Festival, China Manta Ray, Kinetica Art Fair, London, UK The Echo of Now, Colomb Art Gallery, London, UK 2009 The Echo of Now, Empire Gallery, London, UK Subjective Visions, 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece 2008 The Echo of Now, Bargehouse, London, UK The Elements of Light, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece The Elements of Light, Art Space 8, Istanbul Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey Manta Ray, Central Saint Martins, London, UK 2007 Okean X Forms, Centre for Contemporary Art, M’ARS, Moscow, Russia 2006 108, Joint Adventure, Russian Culture Center, Vienna, Austria 2005 New Territories. ARCO, Madrid, Spain We, New Manege, Moscow, Russia 2003 Returning. Art Play Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2002 Sound of Nothing. Izvestia Exhibitions Hall, Moscow, Russia 2021-2023 Polo Cultural Gaivotas, Monsanto, Portugal 2020 CiClo Sustentar, Mertola, Portugal 2019 Eternal Forest, Bienal de Coruche, Coruche, Portugal 2018 Eternal Forest. Raizvanguarda, Portugal 2017 A Slice of Time. By Other Means, London, UK Paradise Air, Matsudo, Japan Shiro Oni, Onishi, Japan 2016 Being Silence, Crypt Gallery, London, UK 2006 Oros Kharasson residency, Syros, Greece 2026 Blue Sky Global Arts Prize Innovation Awards, shortlisted 2022-2024 Lisbon Municipality Grant, Portugal 2020 CiClo Sustentar, Portugal 2019 Arts Council, KIMA: Noise, Analema Group, Tate Exchange/Tate Modern, UK 2018 CineEco Seia, Regional Award for Eternal Forest film, Portugal 2016 Arts Council, KIMA, Analema Group, Roundhouse, UK 2014 Arts Council, KIMA, Analema Group, Union Chapel, UK 2006 Innovation Prize in Contemporary Arts, NCCA, Russia 2023 PEA2023, Portugal 2022 Eternal Forest book, Portugal 2020 Mauvaises Herbes, Artistes&Associés, France PEA 2020, Portugal SOS Arte exhibition Sem Limites, Forum Maia catalogue, Portugal 2019 Eternal Forest Manifesto, Artist’s book, Portugal PEA 2019, Portugal 2018 Eternal Forest, Artist’s book, Portugal 2016 Do we have a common language? Artist book, London, UK 2008 Exhibition catalogue, Elements of Light, Stella Art Foundation, Russia 77, Catalogue of Collection of Stella Art Foundation, Russia 2006 Exhibition catalogue, 108, Stella Art Foundation, Russia
