Ekaterina Koposova

Ekaterina Koposova studies the political instrumentalization of art in early modern Europe, with a focus on the expression of territorial control and sovereign authority over landscapes. Her dissertation examines the visual history of the Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678) as an intermedial and transregional phenomenon.

Ekaterina is one of four student curators of the exhibition Thinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale (Yale University Art Gallery and Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 2023). The show offers a new approach to seventeenth-century Dutch art by emphasizing how the smallness or intricacy of a work of art encouraged slow, intimate, and contemplative engagement on the part of original audiences. Her contribution to the accompanying brochure, “Miniaturizing the Distant,” explores the strategies adopted by Dutch artists to capture the experience of a large space on a small surface.

After graduating summa cum laude from Emory University in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts in Art History, Ekaterina received the prestigious Bobby Jones Scholarship to pursue a Master of Letters in Art History at the University of St. Andrews, which she completed in 2018.