Irina Nakhova

Irina Nakhova is an independent artist who works and lives between Moscow and the US since 1989. She is a pioneer of the genre of total installation in Soviet underground art, a recipient of the Kandinsky Prize in 2013, and the first woman to have a solo exhibit in the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, in 2015. Nakhova works in painting and interactive installation that employ sculpture, digital printing, video, and audio, together with biting wit and a historical and social perspective.

Irina Nakhova will be working on the ongoing project Trip, a non-narrative video installation for multiple projections, using specially filmed video, archival and documentary footage, as well as film, video, and photographs from her personal archive. As the world is evolving into a more hostile place, her work is encompassing current wars and conflicts. The installation explores themes of individual and collective memory in relation to current political and social transformation.