About the author

Irina Korina's installations swallow the viewers, who find themselves inside the space invented by the artist. Using household materials that are familiar to us, Korina, on the one hand, creates new worlds, ephemeral and unpredictable and on the other hand, plunges the viewer into everyday life. Korina deliberately confronts the everyday and illusion, expectations and reality. Installations and objects become a kind of portals to other dimensions, links to specific places, events and even feelings. The external carnival character of Korina's works makes them funny and naive, but this form is only a path to acceptance, behind which there is a whole range of experiences and contexts.

In 2000 she graduated from the Faculty of Scenography of the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS), the course of contemporary art "New artistic strategies" at the Institute of Contemporary Art Problems (IPAI) and completed the Valand Academy exchange program (Sweden). In 2002−2005 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Austria). Korina is three times the laureate of the Russian annual professional award in the field of contemporary art entitled "Companion" (2006, 2009, 2012). In 2008 and 2015, Irina Korina became a laureate of the State Prize in the field of contemporary art "Innovation", in 2012 — a laureate of the Terna Prize.