IRINA NAKHOVA

Irina Nakhova's work became known to a broader audience when this year the Russian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale presented her complex work "The Green Pavilion". For the opening reception on 10 December 2015 of the group show "Suprematism Infinity: Reflections, Interpretations, Explorations" at the Columbia University | Harriman Institute in New York, Nakhova will give a talk and will show a series of video clips documenting the Green Pavilion’s "total environments".

Irina Nakhova has worked and lived between Moscow and the United States since 1992. She is the pioneer of the genre of total installation in Soviet underground art. Nakhova works concurrently in painting – creating structured environments from several superimposed planes – and installation, her most vivid works employing painting, digital printing, sculpture, and interactive video and audio. Nakhova’s installations often create and define space using formal means and material, together with biting wit and a historical and social perspective. In 2013, she won the prestigious Kandinsky Prize for Best Project of the Year.