Irina Korina graduated from Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in 2000 (faculty of stage design). She also studied at Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow, and in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. As a stage designer, she collaborated with many Russian theaters, from the beginning of 2000-s started working in cinema. In 2009 Korina was one of participants of the exhibition in the Russian pavilion at 53rd Venice biennale. In 2017 her installation was presented within the main project of the 57th Venice biennale. Her solo shows were presented in GRAD foundation, London, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, within Steirischer Herbst festival, Graz, Austria. Korina took part in numerous group shows, including M HKA museum, Antwerp, Saatchi gallery, London, Kühlhaus space, Berlin. She was awarded The Debut Prize for drama works in 1999 and also the Soratnik All-Russian Contemporary Art Prize three times in 2006, 2009, and 2012. In 2008 and 2015 Korina became a laureate of the Innovation Prize, the All-Russian State Competition in Contemporary Art, and was also awarded the Terna Award for Contemporary Art in 2012.
Solo Exhibitions
2020
An Exhibition with this Title Already Exists, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019
Like Share, Contemporary Art Space, Batumi, Georgia
2018
Articulus et Bahila, in collaboration with Svetlana Shuvaeva, Smena Contemporary Culture Center, Kazan, Russia
Ogogo, the Flying Inn, Moscow, Russia
Schnee von gestern (Yesterday’s Snow), part of Steirischer Herbst festival, Graz, Austria
Ultimate Unknown, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Not Just about You, Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2017
The Tail Wags the Comet, Atrium of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2016
Destined to be Happy, GRAD, London, UK
Humiliated and Elated, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1 2 3 Everything is Wrong, Alkovi, Helsinki, Finland
Temporary Phenomena, ART4 Museum, Moscow, Russia
2015
Magic Mountain, in collaboration with Svetlana Shuvaeva, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Art Experiment. In the Studio, Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2014
Refrain, Stella Art Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Celebration, Special project for Manifesta 10, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Winter Crops, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Scales of Desire, PLATO, Ostrava, Czech Republic
2013
Chapel, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), New York, USA
Armed with a Dream installation, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow, Russia
2012
Burst out in Fires!, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Demonstrative Behavior, Scaramouche, New York, USA
2010
Show Process, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009
Comma13, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
Installationen, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Installations, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2008
Invisible Distinction, Art-Strelka Projects Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Night Charge, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2007
:-)), XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006
Positive Vibrations, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Top Model, Contemporary City Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2005
Station Keeper, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Acceleration, Dom Culture Center, Moscow, Russia
External Unit, ABC Gallery, Art-Strelka, Moscow, Russia
2004
Back to the future, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2003
Urangst, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Artists Portrait in Youth, Goethe-Institut, Moscow, Russia
2001
Camouflage, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2000
29 Transformations, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Group shows
2021
Postcards from Artists. Winter, The Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Force Majeure, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Пространство / Space, Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Game of Cities, Voznesensky Cultural Center, waiting room “Comfort” at Kazansky station, Moscow, Russia
Zverev Art Prize, Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Kandinsky Prize 2021, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Women Artists. One and The Other, Arts Wanted, Gilyarovsky Center, Moscow, Russia
Archstoyanie, Nikola-Lenivets village, Kaluga region, Russia
De Profundis. An exhibition of apposite art, Golubitskoe Art Foundation, Taman Peninsula, Krasnodar Region, Russia
Osmos, Electromuseum, Moscow, Russia
Diversity United, Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, Germany
Moskvich’s dream, Moscow Transport Museum, pavilion №26, VDNKh, Moscow, Russia
It Will Work if You Close Your Eyes, ART4 Museum, Moscow, Russia
2020
Museum of Self-Isolation, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
15 Minutes Break. Part 1, All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
CHA SHCHA. Exhibition in the Woods (The Thicket), PIRogovo resort, Moscow area, Russia
Wondercraft, the.DOT.home, Moscow, Russia
CHA SHCHA. Exhibition in the Woods (The Thicket), JART Gallery booth, Cosmoscow, Moscow, Russia
Flowers for Doctors, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
The Russian Fairy Tale, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019
The City of Tomorrow, New Tretyakov gallery, Moscow, Russia
Recycle or Die, GUM-Red-Line, Moscow, Russia
The non-conformists. The Story of a Russian Collection, Montpellier Contemporain, Montpellier, France
XIII Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale “Negotiatiors”, Museum Centre “Ploschad’ Mira”, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
The Lookout festival, Fort Konstantin, Kronstadt, Russia
Heart Line Time Zone, RuArts gallery, Moscow, Russia
GUM-Red-Line, GUM, Moscow, Russia
sans (t)rêve et sans merci, Cube, Moscow, Russia
2018
Archstoyanie for kids, Nikola-Lenivets village, Kaluga region, Russia
Everything is not What It Seems to be, in the framework of Bazhov-Fest, NCCA, Ekaterinburg
Youth ‘Uniforms’ of Moscow, Museum of Moscow, Russia
The Art of the 2000s, The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Textile, New Wing of Gogol House, Moscow, Russia
It’s Okay to Change Your Mind!, MAMbo, Bologna, Italy
2017
Anonymous Men, CCI Fabrika, Moscow, Russia
Scary Tale, Ground Peschanaya, Moscow, Russia
Decorating the City, Museum of Moscow, Russia
The Work Never Stops, special project of the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Tyumen Museum and Education Association, Russia
The Return of Memory, HOME MCR, Manchester, Great Britain
Reconciliation Here, gallery ZDES na Taganke, Moscow, Russia
Viva Arte Viva, Main project of the 57th Venice Biennale “Viva Arte Viva”, Arsenale, Venice, Italy
Space Force Construction, V-A-C Foundation, Palazzo delle Zattere, Venice, Italy
The Travellers: Voyage and Migration in New Art from Central and Eastern Europe, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
Inter Canem et Lupum, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
By White Thread, Peresvetov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Kandinsky Prize 2017, Moscow Russia
Simple Feelings, Arsenale, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia
2016
Observatory, the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science, North Caucasus, Russia
Archstoyanie festival, Nikola-Lenivets village, Kaluga region, Russia
XL Projects, Cosmoscow, Moscow, Russia
2015
Balagan!!!, KühlhausBerlin, Berlin, Germany
Hope, special project of the 6th Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
Her, CCA ZARYA, Vladivostok, Russia
Post Pop: East meets West, Saatchi gallery, London, UK
2014
The Kandinsky prize 2014, Moscow, Russia
Art Prospect 2014 — festival of contemporary art, St. Petersburg, Russia
Moscow. Barocco, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Beauty of Disorder, GVZ Gallery, Belyaevo, Moscow, Russia
Above, Moscow Museum, Moscow, Russia
Manifesta 10, parallel programme, St. Petersburg, Russia
Prudential Eye Award, Suntec-City, Singapore
2013
Modern Art Museum: The Department of Labour and Employment, special project for the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Lost in Translation, Venice Biennale with the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Venice, Italy
Moscow Mythology, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Spaces of Exception, ARTPLAY Design Center, 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
GOSZAKAZ, Center for contemporary art Winzavod and Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Archstoyanie, festival of landscape objects, Nikola-Lenivets park, Nikola-Lenivets village, Russia
2012
Gaiety Is The Most Outstanding Feature Of the Soviet Union, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
In an Absolute Disorder: Contemporary Russian Art, The Kandinsky Prize (2007–2012), Barcelona, Spain
Futurologia, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture, Nantes, France
Angry Birds, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
The False Calculations Presidium, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2nd Ural Industrial Biennial of contemporary art, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Generation P, RussenKo Festival, Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, France
2011
Svoboda, Spazio Carbonese, Bologna, Italy
Materia prima. Russkoe Bednoe — “l’arte povera” in Russia, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Necessary Art, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
ORTung, Salzburg Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
Russian Landscapes, Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Afghan-Kuzminki, Human Oratorio, Theatre.Doc at the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
The Kandinsky Prize 2011, Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia
Infusion, Laboratoria Art & Science Space, Moscow, Russia
2010
Futurologia Russian utopias, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
Nevermore, Mac-Val Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitry sur Seine, France
2009
Russian Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Sketches of installations, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
New old cold war, Red October Factory, Moscow, Russia
Urban Stories, 10th Baltic Triennial, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Invasion: Evasion, Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow, Russia
2008
Russian Poor, River Terminal, Perm, Russia
News, Gallery Municipal Exhibition Center, Izhevsk, Russia
Fast Art 24, Winzavod Moscow Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia
U-Turn, Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Carlsberg Brewery, Kopenhagen, Denmark
2007
Arch-Town, Arch Shargorod Festival, Shargorod, Ukraine
Sots Art, Political Art in Russia, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Urban formalism, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
I Believe, 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Winzavod Moscow Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow, Russia
Witnesses of the Impossible, Moscow Art Center, Moscow, Russia
Progressive Nostalgia, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
2006
Modus R. Russian Formalism today, Newton Building, Miami, USA
2005
Angels of History, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Europalia Festival, Brussels, Belgium
Dialectics of Hope, main project of the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lenin Museum, Moscow, Russia
2003
Horizons of Reality, M HKA museum, Antwerp, Belgium
2002
Photobiennale, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow, Russia
2001
Dream team, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2000
Photobiennale, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Valand Spring Exhibition, Valand Academy of Fine Arts, Gothenburg, Sweden
1999
Vinyl Bones, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Theme: Moscow, ICA, Moscow, Russia
The Last Generation, Spider & Mouse Gallery, Moscow, Russia