Irina Petrakova

Born in Siberia
Based in Moscow

Education:

2010 — 2011 The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Moscow, Russia
2011 — 2013 BAZA, Anatoly Osmolovsky’s Institute, Moscow, Russia
2015 Salzburg Summer Academy, Sculpture class of Nora Schulz, Austria

Selected exhibitions:

Solo:

2018 ‘Come and Hide Here’ Curated by Anatoly Osmolovsky Gallery Iragui, Moscow, Russia
2016 ‘EXPLAIN IT TO THE IGNORANTS’ curated by Michael Klimin, Dmitry Skopintsev Artist run space “Krasnii”
2016 ‘Apotrebin’
Gallery Iragui, Moscow, Russia
2015 ’GunPowder’ Artist-in-Residence
ZARYA CCA, Vladivostok, Russia

Group:

2019 ‘Heart Line Time Zone’ Curated by Sveta Teylor RUARTS Gallery, Moscow
2018 ‘Boa constrictor eating an elephant’ Curated by Nika Komarova, 25Kadr Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018 ‘Strange, lost, unseen, useless’, Curated by Anatoly Osmolovsky, Winzavod, Centre for contemporary art, Moscow, Russia
2018 ‘After us, just the ashes’ curated by Michael Klimin Richter Gallery, Moscow
2017 ‘Survival Kit’, Curated by Nikolay Alutin, Naz Cuguoğlu, Serhat Cacekli Space Debris Art, Istanbul, Turkey, The exhibition is part the 15th Istanbul Biennale and Cultural Transit Foundation, Ekaterinburg, Russia, In the framework of the 4th Ural Industrial Biennial
2017 ‘CEMETERY DIALOGUE’ Curated by Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016 ‘SOBAKA KOST’ ZARYLA’ Curated by Julya Yusma, New Wing of Gogol House, Moscow, Russia
2016 ‘The raw and the cooked’ Curated by Anatoly Osmolovsky, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2015 ‘...hurrah! Sculpture!’, Curated by Anatoly Osmolovsky, Winzavod, Centre for contemporary art, Moscow, Russia
2015 ‘Dirty Linen’, Curated by Dmitry Skopintsev Artist-run space RED, Moscow
2015 ‘Bomb’ Curated by Boris Klushnikov Artist-run space RED, Moscow
2014 ‘Museum looks’, Curated by Alexey Maslyaev , Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2014 ‘The eternally living corpse’, Curated by Anatoly Osmolovsky , Winzavod, Centre for contemporary art, Moscow, Russia
2014 do it Moscow, Curated by Snejana Krasteva, Anastasia Mityushina Garage, Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2014 ‘In this story there are too many/ none contradictions’ Curated by Lily Kovyrshina, Alexey Maslyaev Video Art program by MMOMA (Moscow Museum of Modern Art) of VIII Andrey Tarkovsky International Film Festival “The Mirror”
2014 ‘Do you have the sixth sense, or what? Carte-blanche to Constantin Bokhorov’, Curated by Konstantin Bokhorov Gallery Iragui, Moscow, Russia
2013 ‘VOT!’, Curated by Anatoly Osmolovsky The Museum of Moscow, Russia
2013 ‘Our Thing’, Curated by Anatoly Osmolovsky, Konstantin Bokhorov PROEKT_FABRIKA, Moscow, Russia
2013 ‘Night of Museums’, The State Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val, Moscow, Russia
2012 ‘Haunted Moscow’ (Moscow pavilion, 9th Shanghai Biennale) Curated by Nikolai Molok, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
2012 ‘Ally/Foe. Collective comprehension of the borders’ (Special project of the 3rd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art) Curated by Vita Dumchyute, PROEKT_FABRIKA, Moscow, Russia
2011 ‘From the Realm of the Practical Knowledge’, (Special project of the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art) Curated by Stas Shuripa, GMG gallery, Moscow, Russia
2011 ‘Cartographies of the Possible’ (ICA student exhibition), Curated by Stas Shuripa, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia

Art Fairs:

Draw Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2019
Cosmoscow, Moscow, 2019
NADA Art Fair, Maiami, 2019

Projects:

Co-founder and art director of artist-run space “Krasnii” (Центр “Красный”), Moscow, 2015-2018 The space was nominated for a state award in contemporary art “Innovation” (“Инновация”) in 2015. Nomination “Project of the year”. There were held over 50 exhibitions at “Krasnii” during its existence.

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Collections:

Ruarts fondation
ZARYA CCA
Gallery Iragui
Privet collections

Publications:

Rigas Laiks, spring, 2019
Dialogue of arts Magazine #5, 2018
Moscow at magazine #101, 2017
Ryan Trecartin: Yet Paperback — April 28, 2015