Irina Valkova  is an interdisciplinary artist based in Bielefeld (DE) who has perviously studied in USA, Russia and Germany and graduated from Weißensee Academy of Art in 2013 with a Master degree in Fine Arts.

 

Her work begins in dialogue between people, institutions and disciplines, and her studio practice frequently spills into curation, artistic direction, outreach and research. Irina likes collaborating with children, turning them into full-blown participants in the creative process.  

 

In her current projects the artist mediates between tangible novelty of everyday life and the abstract cyclicity of ‘big history’. She juxtaposes critical developments in human life and nature (eruptions, tsunamis, divorces, displacements), dwelling into our unredeemed urge for synchronicity with nature. 

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Her media range from painting, tufting, video and installation to choreography and performance.