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Svetlana Spirina
1990, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Performance, video, installation
Svetlana Spirina is one of the artists representing the new generation of the performance
artists of the Ural art scene. Her practice covers photography, video and performance art, as
well as script writing for performance stagings. Body presence, movement and poetic speech
are the main tools that Svetlana uses to build up her pieces.
Everyday routine appears as a swirling process to Svetlana, a never-ending formation, a process of non-fixed, renewable dialogue. The central theme in her work is the study of our
everyday communication contours: between humans and, especially, humans and other than humans.
Main materials she works with are living forms of intimacy and attachment, originating from everyday situations and human habitual space.
Selected works
Performance
Video
6 hours of melting snow / 2013
Video | HD 1920 x 1080 | aspect ratio 16:9 | colour | no sound | 31'00"
We, Who Never Arrive / 2015
Video | HD 1920 x 1080 | aspect ratio 16:9 | colour | 08'17"

In collaboration with Yozhi Yazooma. Shooting and editing: Evgeny Polushin
I`m where the silence / 2013
Performances for video, texts
I`m where the wind is / 2013
Performances for video, texts
45 stages of falling meteorite / 2016
Documentation of the performance; Digital print on paper, 120 x 383 cm, three pieces
Public-art / 2016
Documentation of the performance
35 hours of watching sky / 2015
Performance documentation, 35 analogue photographs
Work for deletion of the emptiness / 2013
Performance, text
Left
Right
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Exhibitions
Education
2012
  • Ural State University, philosophical department
2018
  • Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, photography studio
Selected exhibitions
2018
  • MA Graduation show, Studio Photography UMPRUM (Prague, Czech Republic)
  • Performensk, Korpus Culture Center (Minsk, Belarus)
2017
  • Artsemestr Summer, UMPRUM Photography Studio (Prague, Czech Republic)
  • Taming the Void, NCCA (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
  • Work Never Ends, Special project of the 4th Ural Biennale of Contemporary Art (Tyumen, Russia)
  • Artsemestr Winter, UMPRUM Photography Studio (Prague, Czech Republic)
2016
  • Observatory, Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Arkhyz, Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia)
  • 3 ON 3 PROSTRANTSVO, Gallery Here at Taganka (Moscow, Russia)
  • Artsemestr Winter, UMPRUM Photography Studio (Prague, Czech Republic)
2015
  • Identification Piece, Tranzitdisplay (Prague, Czech Republic)
  • 35 Hours of Watching Sky, Gallery SAM83 (Steflie, Czech Republic)
  • Horizontal, Guslitsa Art Residensy, Parallel Program of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia)
2014
  • Thickness, Perm Art Residence (Perm, Russia)
  • Russia, My Terra, Nordland Kultursenter (Budo, Norway)
  • Cases, Iragui Gallery, Parallel Project of the 4-th Moscow Biennale of Young Art (Moscow, Russia)
  • Closer, Sweater Gallery (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
  • Cold, Sweater Gallery (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
2013
  • The Body of Mine, Apartment Exhibition (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
  • Now I Think, I Know Why Beautiful Things Are Difficult (series of performances) (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
  • С`est La Vie, Atelier Suterena (Vienna, Austria)
  • С`est La Vie, Media library USU (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
Foundation artists
Elena Slobtseva
Endless Attractions Museum
Alisa Gorshenina
Ivan Snigirev
Udmurt
Fyodor Telkov
Makar Krasil
Victor Davydov
Sasha Saltanova
Sergei Laushkin
Olga Subbotina, Mikhail Pavlyukevich
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