Svetlana Spirina
Born 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
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Education
2012
Ural State University, philosophical department

2018
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, photography studio
Selected exibitions
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

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