Dubrovskaya Irina
Artist, graphic artist, author and participant of performances, writer, author of a collection of short stories "Pentastenok", published by Lomonosov Publishers in 2019. Author of the idea, lyrics and musical compositions of the band "Ersatzmusika" (Berlin). From 2005-2011 she took part in regular performances with the band in cities in Germany, Belgium, Austria.
- In 1983, she graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Technology and studied at the Applied Arts Department.
- From 1984-1991 was a member of the Youth Association of the Union of Artists of the USSR.
- Since 1989 - participant of numerous exhibition projects both in Russia and abroad.
- From 1991- 2014 - lived in Berlin and then in the south of France.
- Since 2020 is a member of the Union of Writers of Russia.
- Since 2014, she has lived in Russia in the Tver region.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
- 2022 - Cartography of the elements, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
- 2021 - "The Travels of the Soul" in the atrium of the Drama School Theater, Moscow
- 2021 - "Cartography" showroom of the shipyard of the Association of Pomor shipbuilding, Arkhangelsk
- 2013 - "Contemplation of the World" Ultramarine gallery, Saint Petersburg
- 2010 - "Other Balls", at Spider & Mouse gallery, Moscow
- 2007 - in Kaai Theater, Brussels
- 2004 - TATAU OBSCUR, Berlin
- 2000 - "Subjective Geography" Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow
- 1998 - Petersen & Partner, Berlin
- 1995 - "Travels in an Armchair" Cafe Grün, Bremen
- 1998 - TERRA INCOGNITA, Academy of Arts, Berlin
- 1997 - "Circulation", Galerie O.F. Paris
Works of the artist are in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery, in private and corporate collections in Russia, in Western Europe and in Australia.
"She was originally a progressive artistic youth in the late Soviet Union. A superb and sophisticated professional education, a job at the megagigantic state Combine to produce ideological fetishes and superobjects, and an incredible desire to make art with a unique meaning. Art lived independently, consisting of the petals of civilization flying through a private, unique, inimitable life. Art that has its own unique voice to reproduce the deep, beautiful and far from simple experiences of a thinking person.
Finding herself in the city of musicians and artists in Berlin (Western Free Berlin) Irina turned out to be a double favorite of this amazing place. It is hard to say whether it was the success of the band Unterwasser, where Irina's art really found a voice in the band's lyrics and music, or the special tender attention of the Berlin Akademie der Kunst to the young artist from the USSR. As a result, the ability to draw beautifully and create monumental images of "state" quality, but with penetrating poetic content, brought Irina Dubrovsky not only the love of professionals, but also world fame, quite by accident. On the background of her graffiti on the surface of the Berlin Wall in 1990 Pink Floyd played their concert The Wall, which changed the world's consciousness.
Now Irina Dubrovskaya, along with her art, is engaged in humanitarian work and writing.
Irina Dubrovskaya herself no longer divides her work into genres. Irina Dubkovskaya calls her style "primitive conceptualism," but don't be fooled by the words - primitive here is basic, ancient, natural, and conceptualism is the ability to let the rules of the world through your feelings. European curators define Irina's art as "animate metaphors. And yes - it is an art of knowledge and reflection, a fantastically beautiful drawing in the spirit of the great European masters, meeting the demands of the strange pair - the soul and the brain."
Elizaveta Plavinskaya - artist, art historian, critic, member of the All-Russian Association of Art Historians, member of the International Association of Art Historians AICA, member of the Section of Book Artists of the IUCN
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