IRA KONYUKHOVA
contact: kair98@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2014–17 Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (HFG) Karlsruhe, Media Art Department
2014 Iceland Academy of Fine Arts, Reykjavik, time-based art department
2011–14 Kunsthochschule Mainz at University Mainz,
2007 Master’s degree in Physics, Moscow State University of Telecommunication and Informatics
PRIZES
2017–18 BS Projects Bursary, Braunschweig
2014 Film and Media artist promotion prize by Rhineland-Palatinate
2014 Erasmus Stipendium / Iceland Academy of Arts, Fine Arts Department
2013–14 Deutschland Stipendium
TALKS and PUBLICATIONS
2018 Artist Talk at (de)Coding Bodies in Kunstverein Hildesheim
2018 »All The Things She Said« T.a.t.u und die LGBT-Community in Russland
Pop-Zeitschrift, Universität Siegen
2018 Welcome Talk at HBK Braunschweig
2017 “All the Things She Said: Sexuelle Identitäten in Russland Anfang 2000er und deren Pop-Äquivalenten.” Lecture in Luis Leu
2017 Chorus Magazine, August (Kapitalisierung von Kunstvermittlung); September (Some thoughts on Documenta-14)
2016 Metropol X: St- Petersburg, KIT-Presse, Zusammenfassung
2015 Guest Lecture „Politics and public Art in St. Petersburg” at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Architecture Department (DE)
2015 Artist Talk at SCOPE Sessions, Berlin
SOLO and DUO EXHIBITIONS
2018 DEAR CONSTRUCTION at Turba e.V. Hannover
2018 I WILL DIE IF YOU WONT COME at Kunstverein Letschenbach, Karlsruhe
2017 SOFT CORE at Luis Leu, Karlsruhe (with Britta Kirst)
2016 Ghetto Function at Ettlingerstr. 35, Karlsruhe
2016 GenderAdjustment at Off//Foto Festival Mannheim (with Britta Kirst)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS and SCREENINGS
//2018
RADIALE, Ira Konyukhova&Myriam Holme in Stiftskirche Sunnisheim, Sinsheim
LONG WAY 2GO, Open Studios at BS Projects Residency, Braunschweig
//2017
„This is not an Exhibition„ at HFG Karlsruhe to 25 years jubilee
“CIAO”, Graduates exhibition at HFG/ZKM, Karlsruhe
“Garden” Off//Foto Festival Ludwigshafen
//2016
Biennale Athens (GR)
Luminale Frankfurt (unangemeldeter Beitrag)
DocLisboa Film Festival, Lissabon (PR)
AntiMatter Video Art Festival, Victoria (CA)
Teneriffa Espacio del Arte, Espacio Enter Festival, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (SP)
//2015
„I‘d blush if I could“, HFG Karlsruhe
Go Public, Ogu Ginza Street, Tokyo (JP)
Alter Shlachthof, Karlsruhe
Filmforum, Kinemathek Karlsruhe
Lange Nacht der Museen, GRAF+ZYX Foundation, Neulengbach (AT),
visionXsound festival, GRAF+ZYX Foundation, Neulengbach (AT),
KAMUNA, Karlsruhe
„Annäherung an Schinken„ Museum Heylshof, Worms
B-Seite Festival, Mannheim
Amplitude Crete, Projection Room at ERG, Brussels (BE)
//2014
Winterfestival HFG, Karlsruhe
Kaffistofa Gallery, Reykjavik (IS)
Exground Filmfestival, Wiesbaden
//2012
GoEast Film Festival, Wiesbaden