Ksenia Sandesko

IRINA DROZD

Irina Drozd was born in 1983. She attended art schools from an early age and studied at the St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design, faculty of monumental and decorative painting, and the Higher Art School in Berlin.

She has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in St. Petersburg as well as beyond, including solo exhibits in Zurich and Moscow and group exhibitions in Paris and in The Netherlands.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I explore the nature of good and evil within the human being, often turning to childhood as a special state of human existence, and to children as adults who possess a flexible consciousness and way of thinking — not yet having a fixed stance toward the surrounding world, easily accepting what comes to them from the outside.

This gives rise to a collective image of the human escapist (even if a child), who plays games deliberately escaping from reality — as if juggling meanings, roles, and statuses that emerge around such binary pairs as good–evil, innocence–passion, quiet–loud, spirit–flesh, victim–predator, desired–real.

EDUCATION

Studied at the St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design, faculty of monumental and decorative painting, and the Higher Art School in Berlin.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

2024

"Arrival at the Place of Meaning", Ekaterina Cultural Foundation (in collaboration with Dmitry Shorin). Moscow, Russia.

Interior+Design, Cover, Arguments of the week, Afisha,

Socialite, Rutube, City News, MyDecor, Art Uzel,

ArtAndYou, Art Point, Arguments of the week

"Do You See This Too?", Bison Gallery. Kazan, Russia

Bison Gallery, YouTube, Artzip, Culture.RF, Enter-media, Inde

2023

"Bedtime Stories", Gallery B9. Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

ART Uzel, Artzip, Gallery 9B

"Strange Holidays", Haze Gallery. Berlin, Germany

Haze Gallery, Art Focus Now, Artzip

2022

"Dinner with a Monster", Haze Gallery. Berlin, Germany

Haze Gallery, WideWalls

2021

"Dinner with a Monster", Sirena restaurant. Moscow, Russia

Afisha, Cabinet Delart, Sirena restaurant, Moscow Komsomolets, Architime

2020

"Collector", Museum Art4. Moscow, Russia

Art4, Artguide, Afisha, Cultobzor

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2024

NOU Museum, Barcelona, Spain

2023

"En Devenir", NikcelGallery. Paris, France

"DOM", Sitges, Spain

"I See You", the Russian-Hungarian project. Budapest, Hungary

2022

"On Chimeras, Hybrids, Cyborgs, and Humans", Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia.

Art Köln, booth of HazeGallery, Cologne, Germany.

"Monsters Under the Bed", MaxArt Foundation, Third Place, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

"New Beautiful Exhibition", Zaryadye, Moscow, Russia.

2021

"Complex Spectacle", Museum o

FAIRS

2024

Hybrid Art Fair, DOM Residence stand. Madrid, Spain

Fair 1703, Art Zip Gallery stand. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2023

Catalog Fair, ArtZip booth. Moscow Russia

"Cosmoscow" fair, ArtZip booth. Moscow, Russia

1703 fair, Art Zip Gallery stand. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2022

"Cosmoscow" fair, ArtZip booth. Moscow, Russia

Art Fair Hamburg , the stand of the HazeGallery gallery. Hamburg, Germany

Art Fair Budapest, the stand of the HazeGallery gallery. Budapest, Hungary

Art Koln, the stand of the HazeGallery gallery. Cologne, Germany

2020

Art-Market Budapest, стенд “Pacsa Art Community”. Budapest, Hungary