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Arina Shabanova

I am a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Moscow. Also I co-run the brand "Galka". Work spans across painting, sculpture, collage, animation, and textiles.

In my artistic practice, I explore the theme of personal mythology. Inspired by alternative medicine methods, bodily practices, and the study of the human body and consciousness. I delve into various resource states through active interaction with nature and observation of the surrounding world. Utilizing found materials, predominantly stones, twigs, and tree trunks washed ashore, I create mediator characters, guides to the world of the inhuman, which find their place in my paintings, drawings, animations, and small sculptures. Sticks, tree branches, chestnuts easily fold into a complete figure, but there is a feeling that all this can fall apart and lie on the grass if we turn away.

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Education:
2011-2015 — British Higher School of Art and Design (Moscow).
Bachelor of Arts in Illustration, University of Hertfordshire
Feb-March 2022 — Pavel Grishin’s New Painting School

Solo Exhibition:
2024 Arina Shabanova at Palaty Moscow, Sample, Palaty na Lva Tolstogo

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2025 Quiet hour, Lime Gallery, Sample, Moscow
2025 Outward, Cave, Borsch Gallery, Moscow
2023 The ground is slipping from under your feet, Hleb Dom, Moscow
2022 Blazar, Museum of Moscow, Moscow
2022 3.Art-Space-Hooping, Studios at Pokrovka, Moscow
2021 Green Line, Moscow Transport Museum, Moscow
2015 Soroka storyline exhibition, Fumetto, Luzern
2015 Work mode, BHSAD, Moscow
2013 The Body Machine, BHSAD, Moscow
2012 Art-Park, Flacon, Moscow
2012 The Secret 7”, NOW Gallery, London

Press:
2024 It’sNiceThat
2022 The Blueprint
2019 It’sNiceThat

Email:
a.shabanova@yahoo.com