Work / No. 21
Substitution
Irina Nakhova (b. 1955) belongs to the youngest generation of Moscow Conceptualism. From her youth her mentor was the artist Viktor Pivovarov. From 1972 to 1978 she studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. In 1983 she created the first of her Rooms, installations in her own apartment that anticipated what Kabakov later called the "total installation". In 2015 she became the first woman to represent Russia with a solo exhibition in the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.