Bio

Irina Lotarevich’s (*1991, lives and works in Vienna) practice explores systems of organisation and control through minimal, largely abstract sculptures. Working primarily with metal, she produces works that range from sculptural objects to spatial installations, often composed through repetition, grids, and modular sequences. Her works reference systems such as financial charts, bureaucratic processes, and archival formats, translating them into ambiguous sculptural forms. In several bodies of work, she incorporates enlarged casts of her own skin, thereby positioning touch, labour, and presence against systems of abstraction and control. Lotarevich examines how such systems organise and mediate lived experience, revealing their limits and contingencies while navigating tensions between control and instability, visibility and concealment, and the boundaries of what can be rendered knowable.

Lotarevich was born in Rybinsk, Russia in 1991 and immigrated to New York City as a child. She studied at Cornell University, Hunter College, and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She currently teaches metalworking at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Solo and duo exhibitions include: Indicators, Kino Saito, Verplanck, New York (2026), Volatility, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna,  Tension Setting, GOOD BANK, Frankfurt, Settings, Silke Lindner, New York City (2024); Modular Woman, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, Vienna (2023), Refinery, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, Vienna (2020); Galvanic Couple, FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Pensive State a two-person show with Anna Schachinger, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, Vienna (2019); Schemas, Kevin Space, Vienna (2017).

Recently, her work has been included in group shows held at Kunsthalle Wien, Jennifer-See Alternate, Copenhagen (2026), Storage Museum, Düsseldorf (2025); N/A, organised by Ginny on Frederick, Seoul; Scherben, hosted by Good Weather, Chicago (2024), Belvedere 21, Vienna; Silke Lindner, New York City; Centre d’art contemporain / Passages, Troyes (2023), HALLE FÜR KUNST, Graz; Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg; Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld; MUMOK, Vienna (2022), Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (2021), among others.

Lotarevich’s work is in the permanent collections of mumok (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig), Vienna, and Museum der Moderne, Salzburg.

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