Irina Riznychok

Irina Riznychok is an adjunct researcher at Constructor University Bremen. She received her Master’s degree in History of Art from the Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia, and worked as a curator at the Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts from 2010 to 2023. In 2023, she was awarded a Hans Koschnick Special Scholarship at the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen (FSO) to complete her PhD thesis “The Third Wave of Russian Artistic Emigration to New York: Strategies, Exhibitions and Reception” (submitted in 2024). Her current postdoc project seeks to re-situate the legacy of artists from the Ural within the history of Russian/Soviet art and the neo-avant-garde histories.