NADJA KARPINSKAYA

 Nadja Karpinskaya (*1979, Russia) lives and works in Bern, CH.

Formerly a visual artist, in the last couple of years Nadja Karpinskaya has also preferred to work at the intersection of different artistic fields and disciplines: photography, performance, and sound art. Nadja consistently continues to be drawn to textiles as a medium. She often works with space, interacting with it in different ways: through installation art, land art or performance methods.

2021-2024:
MA Contemporary Arts Practice, Bern Academy of the Arts, Bern, CH.

1996-2023:
BA Visual Arts, Moscow, State Academy of the Slavic culture, Moscow, Russia.

Artist’s portfolio on Instagram: @nadja.karpinskaya

Artist Statement

Aura of a place, 2024
The typical urban views of Bern and Biel were used as material to reflect on the genre of landscape in photography. In her search for ways to describe and represent personal and public spaces, as well as places and non-places, the author gradually moves from the notion of boundaries that isolate spaces like shells to the notion of aura proposed by Walter Benjamin in his essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936).
The notion of aura in the title of this work does not have an esoteric connotation, but is intended to emphasise the author’s interest in the property of space to be open and to attract with its individuality.
Reflecting the contemporary accessibility of photography and its processing, the artist begins her project with a series of images taken with a mobile camera. But then a journey of transformation begins, involving digital processing, riso printing on paper, high resolution scanning, digital printing on textiles and working with light and space.