Elena Avinova

Елена Авинова

Was born in 1974 in Kirov (Vyatka)

2002-2003 - Russian Academic Youth Theatre (RAMT, Moscow) Internship in stage art with S. Benedictov

1997–2002 – Saint-Petersburg Academy of Stage Arts Department of Stage Design and Stage Technology, majored as theatre art director (Saint-Petersburg)

1992–1997 – Vyatka Art College, oil painting (Kirov)

Major employment:
since 2015 – the art-director of Creative Writing School, Moscow
since 2014 – internship in the international residence Cite Des Artes, Paris

since 2008 – Member of Artist's Union of Russia
2003– 2014 – chief artist at Kirov Theatre on Spasskaya (http://ekvus-kirov.ru/) Over 40 performances in the theatres of Saint-Petersbug, Kirov, Tula, Saratov, Ufa, Kurgan and Perm.

2009 – nomination of the theatre competition Gold Mask So yes
2002–2013 – winner of the theatre competition Success of the Year (the annual competition of the Kirov Union of Theatre Professionals) for the best stage design, for the following performances Cyrano de Bergerac, Romeo and Juliet, Uncle Vania, Orpheus and Eurydice, The Dog in the Manger, Naive. Super, Over the Cuckoos Nest and Well, Yeah.

Publications:

2021 – graphic novel Lav road (together with Natalia Osipova) published in the Pashnya magazine (Moscow)
2020 – graphic novel The Grand Inquisitor (together with Natalia Osipova) published in the Plough magazine (New York)
2019 – graphic novel One Day in the Life of Leo Tolstoy published in the CWS, Moscow

Production design and art direction:

2020 – animation of the official video Brian Finnegan Flow, In The Year Of Wu Wei
2016 – the official video for the Aquarium music band The Dog Waltz
2011 – the official video for the Aquarium music band Holy Cow March

Selected professional experience:
   •   2020 – video comic Random number generator
   •   2019 – exhibition Creative Writing – Cool! in the exhibition hall of Turgenev Library (Moscow)
   •   2018 – Open Studio Tulips and Oysters (together with Natalia Osipova) in art residency CITE DES ARTS (Paris)
   •   2018 – Open Studio The Queen of Spades (together with Natalia Osipova) in art residency CITE DES ARTS (Paris)
   •   2018 – exhibition Paris – Manchester: passing by in the Vyatka Art Museum
   •   2017 – Open Studio Passing by (together with Natalia Osipova) in art residency CITE DES ARTS (Paris)
   •   2017 – exhibition Akaky is our superman in the gallery New wing of the house of Gogol (Moscow) http://www.domgogolya.ru/new_wing/5383/
   •   2016 – exhibition «Lav Road Stories» (together with Natalia Osipova) in art residency CITE DES ARTS (Paris)
   •   2015 – LAV ABC project in the Vyatka Art Museum, in the exhibition hall of Turgenev Library (Moscow)

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