Inna Artemova
study of space

Inna Artemova (born in 1972 in Moscow, USSR) is a visual artist who has lived and worked in Berlin since 1998. She studied architecture at the Moscow Architectural Institute and graduated with an award from the Russian Federation.

Her work is strongly influenced by the “Paper Architects”—visionary professors from Moscow who, since the 1980s, have been designing utopian architectural projects that were never realized. The influence of these architectural utopias and her experience of migrating to Berlin—a city in constant flux—led her to an artistic practice that oscillates between a constructivist formal language and futuristic visions. More recently, she has expanded her focus from urban structures to landscapes and explores the interplay between nature and human design in an ideal future.

Artemova’s work has been shown in gallery and institutional exhibitions in Europe, Central Asia, China, Japan, and the United States. She has held solo exhibitions at venues including the Savitsky State Museum of Art in Uzbekistan, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Kyrgyzstan, the Kunstverein Hockenheim, and the DISKURS Gallery. Her works have also been shown in international group exhibitions and biennials, including the Lahore Biennale in Lahore, the Jiangyuanhai Art Museum in Shanghai, the Kampa Museum in Prague, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, and the OSTRALE Biennale O25 in Dresden.

Work Title: Study of Space

The works envision architectural futures as utopian spaces of possibility in which central questions regarding social structures and alternative ways of life are explored. Architecture appears not only as the built environment but also as a defining force that shapes thought, perception, and action. Against this backdrop, Modernism can be interpreted as a decisive turning point that established a radical separation between humanity and nature—a dualism that continues to manifest itself today in ecological and social crises. Architecture is understood here as an open, unstable process that challenges existing models of thought and opens up new perspectives for the future.