Artist Profile

Alina Brovina is a Moscow-based visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice explores the relationships between ecology, memory, corporeality and the social structures that shape everyday life. Working across sculpture, installation, photography, objects, plants and scientific data, she investigates enclosed and lived environments—from neighbourhood courtyards and family archives to communities and workplaces—combining autobiographical narratives with research-driven approaches. Drawing on themes of motherhood, environmental change and the legacy of Soviet science, Brovina creates works that examine the intersections of the personal and the political, the living and the constructed. Her projects often engage with ecological systems and human intervention in the natural world, as seen in works such as Palus Florens, which explored urban ecosystems through sculptural reconstructions of local flowerbeds and soil-based research. Originally trained in scenography and theatre design, Brovina brings a strong spatial sensibility to her installations, creating environments that invite reflection on care, vulnerability, collective memory and the entanglement of human and non-human life.