DAGNINI
is
an artist based in London, England.
She graduated from Saint-Petersburg State Academy of Theatre Arts and Pro Arte School for Young Artists.
Dagnini is currently represented by Fragment gallery (NY, USA).

She works with dynamic performances, creates objects, installations, paintings and graphics. The main theme of her research is 'glitches' both in digital space and in reality. The breach of the peace and current everyday routine are the necessary condition for her work.

AWARDS
2020
The State Award in Contemporary Art Innovation 2020, winner in the New Generation category (Russia)
BIENNALE
2020
Vll Moscow International Biennale For Young Art. Main program. Digital project, performances
2018
 lll Biennal "Artmossphere". CAC Vinzavod. Installation
2016
Special program of Moscow Biennal for Young Art. Artplay. Performances, documentation
RESIDENCIES
2022
Ria Keburia Art Foundation. Ipureland Artists in Exile Program
2021
Golubitskoe Art Foundation
2021
VirtualSPAR Residency. Supported by Pro Helvetia
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS AND PERFORMANCES
2023
IDK HOW TO DESCRIBE IT BUT THE PEAS ARE UPSIDE DOWN. Solo show. Smallville Gallery. Neuchatel, Switzerland
2021
The Peeing Boy. Performance. Central Manezh. Cosmoscow art fair. Part of The Garage Museum Program
2020
The Entrance Group. Performance, installation. Museum of Moscow. Blazar International Art Fair
2019
Performance Regarding the Venice Issue. The General Staff Building (Hermitage Museum). The 8th Cultural Forum
2019
Disk (D:). Solo show. Fragment gallery
2019
Peep show 4.0. Performance. Gostiny Dvor. Cosmoscow International Art fair
2018
Devitsa pod oknom. Solo show. Auditorium gallery
2018
Peep show 3.0. Performance. 21 Gallery, CCA Winzavod
2016
Private Performances. Series of performances in various locations
2015
Crime scene – dear Natasha. Solo show. Nepokorennye gallery
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
FOLLOWING THE BODY. Fragment Gallery. NYC
2021
NADA House. NYC. Governor's Island. Paintings, objects
2021
The World Is Overflowing with Either Rubbish Or Our Memories. Golubitskoe Art Foundation. Installation, objects, performance
2020
Vll Moscow International Biennale For Young Art. Main program. Museum of Moscow and digital platform. Digital project, performances
2020
Time has stood still. 20:20. MMOMA
2020
Innovation Prize nominees exhibition. NCCA Arsenal. Nizhny Novgorod
2020
This laugh will end in tears. HSE art gallery. Ivan Gorshkov, Dagnini, Dmitry Kavka. Performances, documentation, video, installation, objects
2019
The whole world was not accessible to my gaze. The Carillon gallery. Texas, USA. Objects, video
2019
Rooted to the spot. Street Art Museum. Installation
2018
CYFEST 11: Weather Forecast festival. New York Media Centre. Video
2017
Corporeality. Luda Gallery. Performance
2017
Brighter days are coming. Street Art Museum. Installation, murals, video
2016
Special program of Moscow Biennal for Young Art. Artplay
Hi there.
Here is an old artist statement. Sorry, love, I did not care enough to update it for you yet:
DAGNINI
The common idea underlying most of ​​my projects can be described by the word “failure”.
Сreating objects and installations I focus on handiwork, and in particular, on practices of obsessive repetitiveness. Redrawn or hand-embroidered time and time again the computer interface features receive a new plastic and become personal, emotional, nostalgic symbols of the time.
Failure in perception is achieved through mixing the real and the virtual. The status of real objects and their perception is being changed: the physical becomes virtual, the virtual takes on a physical form.
The constant failure effect becomes both a theme for my installations and objects, and a structure for my performances, be it a violation of the usual, supposed scenario or an unexpected event.
Another principle I stick to working on performances is the deconstruction of the bodily image. When we look at the body of the other, we subconsciously transfer its image on ourselves. Looking at an unfamiliar strange body, our brain is trying to match this image with his/her/their own. Due to the irregular shape or its proportions, the perception of the viewer may fail; even the most simple technical methods cause a lively and emotional response.

Personas in my performances can also be read as a mix of real with virtual. These characters look like some images assembled in Photoshop, but at the same time they do exist here and now. The semantic elements of these personas are often a combination of familiar images: mythical animals, subcultural characters, cultural codes and clichés.