Installation site specific – Kottbussertor – 2023
realized for the Group Exhibition rage ’n‘ boredom at Westgermany – Büro für postpostmoderne Kommunikation, Berlin, curated by Karø Goldt.

Installation site specific – Kottbussertor – 2023
realized for the Group Exhibition rage ’n‘ boredom at Westgermany – Büro für postpostmoderne Kommunikation, Berlin, curated by Karø Goldt.
A very short exhibition with Irina Novarese / Jonathan Scotti / Karø Goldt / Matthias Mayer / M van Hundt / Otto Hashmi / Saeed Foroghi / Curated by Karø Goldt
Live Acts:
Reading „Gegensatzpläne, ein Kommentar„ M van Hundt – 8 pm
Recorder Performance „Pied Piper“ Otto Hashmi – 8.30 pm
Soundperformance „Vom Abbau der Welt zu Ganz Berlin“, Matthias Mayer aka DJ Sporty Jack – 9 pm
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25th 2023 – 7pm till 11.45 pm
WEST GERMANY – Skalitzerstr. 133, 10999 Berlin
image: Karø Goldt
20 LED Lamps – Site specific installation – 2023
presented during the Lange Nacht der Bilder, hosted by St37 – Atelier für Eisen und Feuerarbeiten, Berlin.
14.10.2023 – 12 till 6 pm
Presentation of the transcultural Happening at the Museum Lichtenberg – Berlin
In den Räumen des Museum Lichtenberg haben wir den syrischen Künstler Yaser Safi und das deutsch-spanische Musikduo Ehrhardt & García eingeladen, ihre Werke zu präsentieren und zusammen mit uns ein transkulturelles Happening zu gestalten, das alle Sinne einbezieht.
Continue reading „DBd9 #1“ →2023 – Site Specific Installation, realized for the exhibition TREASURE
Continue reading „SHINY BLACK, ALMOST SHARP-EDGED, CRUMBLING TO THE TOUCH.“ →Group Exhibition @ Studio Bildende Kunst, Berlin
OPENING: Friday, 21.04.2023 at 18:00
EXHIBITION: 22.04. thru 01.06.2023
Curated by Kristen Cooper & Zoltan Kunckel
2022 – Poem and Experimental Reading
In Collaboration with Bianca Jannuzzi and Maria Baeza Ramirez
Presented as LED Text-Installation at the Caném Gallery.
Part of the experimental Book/Audio Exhibition OUT THERE organized by HIER & JETZT: Connections.
2022 – Multimedia Installation
The research for While We Sink (The Word is on Flowers) starts with five black and white drawings that translate images of the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also called plastic continent. The marine debris is an accumulation of garbage in the Pacific Ocean that has reached a size similar to Texas, and that researchers and activists who observe it, describe with names such as „The Soup“.
Continue reading „WHILE WE SINK“ →2020/22 – multimedia installation
Do the Words is a site specific project presented in a solo exhibition at Careof Milano in 2022: an investigation of infrastructure and metropolitan movements through words.
Continue reading „DO THE WORDS“ →[THE WORD IS ON FLOWERS]
IRINA NOVARESE
Canem Galeria
Antonio Maura 6 – 12001 Castelló (ES)
December 2nd 2022 – February 4th 2023
Opening Friday, December 2nd 2022 – 7pm
Open Tu-Fr 5-9pm / Sat 11am-2pm and 5-9pm
Conversazioni con Testori
Luca Doninelli, Silvana Editoriale, 2012
Milano siamo noi. Fuori dai luoghi comuni.
Pensare una città autentica e democratica. 20 voci civili
Angelo Miotto, Massimo Acanfora, Altreconomia, 2021
L‘ edicola che non c’è. La stampa underground a Milano
Moicana. Centro studi sulle controculture, Agenzia X, 2021
Geografie della rivolta. Primo Moroni, il libraio del movimento
Primo Moroni, Dinamo Book, 2019
Prendiamoci la città. Una storia così non dovrebbe finire mai
Colibrì Edizioni, 2019
Milano sotto Milano. Viaggio nell’economia sommersa di una metropoli
Antonio Talia, Minimum Fax, 2021
Con le parole ovunque. Poesia di strada e sovversione dello spazio urbano
Francesco Maria Terzago, MisterCaos, Agenzia X, 2021
Giovanna Silva. City, I listen to your heart. Milan
Mousse Publishing, 2021
ITER Percorsi di ricerca
anno I n.1 – gen.- apr. 1991
Milano e la violenza politica 1962-1986. La mappa dei luoghi della città e i luoghi della memoria
Davide Steccanella, Milieu, 2020
Milano dopo il miracolo. Biografia di una città
John Foot, Feltrinelli, 2015
Il discorso dei luoghi. Genesi e avventure dell’ordine moderno
a cura di Ida Faré, Liguori, 1992
Milano fa 90
Giorgia Ripa, Marina Resta, Monia Donati – 2013
Abitare significa lasciare impronte
Francesca Balbo – 2013
Milano: una cittá, dieci ritratti. Ivan
Elisabetta Massera, Luca Campus – 2009
Entroterra Giambellino
Collettivo Immaginariesplorazioni – 2012
Dell’arte della guerra
Luca Bellino, Silvia Luzi – 2012
Vedozero
Andrea Caccia – 2009
Milano Vive
Mario Milani – 1954
L’estate vola
Andrea Caccia – 2000
Falck. Romanzo di uomini e di fabbrica
Monica Repetto – 2010
Via I da I Paolo Sarpi
Lidia Mazo 2009
Milano Centrale
Alan Maglio – 2007
120 mt. s.l.m.
Giuseppe Baresi – 2003
L’orchestra in via Padova
Giuseppe Baresi – 2012
La Casa verde (una storia politica)
Gianluca Brezza – 2009
Era la città del cinema
Claudio Casazza – 2010
A Ming
Alessandro De Toni, Matteo Parisini – 2005
MI/MA – Milano / Manhattan
Anna Giro, Tonino Curagi – 2008
360 Giri
Enzo Umbaca, 2009
Dove finisce la città
Alice Guareschi, 1999
La riappropriazione della città
Ugo la Pietra, 1977
Milano Up Date
Francesco Fei, 2011
Milano Domani
Regia Giorgio Cavedon, 1960 ICET
Bovisa
Regia Camilla Borò, Fabio Passerini, 2021
Prodotto da Cineteca Milano, Comune di Milano; Grazie alla collaborazione con Ufficio negli Spazi Pubblici del Comune di Milano e al contributo di Fondazione Comunità di Milano.
Milano Nera
Regia Gian Rocco e Pino Serpi
1963
Rocco e i suoi fratelli
Luchino Visconti
1960
Il posto
Ermanno Olmi
1961
I cannibali
Liliana Cavani
1970
La classe operaia va in paradiso
Elio Petri
1971
Articoli Arcipelago Milano
SAPESSI COM’È STRANO RITROVARSI A CORRERE A MILANO
Per dare un senso alla ripartenza
di Marco Garzonio
IL MEAZZA: UNA PAGINA BUIA DI SINDACO E GIUNTA
Alla faccia delle trasparenza, della partecipazione e del consumo di suolo
di Luca Beltrami Gadola
IL MILANESE IMPIGRITO
Chi ha votato Sala e chi no
di Luca Beltrami Gadola
PERCHÉ LE CASE POPOLARI SONO COSÌ IMPOPOLARI?
Una domanda che ha più di sessant’anni
di Michela Barzi
MILANO CITTÀ METROPOLITANA
Visione politica e futuro
di Fiorello Cortiana
Dark Enactments in Milan: A Practice-Centred Exploration of an Italian Post-Punk Subculture of the ’80s
di Simone Tosoni – Department of Communication and Performing Arts, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy)
From Bello to biutiful: what’s going on with the Italian Language?
Annamaria Testa | TEDxMilano
Le cinque giornate di Milano raccontate da Antonio Scurati
Masterclass – Scuola Holden
MILANO IN GUERRA
Documentario Rai Storia
Storia di Filomena e Antonio gli Anni’70 e la Droga a Milano
di Antonello Branca 1976
Anni spietati. Milano.
Di Stefano Caselli e Davide Valentini.
Documentario Rai Storia – Rai Educational
7 MILANESE SLANG WORDS TO KNOW
Tia Taylor and Chelello
Collettivo Cinema Militante Milanese
diversi filmati
Careof presents the site-specific installation from October 5th till 29th, 2022
Opening Tuesday, October 4th, 2022 – 7pm
c/o Careof
Fabbrica del Vapore, via Procaccini, 4, 20154 Milano
More information (italian)
DO THE WORDS is an investigation of metropolitan infrastructure and movements through words.
Irina Novarese’s research was made possible thanks to Francesco Martelli and Alessandro Mignone, Cittadella degli Archivi; Mario Gorni; Giuseppe Frangi, Casa Testori; Giulia Vallicelli, Compulsive Archive; Nicoletta Vallorani, Gianmarco Torri, Paola Arrigoni, Docucity Archive – Documenting the Metropolis – Unimi – Primo Moroni Archive; Casa BASE.
The project is realized thanks the support of:
NEUSTART KULTUR Stipendium (2. Auflage) – Stiftung Kunstfonds
HIER&JETZT: Connections – Berlin
and the patronage of the City of Milan as part of the project Spaces to Talent.
Opening: June 25, 2022, 7pm
Exhibition: 25.06. – 30.07.2022
SCOTTY Projektraum für zeitgenössische Kunst und experimentelle Medien
Oranienstr. 46 – 10969 Berlin
With: Anja Asche, Eric Beier, Gyde Becker, Niina Lehtonen Braun, Kuno Ebert, Barbara Eitel, Albrecht Fersch, Nathalie Giraud, Sabine Hilscher, Mareike Jacobi, Kerstin von Klein, Irina Novarese, Nike Ossler, Franziska Peter, Julia Pitschmann, Holger Pohl, Katharina Poos, Janis Schroeder, Sabine Schründer, Min Sook, Lorina Speder, Anna Staffel, Christina Stark, Manuel Tozzi, Urun Unal und Babette Werth
03. März – 28. April 2022 | Kuesti Fraun, Irina Novarese und Elma Riza
Kunstraum Fuge im Schaufenster der Heinrich-Böll-Bibliothek
Greifswalder Straße 87, 10409 Berlin
Vernissage: am 3. März ab 19 Uhr,
Laufzeit: 3. März – 28. April 2022 – 24/7 h
Lip (Live in Pankow) 2022 – site specific installation – digital prints on tracing paper, LED texts.
LiP is a literary narrative of encounters and visions that begins with an immersion in the Heinrich-Böll-Library’s collection and continues to unfold keywords related to the Pankow area in Berlin. Terms, thoughts, quotations are freely designed as a flow of words, creating new links and poetic and visual associations that open and develop a guiding path between urban spaces and artistic concepts.
Continue reading „LiP“ →A trace from the border apparatus during the division of the city, the former GDR watchtower on Schlesischer Busch has a long tradition of cultural and artistic production ever since Reunification. Under the care of Flutgraben e.V. since 2004, the building has hosted several exhibitions, talks, screenings, and residencies.
The Watch consists of a group of artists and cultural producers working on a voluntary basis. Every year this group decides on the thematic content, formats, and programming of the watchtower either through direct invitations or open calls.
The Watch is currently Jean-Ulrick Désert, Franziska Koenig-Paratore, Dominique Hurth, Irina Novarese and Jo Zahn. Coming from the fields of theatre, scenography, visual arts, writing, performance and curating, an interdisciplinary and collaborative practice is at the core of The Watch informed by feminist, queer and non-hegemonic strategies.
HIER & JETZT: Connections is an exchange and residency program with artists in exile. The initiative was launched in 2017 by artists based at B.L.O. Ateliers in Berlin-Lichtenberg and is funded through the Cultural Office of Berlin City District Lichtenberg, Art and Culture Department.
Artistic direction: Kristen Cooper, Christa Fülbier, Irina Novarese, Özlem Sariyildiz
2021 – Poster A1 – 100 copies – realized for the exhibition in Public Space „Hey Universum“ – Berlin.
a (poster) exhibition in public space
November 8th – 21st, 2021 – Berlin
ARTISTS
Rula Ali, Nacer Ahmadi, Miguel Buenrostro, Kristen Cooper, D’Andrade, Laura Fong Prosper, Christa Fülbier, Tirdad Hashemi, Ziyad Hawwas, Halim Karabibene, Nicolás Kisic Aguirre, Zoltan Kunckel, Sam Madhu, Irina Novarese, Ramin Parvin, Yaser Safi, Ruba Salameh, Özlem Sarıyıldız, Uli Westphal, Bora Yediel
THE FOLLOWING QUIET IS BROKEN BY CHEERING FROM THE CROWDS, THE BIRDS FLEEING TO THE SKY AND HUGE CLOUDS OF DUST WAFTING SLOWLY AWAY – Video Essay
presented @ BienalSur Sede Virtual Curated by Benedetta Casini
*OH! Queer* is a series of events with cross-cultural artists, which takes place in Lichtenberg, at B.L.O. Ateliers. From June to November 2021.
Program: *oh! Queer* ?️??️⚧️?? (@oh_queer_berlin) • Instagram-Fotos und -Videos
Continue reading „Talks series @ B.L.O. Ateliers – Berlin – 2021“ →
Is a „site-specific“ audio work for the new program of MING Studios called My on Mondays which explores the possessive „My“ through narratives, art and sound.
2021 – 10′
A written dialogue with Margarete Steffin (actress, writer, translator, social activist), inspired and constructed from her words, and based on an exchange of opinions and ideas about building communities, solidarity and the importance of communication.
Opening Friday, February 26, 2021 – 4.30 till 8.00 pm
Exhibition from 26.02 till 12.03.2021
in the outdoor area of the Museum Lichtenberg im Stadthaus Türrschmidtstr. 24 – 10317 Berlin
ARTISTS: Rula Ali, Shirin Ashkari, Christa Fülbier, Ziyad Hawwas, Halim Karabibene, Zoltan Kunckel, Irina Novarese, Ramin Parvin, Dachil Sado, Yaser Safi, Ruba Salameh, Özlem Sarıyıldız, Uli Westphal, Bora Yediel, Sarah Zeryab, DIE KOMPANIE.
Curated by Kristen Cooper
SITE SPECIFIC Project and solo show
CAREOF – Milano
October 2021
Curated by Ilaria Bernardi
* 2018-2020 After the Project realized at Goethe Na Vila – Vila Itororó – Sao Paulo
numbered edition of 250 – Digital Print B/W 114 Pages – Portuguese / English
20,00€ – for orders please contact me per mail: bibolat20@hotmail.com
ISBN 978-3-00-065190-8
Continue reading „FALE NOVAMENTE FALE COMO CHUVA / SPEAK AGAIN SPEAK LIKE RAIN“ →
*2017-2018 Edition 50, printed in risograph – for the exhibition THE FOURTH WALL at Canem Gallery, Castellón (ES)
Continue reading „THE FOURTH WALL“ →
* 2017 – Edition 100 / bw digital print on colored paper / english
Kindly supported by:
MING Studios – Contemporary Art Center & international Residency Program, Boise Idaho,
Boise City Dept Of Art and History Idaho State Historical Society
* 2015 – Edition 30, colour, digital print / italian, english – NOPX Edition, Turin
Continue reading „LANDOLOGY. Scorci di una politica delle differenze“ →
* 2013 – Edition 50, bw digital print, english, NOPX Edition, Turin
Continue reading „HOW TO FIND PLACES, or my Pseudoscience of Whereabouts“ →
* 2013 – Edition 50, bw digital print, english, Odalys Gallery, Madrid
* 2012-13 – unique edition – 8 Elements bw digital print
Continue reading „AAA THE DESERT SERIES. Searching spaces between spaces“ →
* 2011 – Edition 50 color + 50 bw / digital print – english, Italian – NOPX Edition, Turin
Continue reading „REMIND ME THEN TO GIVE YOU THE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO GET LOST“ →
* 2010 Edition 5/5, signed 21 x 21 cm, digital print – color – 40 pages, in aluminum box
Part of the installation THE FURNO’S BOOK
Continue reading „/profile.php?id=1664485734“ →
* 2010 – edition 10 – Italian, English, German
Part of the installation THE GLORIOUS FLIGHT OF RILE LESOV
* 2008 – edition 2 – German, Italian
realized for the Master Thesis at Institut for Art in Context, UdK Berlin
„DAS DRITTE SUBJECT ODER: WER WAR FRAU FURNO?
Das fotografische Portrait: Dokument und Fiktion“
Continue reading „DAS DRITTE SUBJECT ODER: WER WAR FRAU FURNO?“ →
GEDANKENPOSITION is about balance, support and solidarity.
The mirrors are a direct reference to those found in the more recent jail cells of the former Stasi Prison in Hohenschönhausen. Former prisoners recall how important the presence of the mirror was in indicating denied reality and the passing of time. Continue reading „GEDANKENPOSITION“ →
Under Palm Trees, a Submarine.
Art reflects transnational perspectives, new relationships and the ghosts of a place.
Artists: Rula Ali, Omar Alshaer, Shirin Ashkari, Mäki Closch, Christa Fülbier, Halim Karabibene, DIE KOMPANIE, Zoltan Kunckel, Irina Novarese, Ramin Parvin, Dachil Sado, Yaser Safi, Ozlem Sariyildiz, Uli Westphal, Bora Yedel
Curator: Kristen Cooper
08.12. – 22.12.2019 Villa Heike, Freienwalder Str.17 13055 Berlin-Hohenschönhausen
OPENING Saturday, 7.12.2019 at 4PM
WELCOME ADDRESS by Dr. Catrin Gocksch, Department Manager Art and Culture Continue reading „UNTER PALMEN EIN U_BOOT“ →
THE FOLLOWING QUIET IS BROKEN BY CHEERING FROM THE CROWDS, THE BIRDS FLEEING TO THE SKY AND HUGE CLOUDS OF DUST WAFTING SLOWLY AWAY Continue reading „THE FOLLOWING QUIET IS BROKEN“ →
Born in Turin, Italy, Irina Novarese received a BA in Fine Arts from the Accademia Albertina, Turin; and an MA in Art in Context from the UdK Berlin.
Her work has been exhibited in solo shows in various museums, galleries and off-site projects in Italy, Germany, Spain, Venezuela and the USA, as well as in group exhibitions including: the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale (2006); the 2nd Ghetto Biennale in Haiti (2012); the MOR Museo orgánico Romerillo, 12th Havana Biennial (2015), and the BIENAL SUR (2021).
Her practice is constantly evolving in different areas of work such as artist’s books, texts, drawings, site-specific installations and videos.
Irina’s installations focus on the construction of cartographies and their relationship to reality. A mapping of conceptual rather than physical spaces, oriented towards existing geographies, especially those related to places that are more human and anthropocentric than natural. Her research is mainly developed around interstitial urban environments as opportunities and resources, especially for those who live and produce cultural and political realities around them. In her practice, she longs for and seeks out other people to exchange and explore concepts and places. Some of her recent works, based on reciprocity, are deeply concerned with the relationship between urbanity and the use and emergence of language, seen primarily as a poetic infrastructure.
Participation is a fundamental element of numerous projects through which she aims to build communities based on contributions, shared knowledge, and artistic and visionary affinities.
As an artist, she works as a curator and organizer of various projects. Current memberships are: HIER&JETZT: Connections – a residency and exchange program for artists in exile, Berlin; The Watch, residency program in the former GDR watchtower at Schlesischer Busch, Berlin; MING Studios, Contemporary Art Center & International Artist in Residency Program, Boise, Idaho (USA).
Since 2020 Irina Novarese is a member of the Independent Studio Advisory Board of the bbk Berlin e.V.
Her works are included in the collections of MUFOCO – Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea (IT); ARTPHILEIN FOUNDATION (CH); Universitat Politecnica de València (ES); GAM, Museum of Modern Art, Turin (IT); APERTO, Contemporary Art Museum, Barge, (IT); PAV, Parco d’arte Vivente, Turin (IT); as well as in international private collections.
Irina Novarese’s work is represented by the Canèm Gallery, Castellon (ES)
exhibitions, projects, grants
FALE NOVAMENTE, FALE COMO CHUVA – SPEAK AGAIN, SPEAK LIKE RAIN is a participative project on spoken words as cultural form of activism moreover on urban interstices seen as chances and resources through the practice of Sarau and Slam poetry, which engage the participants to debate the right to the city, to celebrate urban life, to embrace visions and concrete’s surfaces. Continue reading „SPEAK AGAIN, SPEAK LIKE RAIN“ →
ARTS LIBRIS
So glad about the Reward of the Fundación Banc Sabadell for my Artist Books presented by the Caném Gallery at the International Fair of Artists‘ Books and Contemporary Editions 9th edition Barcelona. April 2018
A collage of datas, thoughts and visions report to the ideas and projects of urban planning, realities of worldwide trading till fictional neighborhood builded for military purposes. Continue reading „THE FOURTH WALL“ →
The origin of the site-specific, solo exhibition ONE SHOT is an investigation into a image sourced from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation entitled All Female Survey Crew taken in 1918, during the works for the Mindoka infrastructure Project in Idaho.
The work’s group titled INTERSTICES/CRACKS is related to the broad comprehension of living space in relation with infrastructures and their interstitial spaces.
International video-art screenings and presentations * 2015-2018
KIN*K took place each month at BLO-ATELIERS in Berlin, Lichtenberg.
Curated by Irina Novarese & Marco Pezzotta, with the great support of BLO-Ateliers LockKunst e.V. and all the invited artists.
The Project was funded by Bezirkskulturfonds Lichtenberg
NOTES ON THE WESTWARD JOURNEY is a work composed by a video and five artist’s books. Here I deal specifically with women’s diaries of migration during the so called Westward Journey in the US, between 1841 and 1867.
Silke Bauer, Irina Novarese and Viola Thiele
* since 2011
A*BOUT – ARTIST GROUP
We got to know each other during the MA program “Art in Context” at the UdK Berlin. Our own biographical and parallel interests in artistic forms such as situative installations and process-oriented, project-based work encouraged us to develop participatory and interdisciplinary projects. One of these included the project Hydromemories, which has been presented in four exhibitions in Europe and Venezuela.