Irina Novarese works with mixed media installations, words, and editions. The city, as a concept, space, and organism, is the focus and material of her artistic practice, with a keen interest for cartography, urban studies, and infrastructure as interstitial spaces for life and cultural activism. She navigates cities, collects data, and remaps their contexts through site-specific exchanges with local experts. She translates her research into multi-spatial installations that incorporate drawings, texts, photographs, videos, audio, and sculptural objects. Some of her works deeply explore the relationship between urbanity and language, primarily viewing language as a poetic infrastructure. Irina is currently working on a series focusing on discarded objects as a cultural practice of the „urban being“.

Participation and collectivity are fundamental elements of numerous projects in which Irina Novarese works as an artist, organiser and curator, aiming to develop artistic communities based on contributions, knowledge and common interests. Current memberships are: HUJ:C e.V., Transcultural exchange and AIR Program, Berlin; The Watch, projectspace in the former GDR watchtower at Schlesischer Busch, Berlin. Since 2020 Irina Novarese is a member of the Independent Studio Advisory Board of the bbk Berlin e.V.

Born in Turin, Italy, Irina Novarese received a BA in Fine Arts in Turin; and an MA in Art in Context at 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), BIENAL SUR (2021 and 2025), and the POSVERSO Biennial (2024) in Argentina.
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)