Irina Shishkova

Irina Shishkova is a Russian-born artist based in Germany whose dreamlike psychogeographic landscapes carry the viewer into inner states of ambiguity, raising questions of multiple identity and becoming.
Having spent her childhood in Africa, Shishkova experienced a profound sense of nature and symbolism that was later challenged by the rupture of returning to post-Soviet Russia. This fracture sharpened her interest in how multicultural identity is reassembled. Her visual language was further refined through classical Russian academic training, the restraint of Sumi-e learned in Japan and further study at the Milan Art Institute. Additionally, her years in international corporate leadership informed her understanding of identity within complex systems.
Shishkova’s practice resists materialist readings of humans, treating the landscape as a site of psychological and metaphysical experience. Her work is regularly exhibited and held in private collections across Europe and beyond.