Polina Kuprina





Polina Kuprina is a photographer and curator based in Budapest, Hungary. Her practice combines photography, installation, archival materials, and speculative narratives to explore memory, displacement, interrupted histories, and the unstable relationship between documentation and fiction. Drawing on personal archives, institutional collections, and documentary fragments, she creates photographic works and installations that examine how knowledge is transformed through absence, fragmentation, and reconstruction.



Education
2026

Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME)
MA Photography
Budapest, Hungary


2017

Russian State University for the Humanities
MA Art History and Curating
Moscow, Russia


2014

University of the Arts London
BA Fashion Photography
London, United Kingdom




Selected Exhibitions
2026

Aesthetics of Credibility
Artetage Centre for Contemporary Art
Vladivostok


2026

New Landscape
Budapest Photo Festival
Budapest


2025

Unfixed Portrait
MOME Gallery
Budapest


2025

Trace of Humanity
Mare Tuum space
Lanzarote




Curatorial Projects
2025–2026

Memory Pavilion
The Wrong Biennale, online


2025–2026

Out of Self
Probel Space × KRUS Group, Rostov-on-Don

2021–2023

Life with Viruses
Polytechnic Museum, Moscow


2023

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace. Living Pages
Leo Tolstoy museum × Noiz agency, Moscow


2018

The Boa Constrictor that Swallowed an Elephant
25Kadr Gallery, Moscow


2016

Shakespeare Lives
British Council × Domodedovo Airport, Moscow




Talks
2026

Work in Context/conference
Budapest


2022

Take and Do It/podcast
RIA Novosti, Moscow


2018

When an Artist Grows Up?/lecture
Gorky Park, Moscow


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