Ira Brana (b.1990, Omsk) is a russian artist with German and Ukrainian roots.
Since 2009, she has utilized photography as a fundamental tool in her artistic and professional practice.
Ira has been active in the contemporary art scene since 2020 and has exhibited her work in various exhibitions across Germany, Russia, Armenia, Montenegro, and Serbia.
Her projects predominantly focus on photography — modern still life, self-portrait, but the artist also works in other mediums: ceramic and textile objects, photo sculptures, video.
Currently a student at the Joseph Backstein Institute of Contemporary Art.
Based in Belgrade, Serbia.
Selected group exhibitions, art fairs
Me_mories, Neon gallery, Belgrade-2024
Architecture of life, Macura magazin, Belgrade-2024
Se*uality, NPAK, Armenian center of contemporary art, Yerevan-2024
Let's get in touch, Ratepay, Berlin-2023-2024
Body alchemy, Haze gallery|Retramp gallery, Berlin-2023
Metamorphosis, Social cultural space Pomorandža, Montenegro-2023
Festival of life, Haze gallery, 3d online, Berlin-2023
Art weekend 1.0, Studio O2, Montenegro-2023
BAAM art fair, Berlin-2023
Artefact, One`s mind gallery, St. Petersburg-2023
Homecoming, Art Kvartal gallery, Yerevan-2023
Blazar young art fair, Museum of Moscow, Moscow-2022
International film festival Mental fest, DK Rassvet, Moscow-2022
Skin and bones, space 1.201, St. Petersburg-2022
Field of physicality, DK Rosy, St. Petersburg-2021
Visibility, Sevkabel port, St. Petersburg-2021
Data 6, Zverevskiy Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow-2021
Code-named Moon, Art Center Polygraphic department, Moscow-2021
The body as a metaphor, Constructor space, St. Petersburg-2020
Art residence
NPAK, Women`s residence-workshop, Yerevan-2024
Artist talks
Big death conf speaker, online, 2024
From Irving Penn to Ira Brana, Art meet, St. Petersburg-2022
It's my still life, Experimental fest, St. Petersburg-2022
It's my still life, Art meet space 1.201, St. Petersburg-2022
Publications, interview
Interview with photographer Irina Brana, Haze gallery, 2023
Avgustnik magazine, 2023
Chislennichek project, edition 2022-2023
Esquire (Rules of life), Сreate from what is available, 2022
Blueprint`s choice of artists Blazar Fair-2022
Ladies drawing club, 2020
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I grew up in a typical Khrushchev-era apartment in Siberia, surrounded by a touching cacophony of visual noise — cherished mementos, both useful and unnecessary items, and objects that reflected the diverse traditions of my family. This environment significantly shaped my perception of the world through objects
and attention to detail.
By combining forms and textures — edible and inedible, utilitarian and decorative, personal and impersonal — I demonstrate how the fusion of simple objects gives rise to new meanings and metaphorical narratives.
My artistic language is a blend of experimentation, playfulness and conceptual stylistic linearity, reflection on themes of time,
originality, impermanence, the delicate nature of memories, and sensory experience.