Irina Eldarova is an honoured artist of Azerbaijan and honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts. She works in a variety of media, yet Eldarova is best known for her bright figurative oil paintings in which she often selects topics with subtle humour.
Irina Eldarova had over two dozen solo shows in Azerbaijan and abroad, including seminal in the artist’s career Girls Prefer Oilmen that was shown in Baku’s Yay Gallery and Moscow’s Academy of Art (2017) and in London (2019). Selected group exhibitions include participation at Aluminium Baku Biennial (2007, 2013) and Fly to Baku that has been shown at Phillips de Pury & Company, Мansion Salomon de Rothschild, Me Collectors Room room, MAXXI National Modern Art Museum, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow and Heydar Aliyev Center.
Irina Eldarova’s works are in the collections of MOMA Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery, MOMA Baku, State Art Gallery of Azerbaijan, Alanika Gallery and in private collections in Azerbaijan, Russia, France and UK. In 1989 she was commissioned marble reliefs for Baku’s Halglar Dostlugu metro station.
Tandem Künstler:in – Rita Geißler
Das Projekt “The Assembly of Friendship” wird gefördert durch das Auswärtige Amt im Rahmen des Programms “Ausbau der Zusammenarbeit mit der Zivilgesellschaft in den Ländern der Östlichen Partnerschaft und Russland”
