ARTIST DARIA PRONINA
My name is Daria Pronina. I am an artist, filmmaker, and creator of artistic practices based in Belgrade, Serbia. I work across painting, video, text, and artistic ritual. My practice explores how memory, lived experience, and recurring images gradually become personal mythology, creating new ways of navigating periods of uncertainty and change.
Growing up in the Ural region of Russia, together with the experiences of migration, the study of the unconscious, and documentary filmmaking, has shaped my interdisciplinary artistic practice. My works are held in private collections in Russia, Kazakhstan, Germany, the United States, and Serbia.
Growing up in the Ural region of Russia, together with the experiences of migration, the study of the unconscious, and documentary filmmaking, has shaped my interdisciplinary artistic practice. My works are held in private collections in Russia, Kazakhstan, Germany, the United States, and Serbia.
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/ABOUT
ABOUT ME
Participation in collective exhibitions of plein air works, Russia
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/EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITIONS
2024
2023
2021-2022
2018
2011-2014
Group exhibition "Architecture of Life, "ART SPACE "MAGACIN MACURA"
Participation in residency and group exhibition at KC GRAD European Centre for Culture and Debate
Solo exhibition "Secret Garden," Belgrade, Serbia
Group exhibition and art fair, Belgrade, Serbia
Group exhibition "ECHO of Family Relationships 2024," Belgrade, Serbia
Participation in residency and group exhibition at KC GRAD European Centre for Culture and Debate
Solo exhibition "Secret Garden," Belgrade, Serbia
Group exhibition and art fair, Belgrade, Serbia
Group exhibition "ECHO of Family Relationships 2024," Belgrade, Serbia
Group exhibition "Geography of People," Andrić Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Group exhibition "Russian Artists in Belgrade," Andrić Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Group exhibition "Transition to the Next Level," Belgrade, Serbia
Group exhibition "Russian Artists in Belgrade," Andrić Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Group exhibition "Transition to the Next Level," Belgrade, Serbia
Participation in the zin-art exhibition, Sinara Art Gallery
Artist and curator of the "Real" project, Testo Gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Solo exhibition "Floral Mood, Captured Time," Testo Gallery, Russia
Artist and curator of the "Real" project, Testo Gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Solo exhibition "Floral Mood, Captured Time," Testo Gallery, Russia
Participation in the exhibition "Yekaterinburg: Your View," EASI, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Art School No. 1, Perm.
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/EDUCATION
EDUCATION
2022
2021
2016-2018
2014-2016
2010-2014
Courses at the Young Artist Laboratory, Ural Branch of the National Center for Contemporary Arts (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts);
Lecture series on the history of Ural art and the ZIN laboratory, Sinara Art Gallery;
Lecture series on the history of Ural art and the ZIN laboratory, Sinara Art Gallery;
ANO DPO "Art Pedagogy and Art Therapy Technologies", Moscow;
Anna Radchenko Academy, Ctrl+Art course for creative professionals, Moscow, London;
Anna Radchenko Academy, Ctrl+Art course for creative professionals, Moscow, London;
Ural State University of Architecture and Arts (USUAA), Graphic Design, Yekaterinburg;
Perm National Research Polytechnic University (PNRPU), Industrial Design, Perm;
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/BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY
Artist and filmmaker working across painting, video, text, and artistic ritual. Her practice explores transformation, memory, and personal mythology. Participant in exhibitions, residencies, projects, and art fairs. Author of educational programs and artistic practices for creative professionals.
Biography. In 2014, she graduated from Art School No. 1 in Perm. Between 2014 and 2016, she studied Industrial Design, and in 2018 received a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design from the Ural State University of Architecture and Art (URALGAHU), Yekaterinburg. In 2021, she completed additional professional education in Art Pedagogy and Art Therapy Technologies, while also attending the Ctrl+Art programme for creative practitioners at the Anna Radchenko Academy in Moscow.
In 2022, she was selected for the Young Artist Laboratory at the Ural Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts), where she participated in educational programmes focusing on the history of Ural art and independent publishing practices.
Between 2018 and 2022, Pronina participated in exhibitions, contemporary art fairs and independent art projects across Russia. In 2021, she presented a solo exhibition as part of the international Night of Museums programme. During this period, she also worked as both artist and curator, collaborating with galleries, museums and independent cultural institutions.
Since relocating to Serbia in 2023, she has actively participated in exhibitions and independent art projects in Belgrade while continuing to develop her interdisciplinary artistic practice.
In 2024, she was selected for the European Union residency programme at KC Grad. That same year, she participated in five exhibitions in independent and private art spaces across Belgrade, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Macura, and was commissioned by Playrix to create a series of large-scale murals.
In 2025, she collaborated with interior designers and architects, and her works were featured in editorial projects for Serbian interior design magazines.
In 2026, her practice expanded to include video, documentary filmmaking, and artistic ritual as integral parts of her artistic research. That same year, she curated the exhibition project Book of Recipes.
In 2022, she was selected for the Young Artist Laboratory at the Ural Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts), where she participated in educational programmes focusing on the history of Ural art and independent publishing practices.
Between 2018 and 2022, Pronina participated in exhibitions, contemporary art fairs and independent art projects across Russia. In 2021, she presented a solo exhibition as part of the international Night of Museums programme. During this period, she also worked as both artist and curator, collaborating with galleries, museums and independent cultural institutions.
Since relocating to Serbia in 2023, she has actively participated in exhibitions and independent art projects in Belgrade while continuing to develop her interdisciplinary artistic practice.
In 2024, she was selected for the European Union residency programme at KC Grad. That same year, she participated in five exhibitions in independent and private art spaces across Belgrade, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Macura, and was commissioned by Playrix to create a series of large-scale murals.
In 2025, she collaborated with interior designers and architects, and her works were featured in editorial projects for Serbian interior design magazines.
In 2026, her practice expanded to include video, documentary filmmaking, and artistic ritual as integral parts of her artistic research. That same year, she curated the exhibition project Book of Recipes.
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/ARTIST STATEMENT
ARTIST STATEMENT
Rather than treating symbols as fixed meanings, I explore the moment they come into being. Images return across different works, changing their significance over time and gradually forming an evolving symbolic landscape.
My artistic practice explores how people create inner maps for navigating the unknown.
Rooted in my experience of growing up in the Ural region of Russia and shaped by migration, serious illness, and the fragility of human existence, my work explores moments when familiar ways of understanding ourselves and the world no longer hold. It is within this uncertainty that new systems of orientation and meaning begin to emerge.
Working across painting, video, text, and artistic ritual, I investigate not myth as an inherited structure, but the moment of its emergence — when a memory becomes a symbol, coincidence becomes a sign, and personal experience gradually transforms into personal mythology.
For me, art is a practice of navigation: not a way of explaining the world, but a space where new connections, symbols, and ways of moving through uncertainty can emerge.
Rooted in my experience of growing up in the Ural region of Russia and shaped by migration, serious illness, and the fragility of human existence, my work explores moments when familiar ways of understanding ourselves and the world no longer hold. It is within this uncertainty that new systems of orientation and meaning begin to emerge.
Working across painting, video, text, and artistic ritual, I investigate not myth as an inherited structure, but the moment of its emergence — when a memory becomes a symbol, coincidence becomes a sign, and personal experience gradually transforms into personal mythology.
For me, art is a practice of navigation: not a way of explaining the world, but a space where new connections, symbols, and ways of moving through uncertainty can emerge.
