irina komissarova (she/her)
scenographer and meta-disciplinary artist working across performance, moving image, installation, and artistic research.
based in Klaipėda, Lithuania
Between force and fragility,
authority and authorship,
politics and poetics.
My scenography emerges from this tension —
not as background, but as statement.
Not as design, but as resistance.
I work through meta-scenographic structures that choreograph attention — across performance, moving image, and installation.
formal bio.
Irina Komissarova (b. 1989, Moscow) is a scenographer and meta-disciplinary artist based in Europe since 2011 (primarily Lithuania), working across performance, installation, and research-led practice. Her work approaches scenography as spatial dramaturgy: a set of perceptual conditions — rhythm, thresholds, proximity, duration — through which meaning is constructed in real time.
She is a graduate of the Norwegian Theatre Academy, where she developed an artistic research approach rooted in perception and embodied experience. Her background also includes studies in Interior and Environmental Design at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Moscow), a BA in Scenography from the Vilnius Academy of Arts, and further training through programs at the Meyerhold Centre and the Moscow Art Theatre School.
In 2025, she completed a year-long internship at Studio Tosatti in Naples, working with Gian Maria Tosatti, and contributed to Paradiso, a large-scale site-specific project presented during Milan Art Week and Milan Design Week 2025. Her portfolio spans scenography for theatre contexts as well as installations and public-space interventions across European cities. She currently develops independent performative and audiovisual projects that investigate atmosphere, attention, and the ways we communicate through space.
info.
feel free to text me in english, lithuanian or russian
interviews.
publications.
ARTICLE for Magazine on questions of scenography, scenic technics and technology, architecture, education and management in the field of performing arts (© «Сцена», No4 (96) 2015).
«Pushkin’s Tales» by Robert Wilson
Irina Komissarova «How it was» Irina Komissarova, a young artist, who was present at the performance’s rehearsals, writes about the work on the performance, Wilson’s method, ways of constructing the artistic space and collaboration with Russian actors.
keywords: Theatre of Nations, Robert Wilson, Alexander Pushkin, Yevgeny Mironov, Darya Moroz, Seseg Hapsasova, Olga Lapshina, Alexander Stroyev, AJ Vassbard, Julia von Leliva, Manuell a Halligan.
http://the-stage.ru/upload/iblock/cfe/cfef5c5199f06bd80785d3fa55961ea5.pdf
(full version in Russian)
SCENOGRAFE. Storia della scenografia femminile dal Novecento a oggi by Anna Maria Monteverdi (© Dino Audino 2021)
This book about females in scenography contains a chapter about my collaboration with Oscaras Korshunovas / Chapitolo secondo. Registi/autori e scenografe (Italian language).
