irina komissarova (she/her)
scenographer and transdisciplinary artist working across performance, moving image, installation, meta-narratives, and artistic research.
based in Klaipeda, 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.
formal bio.
Irina Komissarova (b. 1989, Moscow) is a scenographer and artist researcher based in Europe since 2011, primarily in Lithuania. She works within expanded scenography, treating it as spatial dramaturgy and composing atmosphere through rhythm, proximity, timing, sound, light, and minimal material interventions.
She is an MA graduate of the Norwegian Theatre Academy, where she developed an artistic research approach rooted in embodied perception. Her background also includes studies in Interior and Environmental Design at the Institute of Contemporary Art in 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 and contributed to Paradiso, a large scale site specific project presented during Milan Art Week and Milan Design Week 2025. Her portfolio spans theatre scenography, installations, and public space interventions across European cities, alongside independent performative and audiovisual works.
Her current research unfolds within the universe of de:manifestation, a continuing inquiry into how meaning appears and dissolves through staged conditions of attention. Using calibrated relations between sound, light, timing, and minimal material cues, she composes scenographic encounters built on thresholds, repetition, and controlled absence. The project expands through parallel iterations that combine generative image and video systems, spatial sound composition, and choreographic structures tested through performative experiments.
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).
