Arte—facto

Things unfold along that unstable edge between utility and fiction. They do not exist for what they do, but for how they act. Kirchuk’s work weaves together languages: sculpture as a field of action, the object as a function archive, and absurdity as a form of critique.

She builds her devices through assembly operations, chromatic decisions, and hidden geometries, pushing the boundaries of form-function conventions. She folds and subverts the origins of industrial materials—but without concealment; the technical remains exposed. She destabilizes the line between the structural and the imagined.

Arte–fact does not belong to the world of design or to traditional sculpture. It is an expanded irony on things: lamps that become architecture, bins with animated presence, screens that divide but also observe. Each object is a hypothesis of action: a form that remembers, but no longer obeys.

Artist: Irina Kirchuk ― Curated by: Satsch Gallery ― Technical Production: AltoEstudio, Carlos Segovia, Mario Llullaillaco, Pablo Barreto ― Graphic Design: Ezequiel Cafaro ― Photography: Agustín Dagurke ― Dates: 22/05 al 30/07/2025 ― Satsch Gallery

Irina Kirchuk

Buenos Aires, 1983 ― She graduated with a degree in Sculpture from the National University of the Arts (UNA) in 2008. She continued her training in the Artists Program at the Torcuato Di Tella University (2009, 2010) and the Center for Artistic Research (2011), and participated in studio critiques with Fabián Burgos (2010, 2012). She worked at the U.S. Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007) and received a fellowship from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (2005).

She has exhibited both individually and collectively at institutions in Argentina and abroad, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), Washington, D.C. (2024); Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires (2023); MALBA, Buenos Aires (2023); MAR Museum, Mar del Plata (2023); Palacio Barolo, Buenos Aires (2023); GAMeC Museum, Bergamo, Italy (2022); Torcuato Di Tella University, Buenos Aires (2021, 2022); Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (2021); Sendrós Gallery, Buenos Aires (2021); University of Lille, France (2020); 14th Fellbach Small Sculpture Triennial, Germany (2019); Salone del Mobile, Milan (2019); Bold Tendencies, London (2018); UNA Architecture, Hamburg (2018); UNTREF, Buenos Aires (2018); Galerie Papillon, Paris (2017); Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires (2016); Móvil, Buenos Aires (2014); Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires (2013); Museo del Novecento, Milan (2013); and the 11th Lyon Biennale, France (2011).

She has received awards and completed residencies, including the Civitella Ranieri Visual Arts Fellowship, Italy (2023); Konex Award – Honorable Mention, Buenos Aires (2022); FAAP Residency, São Paulo (2019); National Fund for the Arts Sculpture Award (2019); Résidence Internationale aux Récollets, Paris (2016); Intramondes Center Residency, La Rochelle (2016); Second Prize at the 69th National Salon of Rosario (2016); Braque Prize, Immigration Museum, Buenos Aires (2015); First Prize Lucio Fontana, Milan (2013); Petrobras Award, Buenos Aires (2010); F. Klemm Foundation Award, Buenos Aires (2009, 2015, 2021); Andreani Foundation Award (2009, 2011, 2017, 2021); National Salon and Fortabat Award (2021).

In 2025, she presents Arte–facto, an exclusive production by Satsch Gallery.

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