Irina Kanne is a professional artist who captures the beauty of the world through lines and colors, drawing inspiration from nature and the human inner world. In her paintings, forms and textures harmoniously intertwine with emotions. Through Irina’s art, viewers can feel a subtle connection between the external world and a person’s inner state. Each of her works fills the viewer with a sense of harmony and tranquility. Soft lines, rich colors, and delicate textures create an atmosphere of calm, allowing one to forget the stress and rush of everyday life. Irina’s art is a path toward inner balance and harmony.
Living in migration, Irina finds inspiration in the process of adaptation, turning it into a creative exploration of harmony and the feeling of home. The experience of relocation has become not a challenge but a space for growth: through her art, she creates harmony around herself, as if building a home out of lines, light, and color.
Reflections play an essential role in Irina’s art. Her paintings often feature dancing lines and shapes of reflections in water or mirrored glass surfaces. The artist shows how the familiar world can transform and reveal unexpected beauty when viewed from a different perspective—just like life itself, filled with motion and change.

BIOGRAPHY
Irina (Kanne) Kononenko/ Kalinichenko 19.11.1989
in the Kyrgyz SSR.

2009 - 2011 Voronezh Art School, Russia
2012 - 2016 Voronezh Art College. A programme Fine Arts. Fields of painting and free graphic art
June - August 2017 Portrait Drawing Courses by Evgeniy Shcheglov, Voronezh, Russia
July - October 2018 Figurative Drawing Courses by Maxim Dikunov


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014 Regional youth exhibition in Voronezh. Russia.
2015 Regional youth exhibition in Voronezh, Voronezh, Russia
2017 Spring Vernissage, Voronezh, Russia
10.09 - 21.09.2024, “The future is now”, Milano, Italy