Polina Popova is an artist born in 1981 and based in Ekaterinburg, Russia. Popova works across installation, sculpture, painting and wide-ranging materials to articulate an aesthetic grounded in a postcolonial nonbeing. Her exhibitions use abstraction and everyday objects to produce distinctive arrangements of sense and affect. Popova’s work is a long intergenerational study that connects to her ancestors through her eclectic armoury and experimentation with different forms.

Popova was born in Ekaterinburg, she received a Painting BA from the Ekaterinburg College of Art in 2000 and a Social Philosophy BA in Ekaterinburg State University. In 2015 she studied at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, received a stipend grant from the Open Culture Foundation (OCF), London, UK. In 2015 she participated in the graduation exhibition Event Horizons, parallel program of the 6th Moscow Biennale, Vadim Sidur Museum, Moscow, Russia.

She has exhibited in Russia and represented in private collections.

The artist lives and works in Ekaterinburg.