Hortnagl Dinara Dinara Hurtnagl was born in 1988 in Ekaterinburg. She lives and works in Vienna and St. Petersburg.
In 2013 she graduated from the Graphic Department of the Repin St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (workshop of Pakhomov Andrey Alekseevich) with a gold medal and red diploma.
In 2021 she became a nominee of the largest European competition of graphic art - Koschatzky ART Award, organized by Rotary Albertina Wien. The exhibition of nominees was presented at the Schönborn Palace in Vienna, with Carola Kraus, director general of the Mumok & Leopold Museum and curator of the Austrian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, acting as jury president.
Member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists since 2015.
She occupies the 36th position in the "Top 100 young artists" according to InArt
Since 2019 Dinara has been working on the project "Talking Walls", inviting leading Russian and European street artists to collaborate. The result of the first part of the project was shown at the Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Wall Street International wrote about this exhibition, and GQ Russia magazine included the exhibition in the Top 5 events of the fall in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The works of this series were sold at the auctions Vladey and RuArts and at the Art Fair "1703
"Talking Walls" was part of the Artist/Hooligan Project program at the Thursday Foundation in Moscow and at the Street Art Museum in St. Petersburg.
Other solo exhibitions were held in museums and galleries in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Paris, Budapest, Vienna, and Beihai.
Works are in the collections of: the State Museum "Vyborg Castle", the State Hermitage Museum - Vyborg, the Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts named after I.I. Mashkov. Mashkov, Stary Oskol Art Museum, State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Espronceda art&culture art residence in Barcelona, Global Art Center (GLO'Art) in Belgium, Ari Kupsus Gallery in Budapest, Thursday Foundation, the collection of the Art Newspaper (UK) journalist Simon Hewitt in Geneva, and in private collections worldwide.
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