Irene is a multidisciplinary artist from South Tyrol, Italy. Her practice encompasses sculpture, photography, moving image, installation, and performative interventions. Grounded in close observation and spatial sensitivity, her work focuses on materials and on processes of transformation and transience. At the core of her practice is the concept of embodied knowledge—an understanding of nature, the body, and memory that is rooted in physical experience.


EDUCATION


2023 - 2025
MA FINE ARTS |  Institut Art Gender Nature
FHNW – HGK, Basel (CH)


2021-2023
(PREDIPLOMA) MEDIA ART | Eli Cortiñas
Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig (DE)


2018 - 2021

BACHELOR OF ARTS
Design and Arts - major art 
Free University of Bolzano, Bozen (IT)



WORKSHOPS & ART RESIDENCIES

2025
WORKSHOP LA FUNDACIÓN BOTÍN Edible Sculptures | Shimabuku 
Santander (SP)

2022 - 2023
WORKSHOP Autonomy, Collectivities and Role play | Ana Maria Millan
Leipzig (DE)

2020 - 2021
ARTISTIC PRACTICE Words on a Body | Otobong Nkanga
Bozen (IT)


group exhibitions 

2025 A FRIEND OF A FRIEND OF A FRIEND, curated by Cruz Nazar, Der Tank, Basel (CH)

2024 STRIVING FOR COMMON ACCESS, curated by Catherin Schöberl, Pascale Grau & Raphael Reichert,
            Projektraum M54, Visarte Region Basel (CH)

2024 DUENDE! curated by Filipa Ramos, Atelier Mondial, Basel (CH)

2024 SALON, Pandibosco, curated by Emily Mary Whitaker & Salphinah Savin, Basel (CH)

2023 Processing Stones, Pre-diploma Exhibition HGB, Eli Cortiñas, Leipzig (DE)

2023 Reading Stones - Stones in a Process, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig (DE)

2022 Shoot & Think/Negotiation Images, curated by Eva Leitolf & Giulia Cordin, Foto Wien Festival, FreiRaum/MQ-Wien, Wien (AU) 

2022 Speed Exhibition, curated by Christin Lahr & Stephan Riebel, HGB Saal, Leipzig (DE)

2022 Rundgang HGB,curated by Christin Lahr, Leipzig (DE)

2021 Interpretation of “Fossils“, Free University of Bolzano (IT)

2020 - 2021 Willi The Cat, curated by Massimo Bartolini & Luca Trevisani, Fondazione Antonio dalle Nogare, Bozen (IT)

2020 Attitudes Become Reform, curated by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Stefano Riba, Gerhard Glüher,
            VR-Exhibition, produced by Free University of Bolzano (IT)

2019 Tree Time, curated by Massimo Bartolini & Luca Trevisani, Bolzano (IT)

2019 Violent Images, curated by Eva Leitolf & Giulia Cordin, Bolzano (IT)

2018 KiniCO, curated by Chiara Ducchi, Anomalia, Basalgo di Pinè - Trento (IT)

2018 Genre as Genre / Documenting Ideas, curated by Stefano Graziani & Giulia Cordin, Free University of Bolzano (IT)

2017 Gäste Ospiti Guests, Free University of Bozen (IT)  


publications

2022 Vertical Perspective, Dominant Perspective, Giulia Cordin in conversation with Irene SabineRainer und Marco Ferrari - Parallel Spaces, p. 10 - 17; ISBN 978 88 942888 89

2022 shared space, Shoot & Think, Negotiating Images Volume 1, Eva Leitolf, Giulia Cordin,  ISBN 978 88 942 888 72

2022 SHOOT & THINK - alto.bz- Redaktion (10.04.2022)

2020 Nello, con lo, attraverso lo spazio: “WILLI the Cat” alla Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare Allegra Bag- gio Corradi - Franzmagazine (November12, 2020)Nello, con lo, attraverso lo spazio: “WILLI the Cat” alla Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare Allegra Bag- gio Corradi - Franzmagazine (November12, 2020)



contact: irene@irenerainer.com

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