Kristina Burbela

Kristina Burbela (b. 1992) is a contemporary feminist artist based in Torino, Italy.
Through painting, embroidery, installations, and object-based works, she examines female corporeality, resistance to patriarchy, and the effects of systemic and political violence on women's bodies. Drawing on her academic training and practice as a litigation lawyer (BA and MA in Law), Burbela addresses how bodies become sites of control — and how art can function as a form of resistance and empowerment.
Her work also explores neurodivergence and mental health, shaped by her own late diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and ADHD, as part of a broader commitment to questioning normative structures.
Her work has been shown at the ArtNeuroVerse Biennale at Sviva Art Space (Tel Aviv, 2024), solo exhibition "A Tigress Must Have a Fur" at Auditoria Belgrade (2026), solo exhibition and residency at Nova Riznica — European Art Community of Montenegro (Budva, 2024), and "Inclusion of Life" at the Zverev Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow, 2021).

Education
2015–2017 — Master of Laws, Lipetsk State Technical University, Russia
2011–2015 — Bachelor of Laws, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Russia
Professional Training & Workshops
2025:
street art workshop of the artist Slava PTRK,
lecture series from the project ArtNeuroVerse Biennale,
2022:
3-month internship with Weld Queen (theory and practice of creating public art),
6-month workshop of the artist-ceramist Anna Rymar,
2021 — 2-month art historian intensive "I am in contemporary art",
2020 — Introduction to Art History, HSE (Higher School of Economics), Moscow, Russia

Selected Solo-exhibitions
2026 — A Tigress must have a Fur, Auditoria Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
2024 — Notes on This, Montenegro European Art Community, Budva, Montenegro
2021 — Inclusion of Life (as part of the "In Progress" art team), Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Selected Group Exhibitions & Biennales
2025 - I see You, ArtNeuroVerse Biennale curated by Kate Finkelstein, Larisa Talis, Design Terminal Gallery, Bat Yam, Israel
2024:
Let me be your friend, ArtNeuroVerse Biennale in co-operation with Second floor Ramat Gan Youth Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Prayers. Anecdotes. Toasts, curated by Kate Finkelstein, Ramat-Gan, Israel
DiverCITY, ArtNeuroVerse Biennale in co-operation with HaMecarer Gallery, Israel
I see You, ArtNeuroVerse Biennale curated by Kate Finkelstein, Larisa Talis, Sviva Art Space, Tel Aviv
2023 — Ten, Museum Gostinye Dvory, Arkhangelsk, Russia
2022 — New technologies, School of Creative Industries, Lipetsk, Russia
2021:
Creatura mortis, gallery Buksir, Lipetsk, Russia
Not touching the body, YY modern art fund, Moscow, Russia
I am here and now, YY modern art fund, Moscow, Russia
Looking after Earthlings, gallery "HERE on Taganka", curated by Andrey Bartenev, Moscow, Russia
XY, Moscow, Russi...