Rina Lipkind is a Berlin-based artist. She has studied painting, media art, and stage design: her practice is not bound to a specific medium, but to ideas, which manifest themselves in various forms. Her interest lies mainly in: spatial imagination, visualization, model making, bookbinding.
Education
2023-2025
Technical University of Berlin,
Stage Design and scenic space
2018-2023
University of Applied Arts Vienna,
Digital Art
2021-2022
Athens School of Fine Arts,
Multimedia
2016-2018
University of Applied Arts Vienna,
Painting
2014-2016
State School No. 2054, Moscow,
Theatre class (acting, stage movement, scenic speech)
2009-2016
Artistic design workshop, Moscow
Professional Experience
2018–2019
Communication and marketing assistant:
Social media management and print design for the
University of Applied Arts Vienna
2019–2021
Personal assistance for people with disabilities:
Household help, personal care
2021–2022
Bookbinder at the Edition’e book workshop:
Various types of binding work, book assembly,
paper and leather work
2023–2024
Assistant of Matthias Werner (stage designer):
Modelmaking, visualization, assistance on stage
construction rehearsals
since 2023
Stagehand at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin:
Set assembly and disassembly, reconstruction,
and stage lighting during performancesSelected exhibitions and internships
2025
- Presentation of the master project “Bodenlos” based on the book by Vilém Flusser as part of the exhibition “Zeit Szene” at the Teufelsberg exhibition space
- Costume and set design for the short film «Mina» by Tolganay Talgat, German Film and Television Academy Berlin
2024
- Model building, visualizations, and assistance with rehearsals for various theater productions («Faust:
The Tragedy Part One,» Nationaltheater Weimar; «The Fall of the House of Usher,» Staatstheater Mainz; «The Little Witch,» Staatstheater Mainz)
- Costume and set design for the short film «The King’s Garden» by Daniil Bielosheikin, German Film and Television Academy Berlin
2023
- Organization of the exhibition (including a pop-up bar and a sound performance) «Heaven is a place,» an exhibition of the artist’s own artwork «Bar Heaven» at Zirkusgasse 38 in Vienna
- Exhibition of the work «From other birds and others of its kind» as part of the final exhibition «Finals» 2023 at Galerie Krinzinger Schottenfeld
2022
- Exhibition of the sculpture «Signs of Signals» as
part of the group exhibition «Up there my eyes were breathing,» curated by raus.project in Athens
- Contribution of an artwork and a text to the art magazine «ROT,» based in Berlin and published in São Paulo. Publication events took place in Berlin and Athens
- Exhibition of the book object «The Antenna Book of Athens» at the Angewandte Festival at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and as part of the Criatech Festival in Portugal
2019
- Exhibition of the sculpture «Audio Monument – B.R.» at the Applied Arts Festival at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Participation in Rosa Andraschek’s project «412 Names» as a performer in Hirtenberg
2018
- Exhibition of the sculpture «Audio monument – B.R.» at the Open House at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
2017
- «Untitled offff_course», exhibition of a series of paintings and graphic works in Galerie Z in Hard
- Participation in EKSPERIMENTA!, the International Triennial for Contemporary Art in Tallinn