Lina Ivanova

Thank you to everyone who joined us in April and May for our workshops with Nastia Svarevska @ana11sva and Lina Ivanova @linavanova ! Both were a part of the ‘Under Construction’, a monthly series curated by Alisa Oleva @alisaoleva . These workshops invite artists and writers from diasporic backgrounds to think about the theme ‘under construction’. What happens when we move homes and we change languages? What remains unspeakable, what emerges in the gaps of translation? How are new identities constructed, and how can poetry express what otherwise remains unspeakable? Through poetry and shared reflection, participants explore what hides in the cracks and what haunts our ideas of ‘home’. Keep an eye on our feed and subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to hear about the upcoming workshops! 1-3: ‘Growing Home’, a workshop led by Lina Ivanova. Videos courtesy Pushkin House London. 4-6: ‘Lines Under Construction’, a workshop led by Nastia Svarevska. Photos by Pietro Molinaris @pietromolinaris . #PushkinHouse #PushkinHouseWorkshop

☀️ we promised sun and it did not disappoint ☀️ Museum of Connection has grown again with our second workshop @imtgallery on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon. @linavanova and I had the most wonderful time with a fab group, moving together, making together and slowing down together. Still sifting through all the amazing photos of the day but here are some highlights. Already looking forward to the next one to be announced very soon. Watch this space if you want to be a part of it 💙

Coming up this week | Growing Home: Planting as Language with Lina Ivanova Thursday 7 May 2026, 7–9 pm Ahead of our workshop with Lina @linavanova this Thursday, we invite you to take a glimpse into her past projects, including a long-term public art project at Croydon’s Reeves Corner with Turf Projects, alongside her personal practice of gardening. Drawing on personal narratives of migration, memory, and belonging, this intimate indoor workshop offers participants an opportunity to collectively reflect on our relationships with the natural world, and on how nurturing living things mirrors the care we extend to ourselves and one another. Attendees will plant seeds and seedlings to take home and, through open discussion and hands-on activity, create living objects that will continue to grow and evolve beyond our time together. Music: ‘Getting into the Gardening’ by DRYAKOBY @dryakoby (2026). #PushkinHouse #PushkinHouseWorkshop

It's a family affair 💑👨‍❤️‍👨 @krasimirabutseva @a_tanasov @bayryam.bayryamali and @linavanova featured in @_etcmagazine , curated by @vvvladimirovv Just landed from Ljubljana! 🛬 the magazine, not us ✨✨✨

Drawing The Space Inside My Hand with Lina Ivanova [@linavanova ] ✏️✋ Sat 16 May 11am-1pm Free & open to all! Drawing The Space Inside My Hand invites participants to explore drawing as a sensory and embodied practice. Taking place during the exhibition Tending, the workshop uses observational drawing to deepen ways of sensing and feeling. Participants will draw from the ceramic pieces in the show, as well as their own hands and each other’s, considering the hand as our first tool for making and tending. The session encourages slow looking, presence, and learning through the body. This workshop is open to the public and no prior drawing experience is required. 🔗 Link to upcoming events in bio!

Coming up in May | Growing Home: Planting as Language with Lina Ivanova 🌾 Thursday 7 May 2026, 7–9 pm We are very excited about the upcoming workshop with multidisciplinary artist Lina Ivanova, happening in a couple of weeks! The workshop is presented as part of our current ‘Under Construction’ series, curated by Alisa Oleva. Lina’s practice focuses on notions of place, heritage, and the experience of migration. Recently, she facilitated a long-term public art project at Croydon’s Reeves Corner, a site that has been inaccessible since the 2011 riots. By working with local communities to plant wildflowers on the disused land, her work explored what it means to bring life back to a contested space and cultivate a sense of belonging. The project was organised by Turf Projects @turfprojects . Building upon this connection between planting and placemaking, Lina will bring this methodology to Pushkin House. Participants are invited to explore planting as a form of care, communication, and homemaking. Through discussion, sharing, and practical activity, attendees will plant seeds and seedlings to take home, creating living objects that continue to grow beyond the workshop. 📘 We are also glad to share that a limited number of publications by @turfprojects documenting Lina’s Reeves Corner project will be available for purchase in our bookshop. 🔗 Book your tickets via the link in bio. #PushkinHouseLondon #LondonWorkshops

For the second workshop in the ‘Museum of Connection’ series, artists Georgia Clemson and Lina Ivanova invite participants to slow down and reflect on how we move through the world, and how our movements connect us to others. Together, participants will explore movement slowly and consciously, offering a pause from the fast pace of deadlines, to-do lists, and everyday routines. Through guided activities and group collaboration, gestures and shared poses will be transformed into cyanotype prints, an experimental photographic process that uses light and shadow to create vivid blue images. As a participant, you will also have the opportunity to contribute your work to the Museum’s growing archive, a living monument to community created through shared time, attention, and collaboration. 🎟️ ‘The Museum of Connection’ will take place on Saturday 9 May at 3pm. Space is limited. Follow the link in bio to book your place. #cyanotypeworkshop #londonworkshops #workshoplondon #londonartevents #londonevents

Our latest exhibition, Tending, invites you to linger a little longer, here are some ways you can tend to Tending 🌱 🙌 Add your own imprint to 'The Space Inside My Hand'! At a making station inside the gallery, Lina Ivanova invites you to play with some clay & leave your imprint to be fired & added to the exhibition. You are invited to carry these fired pieces with you as you experience other works in the space. ⛰️ Listen to Laura Selby's sculptural work and tend to the living moss 📗 Add your own reflections and collages to Becky Lyon's Muntjac community workbook. Come and tend to Tending during our opening hours until Sat 20 Jun, or join us at an upcoming event. Link in bio for more info! 🔗

Coming up in May | Growing Home: Planting as Language, with Lina Ivanova 🌱 Thursday 7 May 2026, 7-9 pm On 7 May, we invite you to an experimental workshop led by Lina Ivanova @linavanova that explores planting as a form of care, communication, and homemaking. Drawing on personal experiences of migration, memory, and belonging, participants will reflect on their relationships with plants, from houseplants to gardens, and consider how caring for living things mirrors caring for oneself and others. Through discussion, sharing, and practical activities, participants will plant seeds and seedlings to take home, creating living objects that will continue to grow beyond the workshop. About the Series This workshop is part of ‘Under Construction’, a monthly series curated by artist and PhD researcher Alisa Oleva @alisaoleva , running alongside the physical renovations of our building. Spotlighting artists and writers from diasporic backgrounds, the series explores what happens when we change languages, the identities that emerge in the gaps of translation, and the memories that haunt our ideas of home. 🔗 Book your tickets via the link in bio. #pushkinhouselondon

ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 Turf Projects is delighted to announce our upcoming exhibition, Tending. Growing roots planted last summer with At the Meadow’s Edge, Tending invites reflections on how we notice, care for and relate to each other and our environment. Artworks awakening the senses are shared alongside spaces for rest and reflection, with work from Lina Ivanova [@linavanova ], Becky Lyon [@elastic_fiction ], Meera Shakti Osborne [@mso_4rt ] and Laura Selby [@laura_selb ]. Taking place between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice, a full public programme of events will run alongside our gallery exhibition. Join us in cultivating deeper sensory awareness as a way of being present and curious in the world. For more information visit turf-projects.com 🌱

Embrace the power of collaborative creation in the first of a series of transformative workshops led by artist duo Georgia Clemson and Lina Ivanova, hosted by IMT Gallery. In ‘The Museum of Connection’ you are invited to explore the generative possibilities of collectivity through food, guided creative exercises, meditation and experimental camera-less photography. As a participant, you will have the opportunity to contribute what you make to the Museum’s growing archive, as a living monument to community, built within two fleeting hours, yet resonant with the lasting memory of connection. 🎟️ ‘The Museum of Connection’ will take place on Saturday 14 February at 6pm. Space is limited, follow the link in bio to book your place. #londonworkshops #workshoplondon #londonartevents #londonevents #londonarts

Before, during, and after This Is Not a Classroom! Safe to say, I'm still coming down🍃 Forever grateful to @krasimirabutseva for sowing the seed and everyone else for helping it grow along the way ~~~ @vvvladimirovv @aiko.lino @ko_op_sofia @a_tanasov @kitto.rent @chertov.ivan @imaginaryarchive @sheitan666_ Everyone who jumped on board, and spurred me on along the way, not just in the run up to the show but since the @ashfordschoolartdept residency back in 2016, when this work began - your support means the world!! Looking forward to what next year has on offer 🌪️