Iryna Beschetnova creates performative works and performs herself.
Her performances are often interdisciplinary, combining physicality, painting, video, and texts.
WOMAN(?)-ARTIST(?) IN WARTIME(?)
2025
Video performance
Meaning after Loss, exhibition (Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine)
Nominee at the Golden FEMI Film Festival 2026 (Bulgaria)
Official Selection for the MORPHÉ Film Festival 2027 (Ukraine)
In this video-performance Iryna Beschetnova is exploring self-identification as a woman and woman-artist in actual Ukrainian realities. She is looking for answers to seemingly simple questions “How do I know I’m a woman? How do I know I’m an artist? How I feel it now?”
The film became a nominee at the Golden FEMI Film Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria, and has been officially selected to be included in the MORPHÉ Film Festival 2027 (Ukraine).
Idea, director, performer: Iryna Beschetnova
DoP: Valeriia Beschetnova
LECTURE DESSINÉE
(DRAWING READING)
2023
Literary-visual performance
Embassy of Ukraine in France, Paris
This work by Iryna Beschetnova for the French audience combined texts of Ukrainian poets read by performers, and drawings created live by an artist, allowing the audience to experience the texts aurally and visually.
Performers: Olena Davydenko, Clémence Laboureau
Artist: Max Zabrodsky
Idea, stage direction: Iryna Beschetnova
L'UKRAINE INCONNUE
(UNKNOWN UKRAINE)
2023
La Faïencerie Theatre, Creil, France
This Iryna Beschetnova's three-part work offered the French public a “degustation” of classical Ukrainian authors. Excerpts from the texts were presented through different performative practices such as physical theatre and shadow theatre.
During the performance actors interacted with the audience in Ukrainian and French.
Performers: Iryna Beschetnova, Kseniia Onyshchenko, L’Heure Avant L’Aube acting course
Idea, stage direction: Iryna Beschetnova
A (UKRAINIAN) MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
2022
Video performance
Finborough Theatre, UK / Stage UA
Shakespeare's classic text, adapted and translated to Ukrainian by Mariia Hrunicheva, was staged online in British-Ukrainian collaboration of the Stage UA and the Butterfly Theatre Collective.
Text: William Shakespeare
Director: Mariia Hrunicheva
Iryna Beschetnova, performer, as Peaseblossom
EVAPORATIONS
(VANISHINGS)
2022
Convergence Plateau Festival, Paris, France
Work that explores loneliness, unspoken and the scars left by absence. The story of a family torn apart by departure, in which those who remain speak to each other for the first time. Almost 100,000 Japanese people each year decide to disappear and live as outcasts after an event experienced as a failure. They are called Johatsu, the Disappeared...
Text: Camille Nauffray
Stage director: Serge Nikolaï
Iryna Beschetnova, performer, as Sister