Irina Razumovskaya: KORE

The first major museum solo exhibition by the London-based sculptor Irina Razumovskaya, bringing together 26 works in terracotta, porcelain and steel. About KORE is the first major museum solo exhibition by the London-based sculptor Irina Razumovskaya, who won the 1st Prize at the 15th Westerwald Prize in 2024. It brings together 26 works in terracotta, porcelain and steel, made mostly in 2026, and is curated by the museum's director, Prof. Nele van Wieringen. Razumovskaya builds her works, allows them to break in the making, and then shows what holds the pieces together. Along one wall, Lacunae sets out terracotta tablets in the manner of a lapidarium, each carrying an order addressed to women distilled from Xenophon's fourth-century BC manual on running a household, with every fissure filled in a pale flesh-pink glaze. Three porcelain figures, Graeae, stand in pieces on tall tiled pedestals, held together and apart by galvanised builders' scaffolding. Five empty vessels, Amphorae, each 85 cm high, stand in a row on a long low table. The title is the Greek word for maiden and daughter, and another name for Persephone, the daughter carried off to the underworld while her mother searched for her.