Ira Melkonyan

Ira Melkonyan is a Ukrainian artist and biologist from Odesa who lives between Malta and Amsterdam. Her work combines performance, installation and research on biological fluids. She holds an MA in Theatre from DasArts in Amsterdam. She is a founding member of the Rubberbodies Collective. In 2024 she was an artist in residence at Kinosaki International Arts Center, where she developed Blood Thirsty, a lecture performance and installation on female hormones and blood. The project was shown in an open rehearsal on 19 October 2024.