Rina-Green Noodle

Rina-Green Noodle (Irina Sinichkina) creates textile works filled with stories, meanings and care for the world. Her pieces grow out of recycled materials, old clothes and fabrics that have already lived a long life. In her carpet-paintings and soft sculptures, emotions, memories and traces of time are held and woven together.

She calls herself a “trash artist", seeing discarded things as carriers of life that are ready for a new form. The “Noodle" in her artist name comes from the process itself: small fragments of fabric twist and gather into a continuous flow of lines and textures, reminiscent of streams of noodles.

Artist statement

The practice of Rina-Green Noodle emerges from slow, tactile work with material. Textile becomes a field where everyday history, previous uses and personal memories are transformed into new images. Each strip of fabric acts as a stitch in a larger narrative that does not impose a storyline, but invites the viewer to read traces of time, movement and touch.

Working with recycled materials turns into both an ecological and emotional gesture. Her carpets and soft sculptures generate a sense of shelter and care, holding together vulnerability and resilience. The works exist as independent objects and at the same time as fragments of a larger textile world, where attention to “small" things opens space for new stories and ways of being together.

Education and membership in professional organisations

since 2025 – Member of the worldwide creative association European Textile Network
since 2016 – Professional artistic practice based on a reinterpreted American rug hooking technique
since 2016 – Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, decorative and applied arts section
2010–2012 – Studied in the studio of artist Vasily Florensky
1993–1998 – Institute of Contemporary Art (ISI), Journalism Studio, degree “Journalist, editor of television programs", Moscow, Russia

Cooperation with galleries

since 2025 – A2 Galerie, Potsdam, Germany
since 2024 – Zotov Center, Moscow, Russia
since 2023 – GRAUD Solyanka, Moscow, Russia
since 2021 – TEXTURA Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Publications

April 2025 – Textile Art Magazine. Interview with Russian textile artist Irina Sinichkina (Rina Green Noodle) (link)

2024 – YouTube. Video: “Rina Green Noodle. Textile art." (accessed 14.05.2025)

June 2022 – Newspaper Zvezdny Boulevard, article “Portrait of Mozart made of crepe de chine", No.19 (2022). PDF version available online (link)

Solo exhibitions

2025
– Magadan: Beyond the Myths, cultural and exhibition center Rynda, Magadan (16 April – 31 July)
 Publication about the exhibition in The Art Newspaper
– Nails Salon Needlework Show, solo project, New York, USA (03 – 26 April)
 Publication about the opening on the institution's Instagram

2024
– Archaeology of Sleep, House of Writers' Creativity, Peredelkino, Moscow region (01 – 30 November)
– Atlas of Dreams, solo exhibition at the patchwork and quilting festival Soul of Russia, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow (07 – 16 June). Video report from the festival
– Moon in Pisces, solo exhibition, CCI Fabrika, Textura gallery, Moscow (06 – 24 March)

2023
– Vegetables, Par nik gallery, Arkhangelsk (12 – 21 May)
– 0.0. Zero Waste Art and Design, Krasnokholmskaya gallery, Moscow (July – 15 October)

2022
– Waiting, Thursday Foundation for Cultural Projects, Moscow (28 November – 15 December)
– Morally Obsolete, Izmailovo gallery, Moscow (02 – 26 June)
– Residency exhibition, online gallery Textura, Moscow (21 April – 01 May)

2021–2022
– Diamonds Ripened in the Sky, solo exhibition, NordWestArtSpace gallery, Saint Petersburg (22 December – 04 January)
– Heroes of a Neighbouring Cosmos, solo exhibition, Museum of Russian Lubok and Naïve Art, Moscow (27 January – 28 March)

Group exhibitions and projects

2021–2022
– Atmosphere Similar to My Salad, group exhibition, Saratov (19 December – 16 January)

2021
– Reflection in Water, international exhibition, State Museum-Reserve Izborsk (02 July – 06 September)
– Annual exhibition of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, Moscow (04 – 23 March)

2022
– Museum of Friends of Savva Yamshchikov, State Museum-Monument St Isaac's Cathedral, Petrozavodsk (17 March – 10 April)

Collections

State Museum of Russian Lubok and Naïve Art, Moscow
A. E. Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
State Museum-Reserve Izborsk
Private gallery Textura, Moscow
Private Museum of Friends of Savva Yamshchikov
Private collections in Russia, Germany and France