
Nina Donis
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Nina Donis
Born in Moscow, Donis Pouppis spent the bulk of his childhood and adolescence in Cy-
prus. In 1996, he left the Mediterranean island to attend the Textile Academy of Moscow,
where he met the person who would become his fellow traveler, Nina Neretina, an art
student from a town close to Voronezh who headed for the Russian capital after graduating
from college. From this encounter, an uncommon aesthetic was born, one situated some-
where between the functionalism of Soviet constructivism, avant-garde and continuous
references to pop culture.
Nina Donis, the brand created by the two, was gradually making a name for itself, ...