Carina Khorkhordina (b. 1991) is a trumpet player, photographer, videographer and an interdisciplinary artsit living in Berlin since 2014. She has been performing in the context of improvised and experimental music since 2017. The active groups include the duos with Eric Bauer, Lorena Izquierdo, Eric Wong, Axel Dörner, the 11-piece ensemble Klub Demboh as well as a variety of ongoing collaborations. Recently she's been working, among others, with Stefan Schneider, Billy Roisz, Tintin Patrone, Katharina Grosse, Sven-Åke Johansson, Katinka Kleijn, Daniel Blumberg, Miki Yui, Nicolas Humbert.
Aside from developing her music on the trumpet and playing concerts, between 2020 and 2024 she made a series of site-specific performances in the public space of Berlin, as well as in Mexico and Spain, both solo and in collaboration with different musicians, presented as short films and bringing together her interest in urban space, sonic possibilities of the trumpet, field recordings and video documentation.
Between 2016 and 2020 she was a student of various contemporary photography programs at FotoDepartament Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia.
She also works as a portrait photographer and live music videographer.
CONTACT: khorkhordina at protonmail dot com