The whole world is created for you.
Inscription in Braille.
2016, canvas, acrylic, stones, 4 canvas 80x100 sm
1-100x100 sm.
The work was done for the PROTEATR, Festival of Inclusive Theater.
The whole world is created for you.
Inscription in Braille.
2016, canvas, acrylic, stones, 4 canvas 80x100 sm
1-100x100 sm.
The work was done for the PROTEATR, Festival of Inclusive Theater.
The whole world is created for you.
Inscription in Braille.
2016, canvas, acrylic, stones, 4 canvas 80x100 sm
1-100x100 sm.
The work was done for the PROTEATR, Festival of Inclusive Theater.
Painting, video, installation, performance
Berlin, Deutschland

I studied fine arts, art philosophy and performance in Moscow and have been living in Berlin since 2017.
I understand myself as a feminist multidisciplinary artist and work on taboo and social topics as well as the whole range of our personal experiences and how they relate to the individual topics through various media (painting / installation and performance / video and drawing / graphic novel).
My work deals with topics such as memory, violence, trauma, our relationship to our bodies, and the personal as political. I’m primarily concerned with how the private and public can influence, transform, construct, represent and deconstruct reality.
I work with social issues and adhere to the principle of maximum connection to personal experience and contact with the topic. The idea of art’s social responsibility is significant to me. The sincerity of my research and the engagement of the viewer is essential. Therefore, my projects are often participatory.
My painting / drawing work flows into graphic novels and in space installations.
Art should evoke emotions. They make you think. The artist who tries to convey their feelings with their art understands how others will react to their statement, gesture, action. Will the viewer smile or squeeze their fists and become angry? It is very important.
Artist statement
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Education
Art in Context. UDK BerlIn. 2021
School of Performance Pyrfir. Certification. Performance Art. Moscow, Russia. 2017
Institute for Contemporary Art BAZA. Certification. Philosophy of Art. Moscow, Russia. 2017
Institute for Problems of Contemporary Art. M.F.A.,Project Management, Moscow, Russia. 2003
State University of Print Media. M.F.A., Artistic Graphics, Moscow, Russia. 2001
School of Cinematographic Animation. U.S. High School Equivalent. Moscow, Russia. 1997
Solo Exhibitions
2020 "Repatriates. The lost branches." Galerie der Einheit. Potsdam, (D)
2020 "Exercises." Vinogradov Gallery, Berlin, (D)
2020 “Forgive us Rosa Luxemburg”, Lauschengrif, Berlin, Germany
2018 “Refrain”, BLAH BLAH Projektraum, , Berlin, Germany
2017 "Hand swing", Fine Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2015 "Texte"Simon Mraz Residence, Russian-Austrian Cultural Forum, , Moscow, Russia
2014 Performance "The Stairs", ArtPlay, Moscow, Russia
2014 “Why do I always feel guilty?", Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2012 "Stage 2", Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Public Collections
Thoughts on the Road Series, Fund of Smirnow Sorokin, Moscow, Russia. Acquired 2015
Works are in private collections of Mikhail Sidlin, Simon Mraz, Mikhail Alshibaya and others in Russia, Germany, and Canada. Works also acquired by collectors at auctions such as Vladey and VZGT 2 in Moscow, Russia.
Honors and Awards
2020 Preis von „Jury der Kommission „30 Jahre Friedliche Revolution und Deutsche Einheit“ (D)
Top 100 of the Rated Artists, Rating In Art, Moscow, Russia. 2018
Top 100 of the Rated Artists, Rating In Art, Moscow, Russia. 2017
Just Award 1st Prize, Moscow, Russia. 2014
Nomination "Project of the Year", Kandinsky Prize, Moscow, Russia. 2013
Special Award,Scotch, Moscow, Russia. 2010
Membership
Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin bbk berlin e.V., joined 2018
Moscow Artists Union, joined 2002
Curatorial projects
2016 - Cultural Center ZIL, Festival "Another Actor's Theater", Moscow, Russia
2014 - Gallery A3, "Behind Castle", Moscow, Russia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 2 Trienale zeitgenössisches Kunst. Fünfte Welle. Museum zeitgenössisches Kunst Garage. Moskau. (R)
2020 “Body”. ORI Künstlerische Forum, Berlin, Germany (D)
2019 “Unreal desires”. Somos, Berlin, Germany (D)
2019 “Berliner Transit”. Omsk, Russia
2019 “Interwinnen Bodies”, Somos, Berlin, Germany (D)
2019 “Grandma”. Old house. Berlin, Germany (D)
2018 "Hair". Moscow Modern Art Museum
2018 “Present continuous”, Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2018 Uzbekistan Biennale, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
2018 "There and now!" Manege, Moscow, Russia
2018 "Apology of Delusions", Moscow Modern Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
2018 "Exercise Sports Health2. Berlin, Germany
2018 "The new signs of existence", Quedlinburg, Germany
2018 "Survive", Berlin Art Week, Germany
2018 "Divinity Perspectives of a Higher Power", Berlin, Germany
2017 "11 New. Exhibition of Young Performance Artists ", State Gallery on Solyanka Street, Moscow
2017 "The pain and the will", Stella Art Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2017 "On the way to eternity", Moscow, Russia
2017 "Participants temporarily unavailable", "Moscow, Russia
2016 "Psycho", factory, Moscow, Russia
2016 "Raw / Cooked", Moscow Modern Art Museum, Russia
2016 Social and Artistic Project "Other Atmosphere", Children's Hospital in Tushino, Moscow, Russia
2015 "Her", Vladivostok, Russia, Russia
2015 "Russia vs. Russia ", Berlin, Germany
2015 "The Studio 2015", Moscow Modern Art Museum, Russia
2015 "The art communities", Moscow Museum, Russia
2015 "Like it!", Bogorodskoe Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2015 "A - the art, F - the feminism", Moscow, Russia
2015 "Co-Penetration", Nagornaya Gallery, 6th Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Russia
2015 "Panoptikum", special program of the 6th Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Russia
2015 "Pedartudar", Saint Petersburg, Russia
2014 Exhibitions "Just Award", laureate, Moscow, Russia
2014 "Behind Castle", Gallery A3, Moscow, Russia
2013 Long List of the Kandinsky Prize, Udarnik, Moscow, Russia
2013 "Feminist Pencil 2", 5th Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Sankt Peterburg, Russia, Oslo, Finland
2012 "The Way, the Railway", ArtPlay, Moscow, Russia
2011 "The End", apartment gallery «The End», Moscow, Russia
2011 "The Interior", Factory, 4th Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Russia
2011 "Freedom of choice", Factory, Moscow, Russia
2010 "ART-Moscow", special prize Scotch, Moscow, Russia
2009 "Russian Lettrism", Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Festivals
2015 festival "It can!", Krasnodar
2015 "Autumn Festival", Moscow
Further Training and Education
Projeckraum Mehrwert Kunst, Berlin, Germany. 2019
Art Summer School "What should I do?", Berlin 2015
Workshop “Qvirfemaklzia ", Vienna, Austria. 2014
Teaching
Workshop "Other Atmosphere", Children's Hospital in Tushino, Moscow, Russia. 2016
Master Class "Graphic novella", Kazan, Russia. 2016
College named Ivan Fedorov. Sabject: illustration, collage. 2014-2015