I was born in a small town in snow-white Siberia, where April, my month of birth, is still dead of winter. I spent my childhood in colourful Ukraine, at that time still a republic of the Soviet Union. As a pupil of an art school, I met figurative art at the age of five. Since then, the portrait has not left me.
In my studies of art in Dortmund, Germany, I focused on painting (Prof. Jan Kolata) and photography (Felix Dobbert), because these two disciplines hit the portrait particularly well. In my current work, I have finally decided on painting as my primary language.
My personal path is part of my creative process. I emigrated to Germany in the early 1990s as a teenager. From this point on, return, reflection and the search for the self form both my personal and artistic focus. I painterly explore the ideas of identity and emotion, their demarcation and interaction, as well as the interaction between image and viewer.
My portraits turn inwards. Over the bridge of empathy, they involve the viewer in an individual, wordless dialogue and thus create areas for reflection and space for emotion. My pictures therefore remain deliberately “unfinished”, they want the viewer to complete the story.
exhibitions
11|07 – 21|07 2024
11.07 – 21.07 2024: “MITosis – Kunst zwischen Verwandlung und Verbindung”, Kopfbau in Riem, Munich (group)
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14|05 – 14|07 2024
„Spiel Zeug“, Jahresausstellung GEDOK, Städtische Galerie im Fürstengang, Neuburg an der Donau (group)
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17|05 – 19|05 2024
„HAZE.UNTITLED VOL 001 x HAZE Artists „INTRO“, Haze Gallery, Großgörschenstr. 7, Berlin (group)
03|05 – 09|06 2024
„Close Closer Closed – Zwischen Nähe und Isolation “ Pop Up Gallery @KUNSTLABOR 2, München (solo)
24|03 – 05|05 2024
„Näherkommen“, Villa Blunk, Wriezen (solo)
08|03 – 20|04 2024
„The Female Show“, Munich Art Gallery – Projektraum Munich Art, Amalienstr. 14, München (group)
09|03 – 17|03 2024
BAODT Pop Up, Paris, 239 Rue Saint-Martin, 75003 Paris (group)
3|11 2023 – 27|1 2024
„INTERAKTIONEN“ – chARTer Projektgalerie, Leipzig (solo exhibition)
13|02 – 25|02 2024
BAODT Pop Up, Schwabinger Tor, Leopoldstraße 156, München (group)
02|011 – 30|11 2023
„Interpersonal Fiction“ – U-Bahn-Galerie Maxvorstadt, Munich (solo exhibition)
14|10 – 15|11 2023
„THE NEXT DOOR“, Off Space/ Zwischennutzung, Sendlinger Str 41, Munich (group exhibition)
8|9 – 3|10 2023
„TIME OUT“, Galerie Kunstwerk, Landshut (group exhibition)
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15|7 2023
THE ART OF MUNICH – SCHÖN! AM HORIZONT STRAHLT ZUKUNFT IN ALTBEWÄHRTER KUNST, Kunstblock Balve, Munich (group exhibition)
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2|6 – 24|6 2023
BAODT POP UP, Hofstatt, Munich (group exhibition)
29|4 – 1|5 2023
STROKE ART FAIR, Munich
29|4 2023
THE ART OF MUNICH – SCHWIMMEND! UNTER DEM EIS HÖRT MAN DAS KLOPFEN, Kunstblock Balve, Munich (group exhibition)
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14|4 – 31|5 2023
„Shopping mal 7“, WerkRaumSalon, Riem Arcaden, Munich (group exhibition)
13|4 – 4|6 2023
BAODT Pop Up, The Leo Grand, Vienna (group show)
16|4 – 6|5 2023
„Frequencies“, Kaiser.In.Art, Westermühlstr.8, Munich (solo exhibtition)
24 – 26|3 2023
ART MUC, Munich
08|3 – 16|4 2023
„The Female Show“, Munich Art Gallery, Amalienstr. 14, Munich (group show)
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07 – 10|1 2023
Trendset Fair, Munich
7|10 – 9|10 2022
ART MUC, Munich
22|04 – 21|05 2022
„Auf der Suche nach dem Wesentlichen“ – chARTer Projektgalerie, Leipzig (solo exhibition)
14|10 – 17|10 2021
ART MUC, Munich
7|10 – 10|10 2021
STROKE ART FAIR, Munich
15|7 – 18|7 2021
„WIEDE FABRIK“ – duo show with Nena Čermak curated by Anna Wondrak, Rambaldistr. 27, Munich
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17|5 – 29|5 2021
„SCHAU MICH AN“ – collaborative work in progress exhibition project at Achtzehnkommazwei, Georgenstr. 72, Munich
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6|1 – 30|1 2021
„ALONE. Pandemic Edition“ – Pop Up Gallery // live painting performance, Schleißheimerstr. 62., Munich
6|1 – 31|1 2021
„DREAMERS“ – U-Bahn-Galerie Maxvorstadt, Munich (urban art solo exhibition)
26|8 – 13|9 2020
„BEYOND FACES“ – Pop Up, Fürstenstr. 1, Munich (solo exhibition)
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2|3 – 8|3 2020
„A Changing Landscape & The Female I“ – Group Show, New York, Van der Plas Gallery