Through the painting I explore landscape as an idea—evoking space that is much bigger than just a place. I have come to think of a landscape as a multidimensional space where ideas about a plurality of the worlds could be discussed.

In the space of an omnipresent landscape, the scale of everyday activities and the scale of world-changing events are equalized, and the temporalities of plural worlds exist simultaneously. I imagine there are moments of distortion when things come across each other, and a border between plural realities becomes permeable for a second. Then small and ordinary things, like a uniform, might enable bigger conversations, making you think of other things and places. From this position, we come to see how mundane things are parts of the things universal.

Coming back to the same subject or source image is deliberate and formative. It stands for plurality, seasons, migrations, tides, and strain. I am entering these conversations through painting. Titles are ways into knowing, they are a trope and a starting point for the journey leading beyond the visual.

Education

BFA, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag, 2018-2023

MArch, 2,5 year Master program in Theory and History of Architecture, Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts Yekaterinburg, 2008-2011

BArch, Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts, Yekaterinburg, 2004-2008

Exhibitions

2023 Too Early Too Late, Graduation Show, Royal Academy of Art The Hague

2022 Three Birds, No Stone, Verheeskade 323, The Hague, Netherlands, Pre-graduation show

2022 To Give a Dog a Name, BillyTown, Den Haag, Netherlands

Publications

2023 The KABK Graduation Catalogue, KABK, Den Haag, Nederland