b. 1991 Tver, Russia
lives and works in Vienna
My artistic practice explores themes of corporeality, the sacred, and transformation, examining how cultural and social norms shape perceptions of the body and its boundaries.
Working with religious Baroque aesthetics through the lens of a queer-feminist perspective, I turn to the figure of the monster as an embodiment of otherness. I am interested in how the body becomes an object of interpretation and control, and how monstrosity emerges through the tension between established notions of normality and what falls outside their boundaries.
Materiality plays a central role in my practice. I work with porcelain, silicone, metal, and wax; the interplay between these materials allows me to create hybrid forms existing somewhere between the alluring and the unsettling, the sacred and the profane. Within these forms, monstrosity ceases to signify exclusion and becomes a way of rethinking corporeality.
EDUCATION
2016 – 2026 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Fine Arts
Class of Erwin Bohatsch, Abstract Painting (until 2020)
Class of Julian Göthe, Sculpture (since 2020)
2019 Royal Institute of Art Stockholm (exchange semester)
2015 State Stieglitz Academy of Art and Design, Saint Petersburg
Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree Programme, Department of Plastic Arts / Ceramics
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2027 Upcoming: Weltangst / Angstlust, Wien Museum musa, Vienna
Upcoming: Vienna Editions, Wien Museum musa, Vienna
2026 Upcoming: ICEP Charity Auction, Vienna
Crawling Home, Salzburg
2025 Monstrum Sacrum (solo exhibition), Dominican Church, Kunsthalle Krems
Gott und Geld, Stift Klosterneuburg
2023 Über das Neue. Wiener Szenen und darüber hinaus, Part 3, Belvedere 21, Vienna
Seven Deadly Sins, Kunsthalle Krems
Life on its own, Kunstraum Schwaz
2022 Snakes have many Faces (solo exhibition), Sotheby’s Artist Quarterly, Vienna
ZONE1 solo positions, VIENNACONTEMPORARY Art Fair, Vienna
Skulpturgarten, PARALLEL & Never at Home, Palais Auersperg, Vienna
BLASFEMinISTKI, Dom Norymberski, Kraków
Further exhibitions and projects available in full CV.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2025 Stiftmuseum Klosterneuburg
2024 Wien Museum
TEACHING
2023 Guest lecturer, New Design University St Pölten (AT)
2022 Guest lecturer, University of Arts Linz (AT)
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2026 Finalist, Ö1 Talent Scholarship for Visual Arts (decision pending, autumn 2026)
Project Grant, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Finalist, Queer Art Prize, Vienna
2025 Recognition Award, St. Leopold Peace Prize, Klosterneuburg
2020 1st Prize, Design and Realisation of Art Objects as Awards for the Diversitas Prize Ceremony 2020, Vienna
2019 Erasmus+ Mobility Grant, Royal Institute of Art Stockholm
3rd Prize, “Vzlet VDNH” Competition, Moscow
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2025 Ausstellungen in Wien, PARNASS 3/2025, Vienna
Gott und Geld, Exhibition Catalogue, Stift Klosterneuburg
2023 Spot On, PARNASS 4/2023, Vienna
On the New. Viennese Scenes and Beyond, Exhibition Catalogue, Belvedere 21, Vienna
7 Deadly Sins, Exhibition Catalogue, Kunsthalle Krems
2022 PARNASS Heft 3/2022 September-Dezember
Die Presse , Issue Nr.23.083 2.September 2022
2021 Back again: zeitgenössische Keramik, PARNASS Special 2021, Vienna
PARNASS Auctions & Fine Arts, Special / Herbst
2020 Salone Interior Magazine Russia, Issue No7/8 (261) July-August