Artist statement

My practice is an interrogation of the “shattered whole.” Having immigrated from the rigid structuralism of Soviet classical training to the fluid, pluralistic landscape of Germany in the early 1990s, I view the canvas as a site of psychological and historical reconstruction. I do not seek to repair the fragments of identity, I aim to map them.

My work is defined by a layered topography of memory. Influenced by the weight of life under the Soviet regime and the migration to Germany, I utilize a mosaic-like deconstruction to challenge the boundary between the ancient and the contemporary. The compositions often originate in a submerged state – a heavy, nocturnal depth of indigos that represent the subconscious or the buried past. From this foundation, the work takes a direction, fracturing into luminous, crystalline cells of light as it reaches the surface. This is not a decorative pattern, but a visceral architecture of internal space.

By synthesizing the rhythmic rigor of mosaic techniques with the raw emotionality of German Expressionism, my paintings function as psychological blueprints. I am fascinated by the moment where disparate, often discordant histories align into a singular, monumental equilibrium. Ultimately, these are active environments that demand the viewer navigate the thin line between structured order and spiritual abstraction.