About Anna Nezhnaya
(*198X Moskau, RUS) Anna Nezhnaya is a visual artist and performer. She has been living and working in Berlin since 2016. With her biographical background in graphic design (Moscow State University of Graphic and Printing Arts) and art history (University of Greifswald), she explores traditional imagery in the context of the present. She examines sacred places in everyday life, spiritual currents in the Western world and their transformation in the recent past. To this end, she elegantly combines digital drawings and paintings with light art to create a visual field of experimentation from which her iconic neon sculptures emerge. Anna's work oscillates between objectivity and abstraction and between manual and digital practices. Her approach often deals with concepts of identity in the post-internet age. With her paintings and light objects, she seeks to make the fine line between physical and virtual reality artistically productive. As a student of the painter Andrej Golder, she also develops experimental painting techniques to create innovative surface structures. In her characteristic works, the artist reflects aspects of a grotesque feminism and explores images of femininity from the fields of mysticism, metaphor and contemporary culture.
Fun fact
Has a swing in her Kreuzberg studio
