Polynyak Anastasiya

Biography

Have you ever met people who admitted that they were born in the wrong century? It's me. I have seemed out of date for as long as I can remember. In my city, I looked for corners with ancient architecture and huge trees, volumes of poetry were constantly changing in my bag for several years, I dreamed of learning French, mastering the piano and walking around in white and long.
It seemed to me that if there are past lives, then there was something very important lost in mine. I couldn’t shake the feeling that my blancmange, a white dog, had once been taken from my hands, lifted from an antique sofa made by Gambs and thrown onto the cold asphalt of the late 20th century with the words “live here as you wish.”
When I wrote a series about pre-revolutionary times, I had the feeling that I was closing the gestalt, living out what had not been lived through, and finally returning the lost pieces of the puzzle.

This inner work helps me accept the present moment with pleasure and lead the second series - about what surrounds me today. Humor and observation take center stage here. It’s like I’m collecting diamonds in a treasury: what a cat looks like when he secretly eats from my plate, a funny sign in an Abkhazian cafe, the southern flavor of a plump girl on an Adler bus.

What unites these two collections is a naive style - a direction that helps me convey what I myself love most: a positive outlook on the world, honesty, humor, emotions, freedom of expression and spontaneity.

Born on December 18, 1985 in Chelyabinsk.
2003 - 2008 - studied at the Chelyabinsk Art School.
Since 2011 - member of the Youth Union of Artists.
Since 2013, Anastasia has held about 20 personal exhibitions in Chelyabinsk and cities of the Chelyabinsk region.
In 2013, she became a finalist in the international competition “Tears of Happiness” in Oxford.
In 2015 she moved to St. Petersburg, where she held exhibitions in Annenkirche and the Library of the Academy of Sciences.
In 2017-2023, Anastasia held personal exhibitions at the Vyborg Castle and the Art Hall gallery of the Hermitage-Vyborg exhibition center, and participated in the Art Hall group exhibitions.
October 2023 - participation in an exhibition at the Golden Duck Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
November 2023 - publication in Art Agent magazine.