Anna Zeltcman

I was born in 1983 in Saint-Petersburg (Russia) and still live there. Since 2017 I am a member of the St. Petersburg Creative Union of Artists (IFA).

My favourite artists are Kandinsky, Filonov, Miro, Pollock, Schiele. From now living artists - Vladimir Shinkarev, Julia Linzbach. Not even certain works of art but creative methods of these artists fill me with inspiration.
I am inspired by old cracked walls, with falling off stucco and drips of paint. .
I prefer to work in oils as they allow to work for long, crayon for its easy drawing, watercolor for its transparency. I always try to find the new ways of applying the material.

I believe that understanding (especially when it comes to abstraction) is completely unnecessary and sometimes it can even distort our perception. I want the audience to trust their imagination while looking at paintings and to see whatever they want.
With this, to know about the author's interpretation of the picture is not only optional, but also undesirable. Thus, I claim the principle of intellectual liberty in art not only for the author, but also for the viewer.

From 1989 to 1999 I attended the visual art-studio in the Palace of Youth Creativity (Anichkov Palace). In 2007 I graduated from the St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, the Faculty of Architecture.

I participated in the following group exhibitions:

Nov. 2009 - the final exhibition of the fifth young artists' contest “ORIENTIRY” (painting), Manege, the small hall

May 2011 - "Space-Art" within the event "Museum night" (painting)

April 29 - May 4, 2014 - "Cube in spring" (painting, graphics)

Dec. 26, 2017 - Jan. 20, 2018 - "Works of the year" (painting), exhibition hall of IFA

June 14 -28, 2018 - "Made in Japan" (painting), exhibition hall of IFA

Dec. 26, 2018 - Jan. 20, 2019 - "Works of the year" (painting), exhibition hall of IFA


Solo exhibitions:

Dec. 5, 2015 - Jan. 23, 2016 - "The tenth dimension" (painting, installation), the "Ligovskaya" Library

Feb. 2 - March 30, 2018 - "Sense of Landscape" (painting), the Children' Library named after Korolenko

June 18 - July 4, 2018 - "From all sides" (graphics), Art and Music Center of the Library named after Mayakovsky

Jan.22 - Feb.2, 2019 - "On the halfway" (graphics, sketches, collages), Borey Art Center

The works are in private collections and in the collection of Borey Art Center.