Anastassia Skopp

The studio is where the noise stops.

Before I enter, I am a mother of two daughters, a wife, a person carrying the weight of ordinary life — worries about the future, about family, about everything that waits outside the door.

But somewhere between stretching the linen — I only use pure linen or heavy cotton, fabrics so alive you want to run your hand across them before a single brushstroke — and mixing the first colours, something shifts. The thoughts don't stop all at once. They slow. Then slow further. And by the time the palette knife reaches the canvas and the first petal takes shape, they are simply gone.

I have been a student of Eckhart Tolle since 2017. His teaching didn't give me a philosophy. It gave me a practice. And that practice, I discovered, lives most naturally in paint. In 2019, I had the rare gift of attending his three-day retreat here in Germany. It was an experience that cannot be put into words.

Each flower I build with the palette knife is not planned. It arrives. The colour was chosen earlier, yes — but the petal itself happens in the Now. There is no past in that gesture. No future. Only the resistance of linen, the weight of paint, and the delicate silence that follows when the thinking mind finally s...

1984 - 1991 State Mordovian Art College named after P.F. Ryabov. Graduated with a diploma in drawing, composition, art of painting and sculpture. Saransk, Russia

1994 - 1996 Art course “Classic Painting.” Saransk, Russia

2014 - 2017 Bachelor of Arts in Social Work, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

2026, Mai - Affordable Art Fair Austin

2025,  April - Group exhibition "Flora: The Art of Blooming", Artseeker Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC, USA

2024, Oktober - Art eshibition "Exploring the Beauty", Art Voyage Gallery,  Zofingen, Switzerland

2024, April - Art exhibition "The Little Sun in the Cold Water", Paulo de Brio Gallery, Starnberg, Germany

2024, February - Group Exhibition "Coming and Going", Galeria Gaudi, Madrid, Spain

2024, January - International Art Fair, Paris Art Salon, Paris, France

2023, December - "Woman: Balancing Our World" at the Mora Museum, New York, USA

2023, October - International Art Exhibition “Rebirth”, Contemporary Art Gallery, Starnberg, Germany

2023, October - International Art Fair “Art Innsbruck”, Austria

2023, August - International Art Fair, "Art Monaco", Monte-Carlo, Monaco

2023, Mai - EOS Laboratorio delle Arti, "Emozioni in Mostra", La Galleria Sant'Andrea, Parma, Italy

2023, April - Collins Avenue in Miami, "Just Summer On My Mind", Miami, USA

2023, January - International Art Fair, Paris Art Salon, Paris, France.

2022, Dezember - "Golden Duck" Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2022, November - EOS Laboratorio delle Arti, Parma, Italy

2022, November -ARTBOX.PROJECT Miami 3.0 , Miami, USA

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