Anastasiia Borodina

Anastasia Borodina is a contemporary artist who works in traditional techniques and mediums studying the transformation of traditional symbols of European culture in modern society. Her area of interest is a person and how they communicate with the contemporary world surrounding them, finding for themselves certain points of support in the form of rituals, signs, and visual forms in the course of changes in human society. How they can resonate with those ritual or mythological forms that were understandable and familiar to people of past ages. In her research, Anastasia does not limit herself to one figurative language, selecting the most appropriate way of expressing each object using traditional fine art media.

Growing up in the North Caucasus and graduating with honours from the Ilya Repin’s Academy of Arts in Saint-Petersburg, she was inspired by the history and culture of the people from Western Asia. In the academy, Anastasia learned from the best representatives of the Russian classical school of painting in the workshop of renowned artist Yuri Kalyuta. Currently, she is living and working in Manchester, developing her oriental series of works and, in parallel, working on adapting the language of the classical school of painting to the modern artistic perception of objects surrounding us.

2023 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2023 New Light Prize Exhibition
2023 Chelsea Art Society Summer Exhibition
2023 Bath Society of Arts Annual Open Exhibition
2023 Comme ca Art x AWOL Studios
2022, 2021, 2020 The annual exhibitions of the New English Art Club (London)
2021, 2019 The annual exhibitions of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (London)
2018 The annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers (London)
2016 All-Russian exhibition "Youth of Russia" of young artists in the Central House of Artists (Moscow, Russia);
2017, 2016, 2013 The annual exhibitions of summer student practice in the Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts (Saint-Petersburg, Russia);
2016 The first regional art exhibition "Young Artists of the North-West of Russia" (Syktyvkar, Russia);
2016, 2013 "The Best Drawing" in the exhibition hall of the Russian Academy of Arts (Saint-Petersburg, Russia);
2016 The exhibition dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Chelyabinsk Art College (Chelyabinsk, Russia);
2015 The 8th and 9th exhibitions "Youth of St. Petersburg" of the St. Petersburg Artists Union (Saint-Petersburg, Russia);
2014, 2013 The youth exhibitions of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the All-...