Diana Baiss

Diana was born on April 26th 1990 in a small town called Arkalyk in the north of Kazakhstan. She is the only child in a family of a metallurgist at a lead manufacturing plant and a pediatrician. Her craving for drawing began to manifest itself from an early age, alas, this desire was not satisfied by attending ordinary art classes. At the age of 7, after her parents’ divorce, she moved to Almaty to live with her grandfather, a former sailor of the Baltic Fleet, who was mainly involved in the upbringing of the future artist. Studying at the local Secondary School № 97 was easy, Diana attended school regularly, but with a great aversion, the only thing she liked were Russian Literature, History and Geography. At the age of 16, she got her first job as a linesman (line judge) at tennis tournaments organized by the Kazakhstan Tennis Federation, where she continued to work for 5 years while studying. During this time, still without realizing her vocation in art, she entered Turan University for a Bachelor of Science degree in Hospitality Business Management, a choice made on impulse and completely unconsciously. Despite her good academic performance, Diana was very selective in the subjects she was forced to study, preferring to read on...

Turan University - Master of Science in Hospitality and Tourism Entrepreneurship, 2014.
Turan University - Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Business Management, 2012.

Artist's statement: "As a self-taught artist, the main motive of my work has always been and still is a paradoxical desire to curb chaos or destroy any order trying to catch some balance. The birth of new things occurs only thanks to chaos, but any "innovations" cannot materialize without the participation of order and discipline, as if, on one side of the scale there is a wild beast, and on the other a wise old man, one cannot refuse one or the other, but one can try to reconcile them in one creative flow. We live in an era when the possibilities for human creativity are endless, so I don't get attached to a certain style and don't drive myself into artificial frames. If you put all my artworks in one room, you will get the feeling that they were created by different people, I call this "the effect of creative splitting." My art broadcast the state of anxiety and hope in which the modern world lives. A life full of frames, restrictions and standards, where a person is often constrained, covered with a thick shell of his own fears, doubts and laziness, a categ...