Zana Miniotaite

“In my art, I usually tend to depict this World how I see it, or show it from a completely different perspective that people are not used to seeing. The stories of my paintings often come to me in my dreams, or when I’m meditating. Sometimes it happens spontaneously in the process of making art; while one painting is created, other five ones are born in my mind. Then art for me is also expression of powerful emotions and diving deep into yourself. When I’m painting, it is important for me to be in a certain emotional spike that will stay on the canvas or paper, and will start its own separate life, slowly embedding the world around it.”
Zana Miniotaite was born in 1987 in Petrozavodsk, into the family of a composer and a violin tutor. From early childhood, Zana studied art: music and visual art. Zana has studied music since the age of two with her mom, and when she turned three, Zana first performed on stage. At the same time, she was sent to Marina and Gennadiy Nikitns’ art studio. From the very beginning, her mentors trained her to search her own vision and unique thinking, both in design and expression planes.
Art studies was not chosen for the girl from musicians’ family by chance – many of the girl’s relatives from her fat...

The art studio of Marina and Gennady Nikitin
Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory

2021 – Exhibition "The Earth. What was after everything?" in State Darwin Museum museum in Moscow.