I didn’t begin my path in art right away. First, I studied archaeology, then philosophy, before eventually finding my true direction. While working on a PhD at LMU Munich—exploring the profound link between art and truth—I was already exhibiting abstract paintings in group shows.

When I finally dedicated myself to being an artist, my work was guided by the Platonic belief that art must represent an Idea of something. Living in Moscow from 1991 to 1998, I painted large abstract oils that expressed my personal feelings in the shifting realities of Russia in those crucial very unstable years.

Later, during my life in Vienna (1999–2015), my practice broadened, probably under the influence of Viennas very particular art scene ,  into conceptual paintings, installations, objects, and even philosophical interventions in the city’s daily life. My work became a mirror for the social and intellectual questions that moved me most deeply. 

Since 2016, I have turned toward a different focus: the holistic role of art, its metaphysical therapeutic dimension. I believe this healing quality – on a philosophical level – can stand as the very heart of meaningful art.

 The WINDOWS  in my paintings are placed with care, like stones in a Zen garden—anchoring the eye within the field of paint that surrounds them. The painted surface becomes like gravel combed into rhythms, framing emptiness as presence, silence as form. While writing on Kazimir Malevich, who declared his Black Square to be the icon of modern times, I came to a quiet realization: the true content of art may simply be its power to awaken and expand perception.

In this other tradition—far from Plato’s shadows—art carries no story to tell, not even the tale of refusing to tell one. Instead, it opens a space for the mind to wander, to play, to delight in its most essential task: perceiving the world with wonder. 

In 2016 I moved to Paris, where I followed this creative path, and in 2018 to the French overseas Island La Réunion. After five years of living under the gentle tropics of La Réunion, I am now again based in Paris. Life here is tougher again and I feel ready to take this approach further, with even greater depth and intensity.