Asya FEOKTISTOVA

Member of the Union of Artists of Russia;

Chair of the Board of Trustees of the FUTURO

Art Gallery;

Winner of the Top 50 Award by “NN.Sobaka.ru”

for “Best Project of 2023” with the project

Connections at the Pakgauzy, Nizhny

Novgorod, Russia;

In 2025, included by the Ministry of Culture

and Tourism of the Moscow Region in the list

of Cultural Codes of the Odintsovo District,

Moscow Region, Russia.

WORKS HELD IN COLLECTIONS:

All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Moscow,

Russia;

Khakassia National Museum, Abakan, Russia;

Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum, Nizhny

Novgorod, Russia;

Zvenigorod Museum of History, Architecture

and Art, Zvenigorod, Russia;

Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy

of Sciences Collection, Nizhny Novgorod,

Russia;

“AZ” Foundation for Cultural Initiatives

Collection, Moscow, Russia;

OPW Office of Public Works, Dublin, Ireland;

Collection of Felix Verkhovodov;

Collection of Dmitry Volodin;

Collection of Marina Gisich;

Collection of Marina Rudneva;

Collection of Konstantin Elutin;

Collection of Sergey Gridchin;

As well as private collections in Moscow,

Nizhny Novgorod, London, Dublin,

Krasnoyarsk, Perm, New York, Vienna, Paris,

St. Petersburg, Monaco, and Milan.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2025 “Height of Summer”, Art Zip Gallery,

Moscow, Russia;

2025 “While There Is Light”, FUTURO Gallery,

Nizhny Novgorod, Russia;

2024 “SPROUTS”, curator Gleb Ershov,

Ekaterina Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia;

2024 “People and Heroes”, Baulin Estate,

Moscow, Russia;

2024 “Enter My Garden”, Evgeny Shutko

Gallery, Moscow, Russia;

2023 “10 Rooms”, Collector’s House of Elena

Zakharova, Moscow, Russia;

2023 “Connections: Reconstruction”,

Gridchinhall Gallery, Moscow, Russia;

2023 “24 Hours”, Fineart Gallery, Winzavod,

Moscow, Russia;

2022 “Connections”, curator Irina Gorlova,

Pakgauzy, NGHM, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia;

2022 “Fragile Transformations That Decisively

Change the Meaning of Events”, Gridchinhall

Gallery, Moscow, Russia;

2022 “Letters to Loved Ones”, “VMESTE”

Contemporary Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia;

2021 “Artist’s Testimony”, Kamensky Estate,

Nizhny Novgorod, Russia;

2021 “1 Day”, Fineart Gallery, Winzavod,

Moscow, Russia;

2020 “Spring Aggravation”, Fineart Gallery,

Winzavod, Moscow, Russia;

2019 “Sentimento de Mallorca”, Can Boni

Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain;

2019 “Geometry of a Night Park”, All-Russian

Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art,

Moscow, Russia;

2019 “Water Level”, Federal Museum of

Khakassia, Abakan, Russia;

2019 “Details of the Cosmos”, Museum of

Decorative and Applied Arts, Moscow, Russia;

2017 “50 Attempts to Speak Honestly”, New

Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia;

2015 Vue Modern Art Fair, Sokol Fine Art

Gallery, Dublin, Ireland;

2013 “Red Square to Fitzwilliam Square”, The

Origin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland;

2012 “Russian Spring”, Medici Gallery, London,

UK;

2012 “Indulgence and Sensuality”, Paris,

France;

2009 Chase, Royal College of Art, London, UK;

2009 “AWAKENING”, Featuring Rodin

sculptures and Asya Feoktistova paintings, Hay

Hill Gallery, Sokol Fine Art, London, UK.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2025 “Open World. Contemporary Art of

Nizhny Novgorod”, Fabergé Museum, St.

Petersburg, Russia;

2025 Art World project “Ancient Story”, Nizhny

Novgorod, Russia;

2025 “Eidos”, Gogol Museum, New Wing, Gogol

House, Moscow, Russia;

2024 Art World project “Bazaar”, Nizhny

Novgorod, Russia;

2024 “Carpets”, Evgeny Shutko Gallery,

Moscow, Russia;

2023 “At First Sight”, Anna Kalugina’s Studio,

Moscow, Russia;

2022 Art Ankara, Ankara, Turkey;

2022 “Hopes of the Green Tangerine”,

Gridchinhall Gallery, Moscow, Russia;

2021 “Fashion in Art”, Kuznetsky Most 12 by

Lalique, Moscow, Russia;

1995 “Grenzgänger schiffkorn aldemar hrsg

symposium”, Schwarzenberg, Austria.

ART FAIRS:

2025 KONTUR, with ARTZIP Gallery, Nizhny

Novgorod, Russia;

2024 COSMOSCOW, with ARTZIP Gallery,

Moscow, Russia;

2023 KONTUR, with Gridchinhall Gallery,

Nizhny Novgorod, Russia;

2023 AGA, with Gridchinhall Gallery, Moscow,

Russia;

2023 COSMOSCOW, with Gridchinhall Gallery,

Moscow, Russia;

2022 COSMOSCOW, with Gridchinhall Gallery,

Moscow, Russia;

2022 Art-Moscow, with Gridchinhall Gallery,

Moscow, Russia.

COLLABORATIONS:

2024 “Philosophical Dinner” with Artem

Evstafiev, Park of Culture Restaurant, Nizhny

Novgorod, Russia;

About Reliques exhibition

This exhibition is about that lifebuoy given to every person in childhood—simple discoveries that, in their scale, are comparable to victories, the birth of children, and death.

Relics of a pioneer. The anchors of life. Encrypted laws. Treasures disguised as the ordinary.

I’m not a fetishist or a pagan. Apparently, I have some Chinese ancestry—only they could condense vast concepts into a single character. Or perhaps I’m a painter: in the sweep of a brushstroke, there is life from birth to death.

At the heart of this project lie relics—memory-forming objects that encompass the scale of one human life. Their meaning is subjective and, for now, known only to me.

@RATTLE (child’s toy) – the first slide in my memory.

Beaded, perfectly shaped like the sun, amber and ultramarine with white accents.

Damaged by me. As a child, I was obsessed with discovering what was inside.

@SAP FUNNEL (rusted, used for collecting resin)

Found in the taiga near Raznezhye. These funnels were nailed to pine trees, which were cut with “herringbone” incisions so the resin would drip and congeal into large amber-like flows.

This forest amber seemed inexhaustible—funnels would overflow, and the tree would keep giving its golden sap.

@WOODEN CROSS (made by nature)

A branch broken by the wind, forming an unmistakable cross you can’t just step over. Such crosses lie across forest paths and enter your field of vision when your thoughts grow serious. Then the cross appears like an answer or a reminder—and it becomes a dialogue.

These three objects are enough to divide my memory into three stages and three ages.

Taking them with me on a long journey, I carry my whole story. These relics embody my philosophy of the origin of meaning and my connection to the world around me. They fill any narrative with depth.

Touching these tangible, meaningful objects is like making a vow: this is honest! I am here and now!

I, Asya Feoktistova, am a painter.

I am fascinated by all expressions of life—both material and spiritual.

From the movement of neurons to the global existence of matter, the emergence of thought, dreams, the unfurling of tree buds and their roots, all of history, and the warmth of those close to me.

A subject or idea can exist as a color expression, just like it can in mathematical or musical form.

I simply translate what is happening into the language of painting—always dissatisfied with the quality of the translation.

In the series:

“Water Level”,

“Enter My Garden”,

“Dreams of China”,

“The Birth of Matter”,

what matters most to me is the subjectivity of the moment, personal connection, and exploration.

God speaks to everyone. Understanding depends on the level of "noise."

The hardest work happens in the mind.

The act of painting is swift, preserving the first strike on the canvas.

If I manage to seal the motion of thought—or of the wind—then finishing the work becomes a mere technical task.

The canvases are traps I set in the Studio.