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BIO

Yulia Shanaytsa is a contemporary artist of Russian origin who has lived and worked in Berlin since 2009. She graduated from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts and has continued her studies in Berlin.

In her practice, Shanaytsa combines painting and illustration, exploring themes of identity, consumption, and the fluidity of human experience in the contemporary world. Her work is built on the tension between the personal and the private, connection and isolation, permanence and transience. Objects in her works become not just attributes but co-authors, creating a delicate balance between vulnerability and adaptation, intimacy and alienation.

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In today's reality, where attention is scattered and man defines himself through objects, the artist Julia Shanaytsa finds in this fragmentation and change a source of inspiration. The human desire to describe oneself through objects, these tiny particles of consumer society, becomes a key point in her art.

In her work, the artist explores attributions and objects as symbols of contemporary existence. In analogy to Renaissance portraits, where each object has its own meaning, today's objects become attributes that characterise us in this ever-changing reality.

The complexity of the contemporary system, where objects are impermanent and subject to obsolescence, creates a sense of confusion in the individual. However, it is in this shift and change that the artist finds beauty. The ability to capture moments in this fluid flow becomes the source of its creativity.