YULA

I work with abstract painting and intermedia projects. I was born in Potsdam (Germany) in 1975; since 2023 I have been living and working in Moscow. I am a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia.

I began exhibiting professionally in the late 2010s, after a career in design and psychology. The key directions of my work are the interpenetration of abstraction and reality, color as a carrier of emotion, and personal systems of signs.

In 2021 I had my first solo exhibition, "Interpretations," at the Creative Union of Artists art space in Samara, and the duo exhibition "Hide and Seek" with photographer Anastasia Ivanova at Strelka Hall. In 2022 my project "Eternal Return" received the K. Golovkin Prize — third place in the Contemporary Art nomination. In 2024 I was a participant and finalist of the 8th interregional academic research project "Red Gates" / "Against the Current". My works are held in private collections in Russia and abroad.

My painting is a language of signs. Within abstract fields of color I hide a personal system of symbols — number sequences, outlines of constellations, pseudo-script — turning each work into an encrypted letter.

What comes first for me is not the artist's dictate but a dialogue with the viewer: what matters is not what I put into a painting, but the impulse it awakens in the one who looks. My aim is to shift the angle of vision, to make the familiar be rethought, and to spark a personal creative response addressed to the questions of being and self-identification.