Anastasia Novikova

Biography

I am a contemporary artist, was born in Kyiv in 1988 an now live in the Netherlands.

Іn addition to artistic practice, I work with orphans as an art therapist.

Awareness of mine theme came to me along with a traumatic experience. I see this as a driving force for further development. Due to gilding, I show beauty and growth in wounds and cracks. For me, each scar is like an order or a medal for courage and resilience. I make pictures from glass and mirror fragments. The broken and re-glued layer serves as the basis for painting. In my opinion, everything that was broken acquires more value than new precisely due to the traumatic experience.

Anastasia Novikova

In the first days of the war, when I was locked in a city under
siege and separated from my children, my despair reached its
extreme limit. At such moments, it seems that your whole life is
breaking into pieces like glass and there is no solution. But time
passes, the mind becomes clearer and you can see a way out
and feel the strength to act and change your life.