Hello, I'm Stas — a late self-emerging artist exploring time, space, and the state of being in-between. My practice explores the tension between presence and absence, control and surrender, permanence and impermanence.

Often working through slow processes or mediated interactions, I aim to create conditions where material and time become active collaborators. In many of my works, I remove myself from the space of creation, allowing the passage of time or natural forces to shape the outcome. This absence is not a withdrawal, but a way to investigate the invisible structures that govern how we perceive change, decay, and continuity.

My background outside of traditional art institutions informs a practice that is intuitive, process-driven, and resistant to fixed definitions. I’m interested in the poetic space between things — between action and stillness, visibility and disappearance, the physical and the ephemeral.

Exhibitions:

2025 — Somatica — Culterim | Spaces, Rossmann, Berlin

2025 — Culterim | Studios Show #4, CANK, Berlin

Projects: -

Publications:

2024 — AGM 8, Abstract graffiti magazine, Issue 08

Education:

2018–2023 — MA, Psychology — East European Institute of Psychoanalysis

2011–2012 — BA, Graphic Design — University of Hertfordshire, London, UK Graduated with honors; awarded best final project in class.

2000–2006 — MA, Economics and Management — Saint Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics Graduated with honors as the best student on the course.

Residency: -