Anna Nezhnaya (born in Moscow, 1987) is a visual and performance artist and lives and works in Berlin since 2016. With her background in graphical arts trained at Moscow State University for Printing Arts and Graphics (B.A.) and at Greifswald University (M.A.), Anna’s artistic research is dedicated to traditional images in contemporary settings.
For her, digital drawing is the perfect connection to light art, serving as a field of experimentation from which her iconic neon sculptures emerge. Anna‘s work is presented in the most popular Berlin places like the former King Size - now Georgia bar, also having a representation at public spaces like two five meter neon installations at the new Pears Jewish Campus Berlin.
The body of her work oscillate between objectivity and abstraction - manually as much as digitally - and explores identity in the post internet age. With her paintings, light objects and drawings she investigates the slippery divide between physical and virtual reality. The artist reflects on topics, exploring images of femininity in the realms of mysticism and metaphor.
Her imaginary feminist image Succubus – a female demon-like entity that is in Jewish mythology believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men. Her realm is the interface between the waking reality and that of dreams. Just like the world of human beings transitioned from the analog playground to an increasingly digitalized version of reality, disconnecting the individual from its needs and itself, so did the representation of the Succubus suffer a transformation from an initial frightening demonic, almost fiend-like creature, to what is nowadays a highly attractive seductress.
Lives and works in Berlin.