Anna Nezhnaya, born in Moscow in 1987, graduated from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts and Graphic Arts and the University of Greifswald. She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Anna is a visual and performance artist with a background in graphic arts, focusing on the intersection of traditional imagery and contemporary media. Her work blends digital drawing, painting, and neon light installations, creating a dialogue between the physical and the virtual, the mystical and the modern. Nezhnaya's neon sculptures, emerging from her digital sketches, serve as luminous portals into myth, identity, and post-internet culture. Her installations can be found in both intimate and public spaces across Berlin, including the former King Size (now Georgia Bar), as well as large-scale public commissions such as two five-meter neon works at the new Pears Jewish Campus Berlin.
Exploring themes of femininity, mythology, and perception, Nezhnaya's work revisits archetypal figures - Medusa, the Succubus, Eve - examining how their narratives evolve in a digitized world. The Succubus, a recurring figure in her practice, embodies the transformation of myth in contemporary culture - from a feared demon of folklore to an object of desire - mirroring society's shifting perceptions of power, sexuality, and control. Through her luminous forms and layered compositions, Nezhnaya invites viewers to question the boundaries between reality and illusion, past and present, dream and waking life.
Anna Nezhnaya's works have been exhibited in several public spaces in Berlin, Germany, and featured in major group exhibitions at numerous German museums. Her work has been shown in major cities like Berlin, Moscow, Barcelona, Naples, etc.