Artist statement & CV

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CV

Yana Sokalski (b. 1987) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Moscow. She explores unconscious manifestations in reality, connecting her own dreams, personal mythology, and the viewer’s experience.
Her primary media include painting, objects, and assemblage. She studied at MSCA, the Details School, and in the painting studios of Liza Tokareva and Anna Tagantseva-Kobzeva.

CV

Yana Sokalski (b. 1987) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Moscow. She explores unconscious manifestations in reality, connecting her own dreams, personal mythology, and the viewer’s experience.
Her primary media include painting, objects, and assemblage. She studied at MSCA, the Details School, and in the painting studios of Liza Tokareva and Anna Tagantseva-Kobzeva.

CV

Yana Sokalski (b. 1987) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Moscow. She explores unconscious manifestations in reality, connecting her own dreams, personal mythology, and the viewer’s experience. Her primary media include painting, objects, and assemblage. She studied at MSCA, the Details School, and in the painting studios of Liza Tokareva and Anna Tagantseva-Kobzeva.

Artist statement

I construct personal mythologies by creating multilayered narratives that blur the boundaries between reality and fantasy. Through paintings and objects, I build emotional spaces that activate the viewer’s personal experiences and invite them to search for connections between symbols, metaphors, and reality.

My dream world is a space where absurdity and chaos expand the limits of consciousness, where questions dissolve into emptiness, and every decision seems to have already been made. Can the viewer influence it? In my projects, the process of self-discovery and the search for inner harmony are expressed through transforming figures and symbols. I guide the viewer through a "garden of illusions" until they realize that every path is a distorted play of perception.

Education

2024 — MSCA, Contemporary Art
2024 — MSCA, Contemporary Painting
2022 — School of Collectors and Experts, Course in Contemporary Art (Yulia Selina)
2021 — Details School, Interior Design
2021 — Details School, Abstract Painting

Solo exhibitions

2026 Artifacts of a Miracle, K35 Art Gallery, Moscow

Selected group exhibitions

2025 — Language as Art, Voznesensky Center, Moscow
2024 — Key Ingredients, Cube Moscow
2024 — The Space Between, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art
2024 — Here and Now, MSCA, Moscow
2024 — Personal and Public, ARTPLAY, Moscow
2023 — I Will Live, Art Maison, Moscow