STATEMENT

Anastasia Fainberg’s practice explores transformation as a natural force.
Through object making, ceramics, installation, and photography, she creates forms that seem to be caught at the end of adaptation: objects shift, grow, deform, and begin to feel almost alive.

Her work is shaped by an interest in the logic of nature — fossils, organic growth, survival, mutation, erosion, and the systems through which the world organizes itself.
Familiar things in her practice often stop behaving as expected: they soften, accumulate matter, develop new surfaces, or form hybrid organisms. What first appears fragile or decorative may reveal itself as active, persistent, and capable of transformation.

Nature in her work is not passive background, but a force that intervenes, reclaims, balances, and reshapes. Her objects often suggest a world where everything is interconnected, and where matter continues to adapt beyond human control

2016–2020 National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Bachelor’s de- gree in communication design

Print Publications

2024 Oggusto magazine, September issue
2024 ‘’Gardens of good and evil’’ New York Times 2024 — Florists review magazine
2023 ‘’Les Echoes weekend’’
2023 ‘’Elle Decoration’’ US
2022 ‘’Frénésie’’, Fisheye magazine
2022 ’Happiness’’, Home Living Korea
2020 ‘’INSIDE’’ PH Museum photo book

Exhibations

2025 ’Adaptations’’, Memeraki Artist residency, Limassol, Cyprus
2025 Earth Partner Exhibition, Papal Gardens of Castel Gandolfo, Vatican, Italy 2025 — ‘’Blossoms’’, Noa Architecture studio, Limassol, Cyprus
2024 ’Living still life’’, (212 Istanbul photography festival, Istanbul, Turkey)
2024 ‘’Supported structures’’ (Astry bakery, Limassol, Cyprus)
2023 ‘’Connections’’ (Spaceplaceone gallery, Nizhniy Tagil, Russia)
2023 ‘’Emotionscapes’’ (Exhibit8 Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus)
2022 Rotterdam photo festival (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2022 ‘’Body x Object’’ (Centro Nerga, Blanca, Spain)
2021 ‘’Vacation’’ exhibition (MMOMA, Moscow, Russia)
2021 ‘’INSIDE’’ exhibition (PH Museum, Bologna, Italy)

2020 Noorderlicht International Photo Festival 2020: Generation Z, (Museumpark Land- goed oranjewoud, Heerenveen)