Anastasia
Kuznetsova-Ruf

ANASTASIA KUZNETSOVA-RUF

Born in 1983 in Moscow. Live and work in Moscow,Russia. Education: Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov,the Russian Academy of Arts; Institute of Contemporary Art; Anastasia Kuznetsova-Ruf represents the new generation of artists and works in the conceptual realism genre. Anastasia Kuznetsova-Ruf is on the list of the Best Contemporary Artists of Russia (ARTEEX). Included in the People's  Art-rating  "I LIKE-2019" popular artists of the current generation of Russian (version of the project 49ART).

 In 2013, Anastasia took the 2nd prize at the Brewer J.C. Jacobsen's Portrait award  “Portrait Now! - 2013” and became the first artist from Russia to do so. 

Anastasia works in the monochrome painting technique using tempera and charcoal pencil. Her classical art education and impeccable technique does not make her works too “academic” - the underlying idea, the characters and metaphoric expression are central to her works. Anastasia finds symbolic meaning among the mundane and stimulates the public’s intellect with true high art.

 “The most interesting to me is to find symbols of the eternal in our everyday life. I like using minimal artistic means (I almost exclusively work with charcoal) to create new forms and spaces that maximize the perception of reality. As a result, the superficially simple monochrome technique creates a complex work of art with multiple layers of both the drawing and the meaning. This aligns very well with the creative goals I set for myself: it is very important for me that viewers find multiple meanings in my works, meanings to which they can relate personally, even if the meanings they find are different from the ones I envisioned initially - to me, that is the wonder of art.”