Exhibition of Evgenia Vasilyeva "Teacher"

The Russian Academy of Arts presents a solo exhibition of works by the honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts Evgenia Nikolaevna Vasilyeva "Teacher", organized with the support of the Research Museum at the Russian Academy of Arts (St. Petersburg), the Faculty of Arts of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and "EVA gallery". The exhibition will demonstrate several dozen original works, including painting, sculpture, graphics, collage and video art.

The exhibition project of Evgenia Vasilyeva, known under the creative pseudonym "Eva", under the curatorship of the President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli, addresses the theme of purity and innocence of the perception of reality. The fragrance of mystery conveys the exclusive world of illusions of the invisible world. Worldly knowledge, communication with people, awakening passions - all this covers the invisible world with the visible.

The Teacher project is an experience of contact with eternity, a sense of a higher reality that stands above the flow of time, beyond the material world. Everything in the exhibition radiates grace and joy - in its exaggerated neon perception. Will humanity be able to preserve this unknown world of blessed representation? What are the possibilities of rejecting the coarseness of consciousness? The Teacher as a guide to the world of knowledge gives his student the necessary strength to act, to act in spite of stereotypes and cliches, to act in spite of circumstances and judgments, to act in the name of the triumph of art. The author’s concept demonstrates the process of cognition, the victory of light over darkness, the purification of people from the vices of the material world, thanks to and in spite of…

Evgeniya Nikolaevna Vasilyeva (EVA) is a Doctor of Art History, Candidate of Law, Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, and Cavalier of the Order of Honor of the Russian Federation. The author studied: at the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University, specializing in jurisprudence (2001); at the Faculty of Arts of Lomonosov Moscow State University (2018); at the British Higher School of Art and Design, specializing in contemporary art (Moscow, 2018); at the Open College of Arts of Contemporary Art (London, 2021), at the University of Essex, specializing in international law (Essex, 2023); at the Orthodox St. Tikhon’s University for the Humanities, under the professional retraining program in theology (Moscow, 2024).

The artist’s works are in the collections of: Pierre Cardin (France), the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan (Russia), the National Museum of the Republic of Bashkortostan, the Bashkir State Art Museum named after M. V. Nesterov, the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the city of Ghibellina (Italy), the Diocesan Museum of the city of Caltagirone (Italy), the Ibrahim Kodra Foundation (Switzerland), as well as in private collections in different countries of the world.

Evgenia Vasilyeva’s works have been exhibited in public and private institutions: London Art Biennale (London, UK), Saatchi Gallery (London, UK), Palazzo Bembo in the parallel program of the Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy), Florence Art Biennale (Florence, Italy), in the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg, Russia), in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the State Museum of the East, in the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, the Skolkovo Innovation Center (Moscow, Russia), the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan, Russia), the National Museum of the Republic of Bashkortostan (Ufa, Russia), the Bashkir State Art Museum named after M.V. Nesterov (Ufa, Russia), Diocean Museum of Caltagirone (Caltagirone, Italy), CICA Museum (Seoul, South Korea), Palazzo Doebbing Museum (Sutri, Italy).

In addition to artistic practice, Evgenia Vasilyeva is engaged in scientific research and is the author of more than 50 publications devoted to the interaction of rational and irrational knowledge in contemporary art.