From Siberia with a big love
Worked & lived
Siberia
Italy
Italy
Spain
Switzerland
Switzerland
Now based
Yaroslavl, Russia
Helen Anvor was born on the Polar circle, which is symptomatic of her geographically rich biography. Her relationship to space is very specific and welcoming at the same time. This is the reason why she formulates one of her main themes as the constant search for the lost home.
Even though it was due to the coronavirus crisis that she had to stay in Yaroslavl for longer than expected, she has used this as an opportunity to engage with the community and create new meaningful spaces in this small Russian town. Some of her community-oriented urban art projects include: "Trefoleva 12" and a collaboration with a local textile factory.
Anvor’s education and work experience are very diverse, and she uses all aspects of her unique experience in her art. For instance, her first bachelor’s degree is in psychiatry. To this day, it shapes the way she thinks and talks about her art, as she constructs a psychological portrait of her viewers, detects their needs and tries to serve them. More specifically, many of her works are created specifically for people with PTSD. Anvor received her main artistic education from the legendary MArchI in Moscow. She also studied and worked as a candy maker, which led to the incorporation of gingerbread houses into her artistic practice.
Anvor’s works are currently on view in one of the most prestigious spaces in Moscow — CUBE Moscow and Zaryadye Underground Museum, just a step away from the Kremlin. Her other works are part of the permanent exposition at Unil in Switzerland and are held in private collections in Switzerland, Russia, United Kingdom, USA, Korea, and Germany.
Even though it was due to the coronavirus crisis that she had to stay in Yaroslavl for longer than expected, she has used this as an opportunity to engage with the community and create new meaningful spaces in this small Russian town. Some of her community-oriented urban art projects include: "Trefoleva 12" and a collaboration with a local textile factory.
Anvor’s education and work experience are very diverse, and she uses all aspects of her unique experience in her art. For instance, her first bachelor’s degree is in psychiatry. To this day, it shapes the way she thinks and talks about her art, as she constructs a psychological portrait of her viewers, detects their needs and tries to serve them. More specifically, many of her works are created specifically for people with PTSD. Anvor received her main artistic education from the legendary MArchI in Moscow. She also studied and worked as a candy maker, which led to the incorporation of gingerbread houses into her artistic practice.
Anvor’s works are currently on view in one of the most prestigious spaces in Moscow — CUBE Moscow and Zaryadye Underground Museum, just a step away from the Kremlin. Her other works are part of the permanent exposition at Unil in Switzerland and are held in private collections in Switzerland, Russia, United Kingdom, USA, Korea, and Germany.
My name — Helen Anvor — is harmonious like one war. It started many years ago, in the borderless vastness of the snow-white tundra. The small emerald soul with white eyelashes and mittens, embroidered with shaman signs, was standing on the polar circle, declaring a war to her Ego, which was mercilessly dragging her through the pain on life experience.
artist’s statement
These things pour down on the viewer in the form of the lines that change their thickness and scurry around the canvas — perfectly expressing the artist’s nature in the arrogance of the storylines, sweetness and sensuality of the color.
They are obedient to the author, aided by chains of accidental and sultry paint splashes — flirtatious gazes, that stare curiously from the canvases. With their help I let my sensuality play with the viewer’s sensibility. This hurricane of eccentricity wraps the viewer in the soft blanket of disorientation and inspires the inner dialogue with the part of the soul that has been waiting to be heardz.
They are obedient to the author, aided by chains of accidental and sultry paint splashes — flirtatious gazes, that stare curiously from the canvases. With their help I let my sensuality play with the viewer’s sensibility. This hurricane of eccentricity wraps the viewer in the soft blanket of disorientation and inspires the inner dialogue with the part of the soul that has been waiting to be heardz.
My paintings are a meeting place for the dangerous mixture of the child and the adult, the impatience and the youthful rebellion
Worked & lived
Siberia
Italy
Italy
Spain
Switzerland
Switzerland
Now based
Yaroslavl, Russia
Helen Anvor was born on the Polar circle, which is symptomatic of her geographically rich biography. Her relationship to space is very specific and welcoming at the same time. This is the reason why she formulates one of her main themes as the constant search for the lost home.
Even though it was due to the coronavirus crisis that she had to stay in Yaroslavl for longer than expected, she has used this as an opportunity to engage with the community and create new meaningful spaces in this small Russian town. Some of her community-oriented urban art projects include: "Trefoleva 12" and a collaboration with a local textile factory.
Anvor’s education and work experience are very diverse, and she uses all aspects of her unique experience in her art. For instance, her first bachelor’s degree is in psychiatry. To this day, it shapes the way she thinks and talks about her art, as she constructs a psychological portrait of her viewers, detects their needs and tries to serve them. More specifically, many of her works are created specifically for people with PTSD. Anvor received her main artistic education from the legendary MArchI in Moscow. She also studied and worked as a candy maker, which led to the incorporation of gingerbread houses into her artistic practice.
Anvor’s works are currently on view in one of the most prestigious spaces in Moscow — CUBE Moscow and Zaryadye Underground Museum, just a step away from the Kremlin. Her other works are part of the permanent exposition at Unil in Switzerland and are held in private collections in Switzerland, Russia, United Kingdom, USA, Korea, and Germany.
Even though it was due to the coronavirus crisis that she had to stay in Yaroslavl for longer than expected, she has used this as an opportunity to engage with the community and create new meaningful spaces in this small Russian town. Some of her community-oriented urban art projects include: "Trefoleva 12" and a collaboration with a local textile factory.
Anvor’s education and work experience are very diverse, and she uses all aspects of her unique experience in her art. For instance, her first bachelor’s degree is in psychiatry. To this day, it shapes the way she thinks and talks about her art, as she constructs a psychological portrait of her viewers, detects their needs and tries to serve them. More specifically, many of her works are created specifically for people with PTSD. Anvor received her main artistic education from the legendary MArchI in Moscow. She also studied and worked as a candy maker, which led to the incorporation of gingerbread houses into her artistic practice.
Anvor’s works are currently on view in one of the most prestigious spaces in Moscow — CUBE Moscow and Zaryadye Underground Museum, just a step away from the Kremlin. Her other works are part of the permanent exposition at Unil in Switzerland and are held in private collections in Switzerland, Russia, United Kingdom, USA, Korea, and Germany.
artist’s statement
My name — Helen Anvor — is harmonious like one war. It started many years ago, in the borderless vastness of the snow-white tundra. The small emerald soul with white eyelashes and mittens, embroidered with shaman signs, was standing on the polar circle, declaring a war to her Ego, which was mercilessly dragging her through the pain on life experience.
My paintings are a meeting place for the dangerous mixture of the child and the adult, the impatience and the youthful rebellion
These things pour down on the viewer in the form of the lines that change their thickness and scurry around the canvas — perfectly expressing the artist’s nature in the arrogance of the storylines, sweetness and sensuality of the color.
They are obedient to the author, aided by chains of accidental and sultry paint splashes — flirtatious gazes, that stare curiously from the canvases. With their help I let my sensuality play with the viewer’s sensibility. This hurricane of eccentricity wraps the viewer in the soft blanket of disorientation and inspires the inner dialogue with the part of the soul that has been waiting to be heard.
They are obedient to the author, aided by chains of accidental and sultry paint splashes — flirtatious gazes, that stare curiously from the canvases. With their help I let my sensuality play with the viewer’s sensibility. This hurricane of eccentricity wraps the viewer in the soft blanket of disorientation and inspires the inner dialogue with the part of the soul that has been waiting to be heard.