Anastasia Zhikhartseva

Anastasia Zhikhartseva (b. 1986, Chukotka, USSR) is a Sweden- and France-based multidisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, printmaking, and installation. Trained as an architect before studying classical graphic arts at the St. Petersburg Repin Fine Arts Academy, Zhikhartseva left Russia for Sweden in 2022. She explores the tension between personal and political realities through the lens of speculative and magical realism. Her work reflects a metamodern sensibility, balancing earnest sincerity with a sense of irony. By documenting everyday social interactions from a disillusioned humanist perspective, she seeks a visual language for the emotions that shape our social lives yet often remain hidden and unspoken. She has participated in group exhibitions such as ‘Tout doit apparaître’ (Le Tzara, Paris, France, 2025), the Lithographic Workshops of Västra Götaland County (Konstlitografiska Museet, Tidaholm, Sweden, 2024), ‘Becoming Landscape’ (Das Esszimmer, Bonn-Kessenich, Germany, 2023), and the Russian-Japanese exhibition ‘Preodolenie’ (Manege, St. Petersburg; New Manege, Moscow, 2016). Her solo exhibitions include ‘Before and After’ (Grafik i Väst, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2025), ‘Reality Check’ (ADA Formcenter Väst, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2024), and ‘1½:10’ (SAW Utställningsrum & Ateljé, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2022).