Vasilisa Palianina is a Berlin-based artist whose practice moves between drawing, installation, performance, textiles, and experimental media. Through mythology she explores gender, sexuality, human and animal nature, memory, and political experience. Her work engages with the study of minorities — including their marginalization, and strategies of resistance — examining how minority identities negotiate visibility, voice, and belonging within dominant cultural narratives. Her pieces transform vulnerability, exile, and resistance into poetic visual narratives. Palianina creates spaces where political realities intersect with dreams, rituals, and the subconscious, revealing the fragile yet persistent connections between body, identity, and cultural memory.
Vasilisa Palianina (b. 1986, Minsk) is a Berlin-based artist working with sculpture, ceramics, installation and experimental material practices. Her work explores myth as a living structure through which questions of identity, corporeality, gender and belonging are articulated. Drawing on archaic symbolism, human–animal and human–plant metamorphoses, Palianina constructs hybrid figures and environments where the body becomes a site of transformation rather than representation.
Palianina has participated in exhibitions and residencies across Europe and beyond, including Akademie der Künste Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Galerie im Körnerpark, Vienna, Warsaw, Paris and Tokyo.