Ksenia Dermenzhi (b. 1995, Chisinau). Lives and works in London.

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Ksenia Dermenzhi explores the interplay of memory, identity, and perception through the language of color, form, and space. In her work, landscapes and floral motifs serve as vessels of personal and collective memory, where the visual and the emotional intertwine, creating layered spaces for reflection on the past, present, and future.

 

Working primarily in oil and oil pastels on canvas, Dermenzhi negotiates the tension between structure and abstraction, allowing color, form, and texture to engage in a nuanced dialogue that conveys time, emotion, and lived experience. Her artistic language is shaped by post-impressionism, fauvism, and abstraction, while retaining a deeply personal resonance.

 

As the artist herself notes, she is deeply drawn to the conceptual approach of Anselm Kiefer—particularly his understanding of the landscape as a medium for exploring memory, history, and human experience, rather than as a visual style. As Dermenzhi explains regarding her own work: “There are no human figures in my paintings, but they are always about the human experience.” Through her compositions, she invites viewers to engage with space, color, and form as conduits for both emotional and intellectual reflection.

 

Her work encourages a reconsideration of the familiar and reveals new layers of perception, where emotion, memory, and visual impression coexist as equal participants. In this intersection, the ordinary gains poetic depth, and reality and imagination converge, creating an experience that is simultaneously intimate, universal, and timeless.

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Education:

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Painting, College of Fine Arts Plamadeala, Chisinau (2011-2015)

BA Painting, Academy of Music Theatre and Fine Arts, Chisinau (2015-2019) 

MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London (2025-2026)

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Solo exhibitions:

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In Bloom, BEERS London, London (2022)

Invisible Paths, BEERS London, London (2024)

 

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Selected Group exhibitions:

 

The Creative youth, Constantin Brancusi Exposition Center, Chisinau, (2018)

ArtCor Creative Hub, Chisinau (2019​)

The New, Artual Gallery, Beirut (2021)

​BFAMI, Phillips, London (2022)

Family & Friends, BEERS London, London (2023)

Landscape Reimagined, Saatchi Gallery, London (2024)

Arcadia and Elsewhere, James Cohan Gallery, New York (2024)

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Art Fairs : ​

 

ENTER Art Fair, Solo booth BEERS London, Copenhagen (2023)

KIAF Seoul, Suomei Gallery, Seoul (2023)

West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai (2023)

UVNT 24 Art Fair, Cerquone Gallery, Madrid (2024)