Exhibition Opening: Betwixt & Between. Solo Show by Anastasia Tribambuka

Name: Exhibition Opening: Betwixt & Between. Solo Show by Anastasia Tribambuka
Start: 2025-11-04T19:00:00+01:00
Location: PANDA platforma

Schedule

Tue, 04 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

PANDA platforma | Berlin, BE

This event is part of the PANDAwomen 2025 Festival’s side programme.
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This new series by British-Russian artist Anastasia Tribambuka explores the liminal terrain between departure and arrival, between the known and the unknown. It is a strange, shifting space—inhabited after leaving what once felt like home, though no new home has yet appeared.
A valley between worlds.
An interregnum.
A time between times.
A melted self between forms.
At its centre is a female figure—sometimes visible, sometimes implied—moving through this in-between landscape. Her journey is not linear, but fragmentary: shaped by memory, by myth, by intuition. Along the way, threshold figures emerge— mermaids, winged messengers, half-remembered myths, psychopomps and shadows, creatures of guidance or distraction.
Here, transformation begins not with clarity, but with dissolution. New ground is not found—it is grown, slowly, from fragments. Memories surface, drift, dissolve.
Working mostly with a palette of red, black and pink, Tribambuka layers rough, hand-printed textures with luminous watercolour washes. Ephemera—typewritten fragments, archival traces, cartographies of past lives—float alongside the precision of inked line. The result is both tender and uneasy: a visual language of passage, where the accidental and the deliberate meet.
These are works that refuse conclusion. They hold the viewer gently—betwixt and between—where something unnamed is beginning to take shape.

About the artist: Anastasia Tribambuka is a London based multidisciplinary artist working predominantly in painting, printmaking, and large-scale audio-visual installations. Her practice is mainly concerned with the themes of shifting identity, home and belonging, as well as experience of living in a female body; with a strong participatory element and often involving audience interaction in the creation of the work.
As a British artist with Russian roots, she takes a critical approach to the complexities of her heritage through a contemporary lens of feminist thought and mythological thinking. The striking, figurative visual language in her paintings is an amalgamation of her background in graphic design, the artistic elements found in Russian Avant-garde, French Analytical Cubism and Fauvism, as well influenced by the revolutionary spirit of swinging sixties.
Bio:
The artist was formally trained in the traditions of the Russian Analytical school of painting at the St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design, which opposes the canon of academic education and takes its roots from artists like Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Pavel Filonov and Natalia Goncharova. She inherited the structural approach to composition and shapes, reversed perspective and bold colour combinations. The influence of Fauvism, Expressionism and sixties counterculture add an element of disorder, emphasising the interplay between chaos and structure that is a key theme in her work. Her background in illustration adds a fresh, contemporary edge, as well as defines the narrative approach and symbolism behind her compositions.
These visual attributes become apparent in her She / Her / Hers (2022) painting series, depicting portraits of women in various contorted, geometrical configurations using a limited palette of bold colours. In her painting series Right to Rage (2022), the artist adopts a similarly iconic compositional style and colourful palette in her portraits of female characters from across various mythological narratives as a powerful emancipatory statement.
Through her most recent solo project, the large-scale immersive exhibition ‘Nowhere to Go but Anywhere’ at the Migration Museum in London (2024), the artist further expands on her foundational interest in exploring the concept of ‘home’, pushing her experimentation with a variety of different mediums including video, sound, audience participation and mixed media installations influenced by the likes of William Kentridge and Robert Rauschenberg. The ambitious exhibition is focused mainly on the artist’s sketchbooks that have been an integral part of her practice, presenting them in a variety of different creative ways in order to foreground the concept of a constantly evolving ‘process’ instead of a finite product.
Alongside prestigious commissions by international brands such as CNN, NBC, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and the Migration Museum, Tribambuka’s works have been exhibited and collected internationally.

Selected Shows:
SOLO SHOWS

Nowhere to Go but Anywhere
Migration Museum, London, UK, 2024
Right to Rage
OXO Tower Wharf, London, UK, 2022
I Am Home
Atelier 3I3, Porto, Portugal, 2019

Admission: free