Anzhelika Lebedeva is a young Russian-Italian artist born in Tver in 1995 and currently living between Russia and Cellino Attanasio, in Abruzzo, Italy. After graduating in Environmental Design from MAXY in Moscow (2016), she earned a BFA in Printmaking from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence (2020) and collaborated with the Royal Academy of Antwerp. Her poetics, rooted in existentialism, explore the spaces between the natural and the artificial, the physical and the metaphysical, investigating how inhabit ed spaces retain invisible traces of human presence. She favors soft pastels on raw canvas —a choice she began during her thesis in Florence—to create suspended atmospheres where the boundaries between subject and space dissolve. Her work includes the series Room, Four walls, Light study, and Stanza, featuring blurred presences and spatial openings that invite introspection. She has held solo and group exhibitions in Italy (e.g., OMBRE in Penne, ABITARE in Guardiagrele) and abroad (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Edinburgh). Her works are part of public and private collections in Italy, Belgium, China, the UK, and the USA (including YAG/Garage, Fondazione La Rocca, OPEK). With a visual language balancing symbolism and materiality, she expresses a continuous search for h armony between presence and space, memory and metamorphosis.
