Veronika Bezdenejnykh

°1990 in Almaty, Kazakhstan - lives and works in Brussels (BE)

Veronika Bezdenejnykh’s practice moves between painting and spatial installation — works that feel like environments you step into rather than objects you look at, and that she describes as a ‘transformation box’: a space where meaning is not fixed, but open to whoever stands in front of it.

Her canvases are built up from small, carefully placed brushstrokes that produce soft colour gradations, like light shifting across a tiled wall. The references she draws on are wide and unhierarchical — Persian carpets, Byzantine mosaics, wallpaper patterns, the shimmer of pearls in Van Eyck’s paintings — sourced from grainy book reproductions and online archives, and transformed through the distortions that copying and repainting inevitably introduce. What interests her is what happens to an image when it travels through time: how meaning fades, shifts, and opens up into something new.

Veronika Bezdenejnykh has exhibited at Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp; Pizza Gallery, Ghent; and CIAP, Hasselt, and participated in the large-scale public art project Finis Terrae. Her work is currently on view in front of S.M.A.K. Ghent as part of our series Museumplein.