ABOUT
Evgeniya Pankratova (b. 1997, Moscow) is a contemporary artist based in San Donà di Piave, Italy. Her practice explores the space between the everyday and the symbolic, using staged architectural settings where objects, gestures, and miniature figures acquire new meaning. Working with multilayered oil painting, she constructs illusionistic scenes shaped by light, composition, and theatrical framing.
Recurring motifs — fabrics, stars, hands, small objects — act as a visual vocabulary through which familiar elements shift into “everyday myths.” Her works investigate how environments, whether real or imagined, form emotional and symbolic experience. Light becomes a mediator between the visible and the hidden, while gestures operate as subtle carriers of narrative.
For Pankratova, painting is both observation and a meditative process, in which layered images become a space of quiet tension and reflection. She is represented by Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery, Milan.
Studio enquiries:
pankratovaeugenia@gmail.com
pankratovaeugenia@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2016–2020
Florence Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy
Printmaking Department
August–December 2018
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, USA
Painting Department
2012–2016
The Moscow State Academic Art College (MAXY), Moscow, Russia
Graphic Design Department
RESIDENCIES
2023 Kulturvermittlung Steiermark Residency, Graz, Austria
2021 “Youth of Russia” Residency, Union of Artists — New Forms Program, Russia
2016 OPUS MODERNUM Residency, CAVP — La Fondazione Arti Visive di Pietrasanta, Pietrasanta, Italy
2015 OPUS PRACTICUM Residency, CAVP — La Fondazione Arti Visive di Pietrasanta, Pietrasanta, Italy
2014 OPUS PRACTICUM Residency, CAVP — La Fondazione Arti Visive di Pietrasanta, Pietrasanta, Italy
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2025 The Theater of the Ordinary: Between Ritual and Play
Spazio Furbä — in collaboration with Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery, Guardiagrele, Italy
ART FAIRS
2026 ArteFiera Bologna — represented by Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery, Bologna, Italy
2025 ArteFiera Bologna — represented by Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery, Bologna, Italy
2024 ArtVerona Fair — represented by Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery, Verona, Italy
2023 REA Art Fair, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Stanza in una Stanza, Heart Lab, curated by Sijia Chen and Mu Qing, Milan, Italy
2024 Styrian Photo Biennale, Altes Kino Leibnitz, Austria
2024 Punteggiato di Luce Giaceva Lì Scintillante, Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery, Milan, Italy
2023 Printmaking Happening, LINLI Art Space, Venice, Italy
2023 XX Biennale di Penne — Tra l’estetico e il politico, curated by Antonio Zimarino and Chiara di Carlo, Penne, Italy
2023 ENSEMBLE, curated by Curating The Young, Chinastraat, Ghent, Belgium
2023 Arte Laguna Prize 17, Northern Arsenals of Venice, Italy
2021 Experience // Today / Tomorrow, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019 Premio Stibbert, curated by Enrico Colle, Florence Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy
2017 National Engraving Competition, Municipality of Gorlago, Italy
2017 OPUS MODERNUM, curated by Mikhail Rozanov and Kirill Preobrazhensky, Moscow Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Russia
2015 OPUS PRACTICUM, Palazzo Panichi, Pietrasanta, Italy
2015 MAXY 1925–2015: Traditions and Modernity, VDNH, Moscow, Russia
TALKS / PRESENTATIONS
2023 Artist Talk, Atelier 12, Graz, Austria
AWARDS
2023 Combat Prize — Shortlisted Artist, Italy
2022–2023 Arte Laguna Prize 17 — Finalist, Painting, Italy
2019 Stibbert Competition — Finalist, Florence, Italy
2019 National Engraving Award — 3rd Prize, Municipality of Gorlago, Italy
2017 National Engraving Award — Shortlisted Artist, Municipality of Gorlago, Italy
PUBLICATIONS