Anna Kalugina Solo Exhibition
CICA Museum, Flexspace-Section B
February 15 – 23, 2025
2025.2.15 – 23
Come into My Garden
The exhibition invites viewers into a serene and beautiful place—a garden where tranquility and warmth embrace every visitor. Through mosaic works, golden reflections shimmer, capturing the essence of sunrays that gently penetrate the heart of the garden, illuminating the plants with a quiet radiance. My exhibition reveals intimate and cherished spaces, inviting us to explore their secret corners. Sculptures evoke memories of one of my most beloved places—the Giardini Bardini. The Bardini Gardens were magnificent. Standing on the terrace of the viewing platform, directly opposite the Church of Santa Croce, where Michelangelo rests, I always discovered not only a breathtaking view of the city but also the mystery of peace and serenity. Each of us has a place of peace and tranquility. And I want people to reflect on their own.
ANNA KALUGINA is a mosaic and soft pastel creator and restoration specialist based in Moscow. Anna obtained a Global Talent Visa in the UK in 2024. She graduated from the “Free workshops” of MMOMA (Moscow) in 2024, as well as in 2011 with honors Anna had finished the Faculty of Monumental Painting of the RSPU named after Stroganov. Anna Kalugina’s list of awards is most impressive: she has won best prizes around the world. Red Rock Pastel Society of Nevada, US has awarded Anna as the best artist multiple times (2022, 2021 and 2020). In 2021, Anna won a Panz Merit Award at the “Purely Pastel” Online National Exhibition of New Zealand. Works of Anna Kalugina are well known both in Russia and worldwide, her pastels and mosaics are invaluable decorations of numerous museums and churches. Anna says, that the main focus of her works is the contact with the material, the tactile sensations, the uneven, vibrating, breathing surface, which fully convey Anna’s thought.
