Ksenia Dermenzhi

Ksenia Dermenzhi (b. 1995, Moldova) currently lives and works in London. Ksenia studied at the Academy of Music, Theatre, and Fine Arts in Chișinău, completing her studies in painting in 2019. Prior to this Ksenia studied at the College of Fine Arts in Chișinău completing her studies in Fine Art & Painting in 2015.

There is a real sense of joy and buoyancy to the works of Moldovan artist Ksenia Dermenzhi. Despite the unbridled energy emanating from these paintings, the London-based artist displays a mastery over her technique that belies her youth. Seeming to borrow from the free-form approach of the Blau Reiter period, her paintings similarly utilize a broad language of abstraction, including traditions known by Surrealist and Cubist artists. Or perhaps a 20th Century formalism is at work: allusions to artists like Cy Twombly, de Koonig, or Lee Krasner, where frenetic energy suggests a sense of form, or psychological states.