Dasha Minkina
Painter of Interpersonal Encounters and Emotions
Dasha Minkina, Lost Paradise (2024)
Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
Dasha Minkina, The Reading (2023)
Oil on canvas, 120 x 80 cm
Oil on canvas, 120 x 80 cm
Dasha Minkina, Before It Ended (2023)
Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
Dasha Minkina
Novy Urengoi (Russia) 1981
Dasha Minkina was born in Siberia but grew up in Ukraine. As an art school student, she encountered figurative art at the age of five. Since then, portraiture has remained a constant focus. During her art studies in Dortmund, she focused on painting (Prof. Jan Kolata) and photography (Felix Dobbert), two media predestined for the portrait genre. In her current work, she has definitively chosen painting as her primary means of expression.
My personal journey is part of my creative process. In the early 1990s, I emigrated to Germany as a teenager. From that point on, return, reflection, and the search for self have formed both my personal and artistic focus. Through painting, I explore the ideas of identity and emotion, their boundaries and interactions, as well as the interaction between image and viewer. My portraits turn inward. Across the bridge of empathy, they engage the viewer in an individual, wordless dialogue, thus creating spaces for reflection and emotion. My paintings therefore deliberately remain ‘unfinished’; they seek to allow the viewer to complete the story.
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