FEMININE ENERGY:

2025 - June, 25

From June 12 to June 20, 2025, Artseeker Gallery opened its doors to an important conversation. The exhibition Feminine Energy: Resistance & Revival invited viewers to look at the female experience not through clichés, but through subjectivity, symbolism, and emotional strength. Curated by VICTO and Uliana Sal, the show brought together works by nine women artists from different countries, featuring 14 paintings and 2 photographs, where every voice spoke softly yet convincingly.
 

The exhibition presented works by Leah Larisa Bunshaft (Dizlarka), Maria Makarova, Tanya Nefedova, Irina Klimova, Olga Balaeva, Olga Tiho, Diana Timchenko, Anna Voronina, and NASKA (Anastasia Gladkova). Each brought her own story: whether of migration, body exploration, trauma, or reimagining archetypes of femininity. Their works became threads woven into a single fabric, while retaining their unique tones and textures.
 

We live in a time when femininity is being redefined not as a set of outward traits or roles, but as a dynamic field of experiences, struggles, and rebirth. Feminine Energy responds to this moment: it speaks not of the female body as a template of ideals, but as an archive of memory, an instrument of resistance, a site of transformation.
 

The exhibition was structured around two interconnected themes: resistance and revival. Rather than opposing one another, they complement each other, resistance as the safeguarding of the inner world, revival as the step toward a renewed self. The artists employed a wide range of expressive strategies:
 

Figurative painting with symbolism: Leah Larisa Bunshaft (Dizlarka) weaves threads, cages, and handprints to tell stories of imposed boundaries and self-determination.

Eroticism and visual agency: Diana Timchenko, in 50 Shades of Red and Free Woman, breaks taboos, using a rich red palette as a language of self-assertion.

Abstraction as an emotional body: Olga Balaeva maps inner states, layers of acrylic paint become cartographies of feeling.

Quiet, minimalist photography: Irina Klimova’s works act as pauses, spaces for breath and contemplation.

Solidarity and identity mosaics: Tanya Nefedova builds compositions from fragments, interwoven figures, and fractured color fields.
 

Each artist maintains her own visual strategy, yet within the gallery space their works form a dialogue, responding to each other through rhythm, symbolism, and body.
 

Feminine Energy offers not axioms but questions: What does it mean to be a woman today? How do we hear ourselves through the noise of stereotypes? How can inner experience be translated into visual language? The exhibition does not aim to provide universal answers, but creates a platform where the subtle voice of individuality can be heard. In a world dominated by loud declarations, this show reminds us: softness, silence, and self-disclosure are also forms of resistance.
 

The New York setting where artistic discourse has long intersected with activism gave the exhibition additional resonance. A public accustomed to bold visual manifestos encountered works that emerged from the intimate inner landscapes of the artists themselves.
 

Feminine Energy: Resistance & Revival became a showcase of women’s stories, struggles, and hopes. Is not a museum project about women, but a space where women speak in the first person, in the colors, tones, and rhythms they chose for themselves.