The exhibition is about Home, and the complexity of that idea for migrants. Leaving home, losing home, searching for home, being confused about it, being a stranger everywhere... More info here
PipLens is a startup aiming to connect creatives from different industries to mentors and experts. I was interviewed by them about my practice, and joined their pool of experts - available for calls twice a week!
Join me for a 2.5 hour workshop in my studio in Hackney Wick to learn about different ways to use sketchbooks, and to start your own. We’ll look at different examples, and experiment with various techniques to unlock your creativity, fight perfectionism and have fun.
Sketchbook could be a great tool to research for a project, to collect ideas, to document your everyday life, or just to unwind and relax. I would like to show you how a sketchbook could be a judgement-free zone, a safe space to play, your everyday companion and source of inspiration.
Sketchbooks and art materials will be provided, and I hope you’ll continue working on yours when you get home! Tea and biscuits will be provided too 🙂
No previous artistic experience is required to participate, although artists might find it useful too.
25th May, 19:00 Bridget Riley Studios, Hackney Wick, London £35 → Book tickets here
The Mixer Series at AOI: Alexandra Ramirez in conversation with Tribambuka
Happy to be speaking at the AOI event hosted by Alexandra Ramirez. Will be talking about the ways to process complex feelings and transforming them into fuel for creative process. Get your tickets here
A book about everything that's wrong with the world, as seen from London 2022 - is out now!
This book is a result of interaction with visitors of my solo show 'Right to Rage' in OXO Tower Wharf, London in November 2022. Right to Rage embraces women’s anger as a cathartic and emancipatory force. Female anger in particular is traditionally embedded into patriarchal social narratives as a destructive and dangerous power that needs to be pacified and sublimated. I tried to make the viewers reconsider women’s rage as a sign of the violation of boundaries, a reaction to injustice and threat and to things that went wrong in the world, and a “dark” power to be unleashed and reckoned with.
You can look closer at the book here, or buy it here.
Panel discussion SheSays x Cluster Contemporary x Tribambuka
On the occasion of the solo exhibition Right to Rage by British-Russian visual artist Tribambuka, Cluster Contemporary and SheSays present a panel discussion that explores how female anger might be embraced as a potent force to creating a more inclusive, gender-equal workplace, from a variety of critical perspectives.
Fierce women aims to create a more open and more nuanced conversation around how ‘anger’ has been historically perceived in relation to social norms and gender stereotypes in particular. The topic is also the central theme of Tribambuka’s exhibition, which invites the audience to enter a safe, interactive space for tapping into female rage as a liberating and unifying force, instead of its stigmatisation and suppression.
As a response to the exhibition, the panel discussion will explore what such progressive and open spaces for women might look like within a broader context, and the effects they might have on traditional gender roles in the cultural industries, the general workplace and beyond. Panellists will approach the subject from different personal, artistic and research-based perspectives, as well as open up the discussion to the audience in an attempt to jointly map out new ways of channelling female anger into progressive social discourse and practice.
Fierce women is co-organised by SheSays, an award-winning organisation running free mentorship and events for women (binary and non-binary) in the creative industry all around the world in order to shape the future of gender leadership. To learn more about their fantastic work, visit their website here.
Our panellists will include:
✳︎ Tribambuka (aka Anastasia Beltyukova) / Artist, Illustrator, Animation Director ✳︎ Shahroo Izadi / Behavioural Change Specialist and Author ✳︎ Mikaela Dragon / Creative Director Amazon, Pitch 100 Superwoman '19, Co-founder Growth&Grace Collective ✳︎ Jo Bromilow / Social Strategy Director
✳︎ Host:Jayshree Viswanathan / Freelance Senior Copywriter at Creative X SheSays LDN President| Google RARE Campaign Future Leader
Nov 4-6 / 2022 OXO Tower Wharf, London Opening Nov 3 / 2022
Cluster Contemporary is pleased to present the solo exhibition Right to Rage with a series of new works by British-Russian visual artist Tribambuka. Right to Rage embraces women’s anger as a cathartic and emancipatory force. Female anger in particular is traditionally embedded into patriarchal social narratives as a destructive and dangerous power that needs to be pacified and sublimated. Tribambuka instead makes us reconsider women’s rage as a sign of the violation of boundaries, a reaction to injustice and threat and to things that went wrong in the world, and a “dark” power to be unleashed and reckoned with.
The narrative and imagery around women’s virtues and identities have historically been determined by the dominant perspective of the male gaze and forced into reductive categorical archetypes. Yet women have always sought to challenge this fraught status-quo and to create new imagery and definitions around their identity - be it through literature, art, labour or protest. Female (in its inclusive, not exclusively cis-gender sense) anger is a crucial, progressive force within this historical movement of resistance; and the main focus of Tribambuka's new series of paintings and works on paper. The artist’s works mix a range of influences from myths, fairy-tales, Jungian archetypes and dreams with feminist history and current socio-political references. Her figurative style is influenced by 20th century movements such as Russian Avant-Garde, Fauvism, Expressionism and Cubism, albeit with what she calls a “feminist pop-folk” twist and the revolutionary flavour of the swinging 60s.
As an artist of Russian descent, whose work revolves heavily around the concept of belonging and shifting identities, the current ongoing war initiated by the country she used to call home has had a drastic effect on Tribambuka’s practice and her approach to this particular body of work. The horrors suffered by women in the Russian-Ukrainian war in particular (but all wars historically) struck the artist as a pinnacle of the deep-rooted patriarchal structures of society. Treating women as objectified symbols of the country that has to be conquered, defeated and humiliated reveals how the degrees of misogyny and male violence against women range from the domestic scale up to national warfare. As a response, the artist was driven to embrace the collective rage felt by her and fellow women, and channel it into her artworks. Her pieces trace the central narrative of women’s struggle to reclaim their voices, stories and power back to various archetypal female characters throughout mythology, such as Medusa, Eurinome, Kali, Judith, the Furies. By retelling their stories from an emancipatory, female perspective, Tribambuka creates a new visual vocabulary around femininity, defined by strength, resistance and rage.
Right to Rage is an experiment of looking at anger more closely and welcoming it into shared discourse as a force that can bring balance and amplify the voices of those unheard. Tribambuka views the exhibition as the start of a conversation, inviting the audience to feel empowered by the ‘monstrous’, furious women of history to share their emotions, thoughts and opinions in response.
Right to Rage: Solo Exhibition by Tribambuka part of Cluster Contemporary 2022 Fair 3-6 November 2022 OXO Tower London Barge House Street, SE1 9PH, London
So honoured to get a Creativepool Bronze award for illustration for the second year in a row! This time - for the editorial illustration for NBC / Procter and Gamble "How easy it is for bacteria to travel inside your home". It was also exhibited in the Museum of Illustration in New York in the beginning of 2021 as a part of Society of Illustrators 63d show. My other project "Heart of the Nation" was awarded Bronze in animation category. Thanks to the jury and to my wonderful clients!
In June I have been interviewed by Zima Magazine - a UK magazine for Russian speaking community. I was talking about my artistic journey, moving to London, creative hub in East London and my studio in Hackney Wick. If you can read Russian - check it out!
