- Professional experience ↓
- Higher education ↓
- Courses & workshops ↓
- Foreign languages ↓
- Selected awards, exhibitions & screenings ↓
Art Director @ TTS
tt-s.com- Concept development for various mediums (explainer videos, tutorials, course illustrations, information visualisation etc)
- Motion design & animation: storyboarding, rigging, animation
- Collaboration with the project management, leraning architects, visual team & external freelancers
- Working directly with the clients in order to establish the look and feel of the products
- Figma Art direction Illustration Concept Sketchnote CJM
UI/UX designer / artist researcher @ Geisted
geisted.com- Working together with the dev. and design team, creating user stories and customer journeys for the product
- Analysing existing and creating high-fidelity mockups in order to ensure smooth and convenient use of the Geisted platform
- Asset management for artist profiles & collection pages for the Geisted platform
- Figma HTML & CSS UX research UI Mockups Material Design CJM
- Artist research for the platform & upcoming shows
- Social media Research
Senior media / UI designer @ Lemon One (now BOOM!), Berlin
www.boom.co- As a part of both tech and product team – conducting user research in order to gather feedback on user’s experience and ease of use of LemonOne products
- Developing and expanding LemonOne styleguide to ensure consistent brand communication
- Creating low- and high-fidelity mockups for LemonOne products such as Website, Landing pages, Booking platform, Photographer App, ensuring all interactions are intuitive and easy for customers
- Figma Git HTML & CSS Webflow UX research Conducting user interviews UI Mockups Material Design
- Writing guidelines, quizzes and tests for photographers & retouchers
- Assessing photographer & retoucher applications, hiring and briefing freelancers
- Creating visual assets for social media, designing presentations & other visual materials
- High end photo retouching, photography
- Adobe Illustrator Photoshop Indesign Lightroom Figma Social media
- Creating image videos for high end real estate clients: storyboarding, photographer briefing, cutting, colour grading, motion design
- Creating video presentations for LemonOne products, video instructions etc
- Creating visual assets for social media, designing presentations & other visual materials
- Adobe After Effects Premiere Pro Dragonframe Motion designAnimation Video editing
Art teacher / lecturer @ Bratec Lis School of Art
www.bl-school.com- Giving lectures and workshops on history of photography, cyanotype & illustration, documentary animation
- Practical classes on camera-less techniques in illustration (cyanotype process)
- Theoretical & practical classes on use of perspective in visual arts
- Fine ArtVisual ArtsArt educationCyanotypeDocumentary animation Teaching
Producer / designer @ Factual Animation Film Festival (FAFF)
www.factualanimation.com- Judging submissions, putting together the festival program with the other producers
- Organising the festival venue
- Creating visual assets (creating Berlin logo, trailers, banners)
- Managing an online promo campaign on social media
- Organising Q&A sessions with the filmmakers
- HTML & CSS Figma WordPress Adobe Photoshop Illustrator Premiere Pro After Effects Dragonframe Social Media
- Judging submissions, putting together the festival program with the other producers
- Producing visual assets (trailers, flyers, program design)
Motion design intern @ Bühnengold, Berlin
www.berlin-projekt.org/profiles/schultourtheater-buehnengold- Storyboarding, animation, shooting and postproduction
- Adobe Premiere After Effects
- Theatre play posters
- Video titles
- Adobe Illustrator Photoshop Indesign Lightroom
Designer / gallery assistant @ MOMENTUM Berlin
www.momentumworldwide.org- Designing exhibition catalogues, flyers, posters, other promo materials
- Designing and maintaining the gallery’s website (WordPress, HTML, CSS, UI) & social media
- WordPress Photoshop Indesign Illustrator
- Photo & video documentation of performances, events, artworks (camerawork, postproduction)
- Event trailers (animation, motion design), catalogue photography Adobe Premiere After Effects Audition Lightroom Photoshop Dragonframe
Designer @ Internet Panda, Moscow
www.crazypandagames.com/en/- Advertisement & promo materials for new game features and special events (St.Patrick day, Valentine’s day, Christmas etc.) to promote them on social media
- Landing pages for new games and existing game updates
- HTML & CSS Adobe Photoshop Illustrator Flash Action Script 3
Web-designer @ Faberweb design studio, Moscow
- Working with client briefs, developing CI, concept & website mockups for various businesses
- Designing business cards, forms, souvenir production & other corporate visual materials
- Building & maintaining corporate websites and landing pages for special offers and promotions
- HTML & CSS JavaScript Action Script 3 Flash Adobe Photoshop Illustrator
- Studio product photography & postproduction
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Freelance artist / designer
- Photo documentation of art events, performances and art installations
- Promo & art catalogue photography
- Various motion design & animation projects
- Graphic & web design projects
- UX consultant
- Artistic research, art & educational event production
- Private & public art classes, lectures on art / design / art history
M.F.A. Media Art and Design
Bauhaus University Weimarwww.uni-weimar.de
- Documentary animation by Aline Helmcke
- Collodion workshop “Silver and Moonshine” by Stephan Jacobs
- Photography by Nina Röder
- Graphics & Animation (animation theory, Blender)
- Art interventions in MMORPG by Angela Washko
- Fashion Clips videography
- Documentary photography & videography
- Mobile Web- and Hybrid Apps with HTML5
M.A. Communication Design: Graphic Design
Kingston University Londondegree with distinction
www.kingston.ac.uk
- Visual communication
- Cover Design Award – Penguin Books
- Introduction to Illustration
Specialist Graphic- & Webdesign & E-commerce
National Research University Higher School of Economics(former Moscow Institute of Electronics & Mathematics)
honours degree
www.miem.hse.ru/en
CONTENTED
Jumping into sketching with Nina Stadnik
Metaphor in Magazine illustration with Sveta Mullari
Documentary animation lecture by Maria Taramaeva
Bratec Lic School
CONTENTED
Art trip to Kemer, Turkey (graphics, painting)
Moscow Institute of Art and Industry
Pre-print postproduction & scanning
Comics drawing with Nina Stadnik
Visual storytelling by Marianna Rio
Bratec Lic School
Kulturschoepfer Berlin
Cimdata Bildungsakademie
Illustration Book club
Berlin drawing
ESDIP Berlin
University of Arts London, St.Martin’s school
Bookbinding workshop
Letterpressing workshop
London Centre for Book Arts
Adobe InDesign practical evening course
Traditional illustration
Kingston University London
Reportage photography
Academy of Photography
Academy of Photography
ESDIP Berlin
Sketch the Moment Berlin
Candid Arts Trust
Sketcherei
Drink & Draw Berlin
Berlin Drawing Room
“The View” – participant of an art exhibition at Narimasu Gallery in Tokyo, Japan
“Unexpectd encounters” series of 5 illustrations, painted in Ukiyo-o style and printed on silk
Participant of an art exhibition at Narimasu Gallery in Tokyo, Japan
5 illustrations in Ukiyo-e style
Animafest Zagreb
“The astronaut’s journal”, animafest.hr
PArticipant of Fringe Arts Bath, “The circus of curiosities”
“BALAGAN!!!”, fringeartsbath.co.uk/circus
Participant of an art exhibition at Narimasu Gallery in Tokyo, Japan
Landscape painting in Ukiyo-e style, printed on silk
ART from ELSEWHERE: Danube Dialogues (Selected Artists from the MOMENTUM Collection)
“BALAGAN!!!”, momentumworldwide.org/exhibitions/art-from-elsewhere-danube-dialogues/
Guest Lecturer at Sevil International Women’s Documentary Film Festival
“What is documentary animation” lecture and workshop, collaboration with FAFF, sevilfest.org
Fringe Arts Bath, UK
“Ghost memories” video art, fringeartsbath.co.uk/rewind
“Haptic codes”, Patrick Heide, UK
(part of Varvara Shavrova’s project)
“1933 The story of ‘Chelyuskin’ and Shavrov” project, patrickheide.com/exhibitions/haptic-codes
“oh my data” exhibition, Berlin
“BALAGAN!!!”, discursus.info/exhibitions/oh-my-data/
“Taking Flight: Birds & Bicycles Berlin” Exhibition by MOMENTUM Berlin
“BALAGAN!!!”, momentumworldwide.org/exhibitions/birds-bicycles/
Sunny Art Prize 2021 shortlisted artists exhibition, UK
Photo series “The lines”, sunnyartcentre.co.uk/artprize/previous-entries/shortlisted-artists-2021/
“The Migrant”, part of “Smart Music: an audiovisual adventure” by Aleksanra Toneli premiere screening at Z-inema Berlin
“The Migrant” animation, zbarberlin.com/kino-z-inema/
Kalakari film fest
“The astronaut’s journal”, instagram.com/kalakari_filmfest/
Austin Lift-Off Film Festival
“The Migrant” animation, liftoff.network
Lockdown Schmockdown Show by MOMENTUM, Berlin
“The astronaut’s journal”, momentumworldwide.org/public-art/insideout-chb-lockdown-schmockdown/
Shortlisted for Sunny Art Prize 2021, UK
Photo series “The lines”, sunnyartcentre.co.uk/artprize/previous-entries/shortlisted-artists-2021/
Lifedrawing exhibition at Candid Arts Trust gallery, UK
Life drawing sketches, candidarts.wordpress.com
FLIXX FEST, USA
“The astronaut’s journal”, flixxfest.org
FLICKFAIR Film Festival
“The astronaut’s journal”, flickfair.com
KinoDUEL International Film Festival, Russia
“The astronaut’s journal”, kinoduel.com
Hidalgo Film Fest, USA
“The astronaut’s journal”, facebook.com/HIDALGOFilmFest
Screening & pannel discussion participant at Mobile Animation Film Festival
“The astronaut’s journal”, sillydragon.com/MobileAnimationFilmFest/
Ridgewood International Film Festival, USA
“The astronaut’s journal”, ridgewoodguildfilmfest.com
Prize-winner of the Sound And Vision International Film & Technology Festival, USA
“The astronaut’s journal”, soundandvisionfilmfest.homesteadcloud.com
Buskopolis Festival of Cinematic Oddities, USA
“BALAGAN!!!”, buskopolisfilms.com
Sacramento Underground Film & Arts Festival, USA
“The astronaut’s journal”, sufaf.wordpress.com/
Moscow Shorts, Russia
“My first day in Weimar”, moscowshorts.com
St Albans Film Festival, USA
“The astronaut’s journal”, stalbansfilmfestival.com
Rome Independent Prisma Awards, Italy
“The astronaut’s journal”, romeprismafilmawards.com
UK Monthly Film Festival, UK
“The astronaut’s journal”, filmfreeway.com/UKMonthlyFilmFestival
Participating in “Take place” performance
Performance, facebook.com/events/2265846533715231/
Winner of the Emerging Voices Division Animated Short Film category of the 2019 Mosaic Film Festival
“The astronaut’s journal”, mosaicfilmfestival.weebly.com/
Co-organiser of the FAFF Berlin (Factual animation film festival)
organiser and one of the judges, factualanimation.comf
Miami Independent Film Festival, USA
“The astronaut’s journal”, miamindiefest.com
Dumbo Film Festival, USA
“The astronaut’s journal”, dumbofilmfestival.com
Winner of the audience’s award at the Watford Short Film Festival, UK
“The astronaut’s journal”, watfordshortfilmfestival2018.blogspot.com
Semi-finalist of the jellyFEST – Season 4, USA
“The astronaut’s journal”, thejellyfest.com
Les Femmes Underground Film Festival, USA
“The astronaut’s journal”, lesfemmesinternational.org
Best jury choice award of the month at Red Wood Film Festival
“The astronaut’s journal”, facebook.com/redwoodfilmfest/
Cinefern (September 2019 edition)
“The astronaut’s journal”, cinefern.com
Sketch the Moment exhibiton III
exhibiting life drawing sketches, facebook.com/events/554385668372032/
LONG STORY SHORTS | International Film Festival, Romania
“The astronaut’s journal”, longstoryshorts.net
The Backup festival, Germany
“The astronaut’s journal”, facebook.com/backupfestival
Feel The Reel International Film Festival, UK
“The astronaut’s journal”, feelthereeliff.com/february-2018
Capital City Film Festival, USA
“The astronaut’s journal”, capitalcityfilmfest.com/event/animated-shorts-2018
LifeArt Festival, Greece
“The astronaut’s journal”, lifeartfestival.com
Los Angeles Short Film Festival, USA
“The astronaut’s journal”, smarturl.it/lsff
Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival, Brazil
“The astronaut’s journal”, fantaspoa.com/2018/programacao
Days of German and Russian short films VKRATZE!, Russia
“The astronaut’s journal”, vkratze-fest.ru/en/
Independent Days International Filmfestival, Germany
“The astronaut’s journal”, independentdays-filmfest.com
iChill Manila film fest, Philippines
“The astronaut’s journal”, ichilltheatercafe.com
Finalist of the European Cinematography AWARDS (ECA), Poland
“The astronaut’s journal”, europe.cawards.org/
Semi-finalist of the Hollywood Screenings Film Festival, USA
“The astronaut’s journal”, hollywoodscreenings.org
Semi-finalist of the Eurasia International Monthly Film Festival, Russia
“The astronaut’s journal”, filmfreeway.com/EurasiaInternationalMonthlyFilmFestival
Semi-finalist of the Euregion Film Festival, participant in Q&A, Netherlands
“The astronaut’s journal”, cinesud.nl/
The finalist of the Near Nazareth Festival
“The astronaut’s journal”, nnfestival.tk
Nomination for the Short Film Festival Beveren, Belgium
“The astronaut’s journal”, filmfestivalbeveren.be
BlackBox Shortfilm Festival, Switzerland
“BALAGAN!!!”, blackboxonline.org
The Actual Animation Film Fuss 2017, UK
“My first day in Weimar”, factualanimation.com
Screening at the Cinema Sotterraneo at the Bauhaus University Summaery
“The astronaut’s journal”, summaery.uni-weimar.de
Screening at the Sommernachtstape at Bauhaus University Summaery
“The astronaut’s journal”, summaery.uni-weimar.de
The prize winner of “Barcelona Planet Film Festival” (Best Animation Short Film)
“The astronaut’s journal”, barcelonaplanetfilmfestival.com
Semi-finalist of “AniMazSpot International Animation Feedback Festival”
“The astronaut’s journal”, filmfreeway.com/MyFilmFestival-874130
Screening at “The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival”, USA
“The astronaut’s journal”, wvmsff.com
Screening at “Gold Reel Student Film Festival”
“The astronaut’s journal”, facebook.com/filmclubuncc
Screening at “SHORT to the Point” film festival, Romania
“The astronaut’s journal”, facebook.com/shorttothepointfilmfest
“Beyond BALAGAN!!! HERO MOTHER: Contemporary Art by Post-Communist Women Rethinking Heroism” at MOMENTUM Berlin
Photo series “The lines”, momentumworldwide.org/exhibitions/hero-mother/
Participation in the Berlin Month of Performance Art within WORKS ON PAPER III at MOMENTUM gallery
“Re:mémorer” performance, vimeo.com/127882446/
Participation in the »Entschuldigen Sie, wo finde ich denn hier das Bauhaus?« exhibition in OMA in Weimar
Photo series “Current“, uni-weimar.de/en/…bauhaus-essentia/
Winner of the Bauhaus Essentials 2015 Prize
Photo series “Current“, uni-weimar.de/de/…/summaery2015/kooperationspartner-foerderer/
Participation in the Bauhaus University “Summaery” exhibition
2 projects: photography, graphic design, uni-weimar.de/en/university/profile/events/events-2015/summaery2015/
Bauhaus University “Summaery” exhibition
5 projects: photography, performance, media art, uni-weimar.de/summaery/2014/
Fringe Arts Bath art festival
Red Line Artworks section, “Interruption” collage, redlineartworks.org
“Photo drying” group photography exhibition in Gorkij Park, Moscow
Photo series “Every day”, kudago.com/msk/event/sushka-v-parke-gorkogo/
Kingston University Master Degree Show
”Nostalgia” project, kingston.ac.uk/events/item/550/10-sep-2013-ma-design-school-show-2013/
Participation in the exhibition of art and photography of the Urals summer practice in the “Sokol Gallery”
groundmoscow.com
The prize-winner of a University conference
“School shooting” presentation, www.miem.hse.ru/en
The prize-winner of a University conference
“Product placement in cartoons” presentation, www.miem.hse.ru/en
The prize-winner of a University Scientific conference
Flash-based design project on information visualization, www.miem.hse.ru/en
The first place in a University Scientific conference in nomination “web-graphics”
VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) project
“The Park of Design” exhibition in the Moscow Central House of Artist
Graphics “Summer series”, cha.ru
“The Park of Design” exhibition in the Moscow Central House of Artist
Street photography, cha.ru
“The Park of Design” exhibition in the Moscow Central House of Artist
Painting, “The plum still life”, cha.ru