Exibition "Fäden der Vergangenheit" from Anna Mesniankina

With a new selection of works, artist Anna Mesniankina presents her creations in South Tyrol for the first time.

To mark the exhibition opening, Anna Mesniankina invites visitors to enjoy an authentic Ukrainian borscht, which she will personally prepare in the kitchen of Gasthaus Sonneck.

Reservation (by 3 August 2026): bergfilm@icloud.com
We look forward to welcoming you.

"Threads of the Past" brings together works in which different stages of the artist's life unfold like carefully laid traces. The paintings open up vibrant fields of colour, shifting in rhythm and gesture to create an intricate weave of inner landscapes.

Anna Mesniankina, born in 1989 in Berdyansk, Ukraine, and now living in Germany, explores in her abstract paintings the threshold where colour becomes an emotional and spiritual space. Her works move between lightness and density, between luminous passages and darker layers filled with memory and resonance.

With the support of the Franz Meiller Foundation and in collaboration with Tor218 Artlab Gallery in Berlin, Mesniankina was able to resume her artistic practice. In 2025, she presented a solo exhibition there as part of the "Kultur gegen das Vergessen" ("Culture Against Forgetting") initiative, opened by Josef Bierbichler, who gave a reading from his novel Mittelreich. The event was featured on Kulturzeit, the cultural programme of ZDF/3sat.

During an artist residency at BASIS Vinschgau Venosta in South Tyrol in the summer of 2025, she created the first part of a triptych: a painterly reflection on the Babyn Yar massacre carried out by the German Wehrmacht. The work will be presented in January 2026 at Sophienkirche in Berlin as part of a concert performance dedicated to Babyn Yar, featuring singer Mariana Sadovska and musician, DJ, and author Yuriy Gurzhy, whose work uniquely combines tradition and contemporary pop culture.

A further residency at BASIS Vinschgau Venosta in the summer of 2026 will continue Mesniankina's artistic development and culminate in an exhibition at the residency venue.