Learning What Actually Feels Like Me Group Exhibition at AVIVSON Gallery, London

The group exhibition 'Learning What Actually Feels Like Me' at AVIVSON Gallery in London, curated by Darya Kalembet, runs from April 13 to 26, 2026. The show features works by nine artists: Natalia Kungurova, Maria Verner, Mariia Denysenko, Inessa Garder, Natasha Antipova-Kaploukhaya, Marie Lourier, Anastasia Klimova, and Veronika Khachaturian. The exhibition explores themes of identity, unlearning, and authenticity through painting, collage, photography, and mixed media. Key works include Mariia Denysenko's 'Mix Feelings' (2024), which references abstract expressionism; Inessa Garder's 'New Arbat Avenue' (2016), a collage responding to architectural constraints from her Moscow years; Maria Verner's 'Me and You' (2026), a visual pun on the Russian word 'мы' (we) mirrored to 'wi' in Jamaican patois; Marie Lourier's 'Stories of Decay' (2025), a photographic series on decomposition as metaphor for cultural consumption of women; Natalia Kungurova's 'Internal Traffic' (2025), using contrast and layering to evoke urban experience; Natasha Antipova-Kaploukhaya's 'Presence Reminder' (2024), engaging family memory as resistance; Veronika Khachaturian's 'Controlled Accidents' (2024–2025), six paintings that destabilize the everyday with irony; and Anastasia Klimova's 'Trace of Being' (2026), addressing presence and trace in painting. The exhibition presents identity as an ongoing construction, emphasizing the process of discarding what does not fit.