Ania Khazina

Ania Khazina (b. 1994, Saint-Petersburg, Russia) is a figurative and conceptual painter based in Paris. Working primarily with acrylics, ink, and pastels, her practice centers on large-scale compositions and portraits marked by expressive color, emotional immediacy, and a focus on psychological depth.

Her work is rooted in the tension between presence and absence — subjects who avert their gaze, leave the scene, or remain suspended in transitional states. Bright, sometimes clashing or anxious colors amplify the emotional charge of each piece, while the compositions resist resolution.

Khazina's first major series, Cameo, was presented in her debut solo exhibition at L'Atelier des Artistes de Belleville, Paris, in 2024. Grounded in imaginary and autofictional scenes, the work approached the portrait as a mode of biographical study — attending to transient episodes that unfold on the margins of lived experience.

Her second series, Aftermath, marks a shift in scale and register. Shown at L Galerie, Paris, in March 2026, the work moves from the personal to the collective: figures caught not in individual transition, but in the condition of an ongoing, normalized catastrophe. Bodies are carried by forces beyond themselves; awakening and getting up become fragile, uncertain gestures. The series interrogates Western structures of guilt, repentance, and the belief in renewal — questioning whether collapse can be morally offset by hope.