KRISTINA SUPERNOVA
CURRENT COLLECTIONS
PERSONAS
2022-ON GOING
My oil paintings come from a different universe. They’re not the quiet black-and-white wanderers of my line work—they’re full-bodied personas, drenched in color, standing somewhere between realities. They arrive with their own moods, symbols, and oddities, sometimes unsettling at first glance, but never unkind. They’re simply honest about who they are.
These characters grow out of my imagination and the people I watch in everyday life. I mix their gestures, fears, strengths, and hidden tenderness into new beings that don’t quite belong to this world or the next. They carry a surreal calm, a presence that feels both intimate and distant, like meeting someone familiar in a dream.
For me, painting them is a way of listening. Each persona tells a story through color, texture, and silence. They reveal something about the psyche—how light falls, how shadows think, how emotions shape themselves into faces and forms.
These paintings are not portraits in a traditional sense. They’re invitations to step into a space where inner life becomes visible, where a personality is allowed to be strange, vulnerable, and beautifully itself.
THINGS
Objects have their own personalities. I just help them come out of hiding. A table can decide to walk on all fours. A plate can stare back at you with a quiet grin. A coffee machine can carry a story on its skin. Even a pair of giant arms can unfold into an Endless Hug. I follow whatever shape wants to speak, and I let my lines turn it into someone—or something—with a pulse.
I like working with things that already live among us: ceramic plates, quirky sculptures, pieces of furniture, even fashion. When I draw on them, they shift a little. They turn playful, slightly mischievous, sometimes philosophical without even trying. They become small companions, each with its own attitude.
My art book grew out of the same impulse: to let objects, drawings, and characters exist together in one place, in a world where nothing is static and everything has a story.
For me, these objects aren’t just things. They’re invitations—tiny portals into another universe that follows you home.
PAST SHOWCASES
THE ARCHETYPES
SOLO EXHIBITION
2025, BERLIN
GALLERY WEEKEND
The exhibition explored how archetypal figures live within us and influence our emotional landscape.
Paintings, drawings, and short written fragments remained these inner characters as contemporary beings - part myth, part everyday human. Each work traced the tension between clarity and shadow, revealing the subtle forces behind our choices and behaviors. The visual language stayed minimal and precise, allowing the psychological symbolism to take centre stage. Together, the pieces invited viewers to recognise familiar patterns and see aspects of themselves reflected in the figures.
VRB GALLERY
SOLO SHOW
2024, BERLIN
GALLERY WEEKEND
In a world where possessions often symbolize status and success, existentialist philosophy challenges us to confront the inherent absurdity of human existence.
To emphasize these thoughts, the book Steppenwolf from Hermann Hesse appears in the exhibition of Kristina Supernova. "Steppenwolf" is renowned for its lyrical prose and philosophical depth, offer readers a profound meditation on the nature of self-discovery and the quest for authenticity. The inner conflict of the main character mirrors the existentialist challenge to find meaning and purpose in a seemingly chaotic and meaningless universe.
MURALS
Walls have their own memory. I simply give it a language. Wherever I work—on a house façade, a wine bar wall, a backdrop, or a drifting panel—my lines wander, connect, and whisper their stories. Black and white is my way of keeping things honest: no distraction, no escape. Just characters, symbols, and small secrets flowing into one another.
I love turning a surface into a world. Each mural is a map of thoughts and coincidences, a quiet conversation between a place and the people who pass through it. And when the stories begin to unfold, the wall starts to speak back—sometimes with humor, sometimes with a touch of mystery, always with a pulse of life.
For me, murals are not just artworks. They’re living hosts for narratives that stretch, breathe, and grow over time.
