Vasilisa Ikryannikova is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work moves between memory, identity, and estrangement. Born in Moscow and raised in the Netherlands, her artistic journey began at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where she graduated from the Audiovisual department with her short film Song of the Sanctuary. The film premiered at Eye Film Museum in 2024 and was selected for the Nederlands Film Festival that same year. In 2025 it debuted internationally at the Sarajevo Fashion Film Festival, where it was nominated for The Award Best Emerging Talent.

Her work always starts with experimentation, breaking narrative structures, subverting language, folding images into themselves, deconstructing and reconstructing. She is equally invested in researching the making and the showing of the work, often exploring how one piece can be reimagined within different spaces and contexts. Her installations, such as quadraphonic 4 (2021) for the Platform at Club Atelier Amsterdam and audiosculptural Body (2022) with Lisa Kostenko in The Grey Space in the Middle in The Hague, explore themes of sensory experience and space, inviting audiences into the work and blurring the lines between maker and viewer. With Coupé (2023), she explored different ways film can be reinterpreted to cater to the space, experienced as a lenticular print at Bimhuis 2025, a projection at Vrij Paleis 2025, or on an old TV screen, each context revealing different aspects of the same source material. Her lenticular print Coupé – [Moving Still] was sold at KunstRAI in Amsterdam in 2026.

Her work is further characterised by a seamless blend of analog and digital techniques, as seen in Recovered Footage (2022), Vessel (2022), and her collaborative installation Familiar Foreign with Teng Teng Ho, exhibited at a rose is a rose is a rose gallery and at Looiersgracht 60 for the Nike Give Fresh Air exhibition in 2023.

In October 2026, Vasilisa will attend her first international residency in Berlin, exe.archive.





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