Vasilisa Ikryannikova is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work oscillates between memory, identity, and the human experience. Born in Moscow and growing up in the Netherlands, Vasilisa's artistic journey began at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where she graduated from the Audiovisual departement with her short film ‘Song of the Sanctuary’. This film premiered at the Eye Film Museum in 2024 and was also selceted for the Nederlands Film Festival that same year.  In 2025 it debuted internationally at the Sarajevo Fashion Film Festival where it was also nominated for the award of Best Emerging Talent.

Her work always starts with experimentation. Breaking narrative structures, subversing language, folding images into themselves, deconstructing and reconstructing. Vasilisa's art seeks to provoke introspection, emotional resonance and self refelction. 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 audioscultpural ‘Body’ installation (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, blurring the lines beteween maker and viewer. With her film ‘Coupé’ (2023), she explored different ways in which film can be reinterpreted and reformed to cater to the space. Exepriencing the work through a lenticualr print on show at the Bimhuis 2025, a projection or an old tv screen exhibition at Vrij Paleis 2025, reveal and empahsisesdifferent aspects of the work, even though they stem from the same source material. 

Vasilisa's work is characterized by a seamless blend of analog and digital techniques, as seen in projects like ‘Recovered Footage’ (2022),  ‘Vessel’ (2022) and her collaborative installation ‘FAMILIAR FOREIGN’, made together with Teng Teng Ho, exhibited at ROZENSTRAAT a rose is a rose is a rose gallery and at Looiersgracht 60 for the Nike Give Fresh Air Exhibition in 2023. 

Through her diverse body of work, Vasilisa Ikryannikova continues to push  boundaries of conventional storytelling, creating thought-provoking art that resonates deeply. 



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Photo by Giovanni Salice, Creative Direction Rosa Álvarez Solano.