Expression
by
Anastasia Voltchok
26 November
–
2 December 2025
Even the moon has a sunny side. It's invisible to us, but we anticipate it. You and I will bite into a piece of pineapple. It's sweet in the heat... Every day, you and I forgive each other.
“Expression”
My exhibition is about expression.
We tend to suppress our feelings.
We tend to suppress our feelings of joy, sadness, grief, and the ecstasy of love. We go on with our everyday lives, functioning rather than feeling, performing rather than being honest with ourselves, our ambitions, our dreams, and our desires.
Our facial expressions fade, and we lose our childlike freedom of expression in our movements and our voice.
We forget how to laugh aloud and how to hug each other in public without looking over the shoulders to see if anyone is watching us, judging us. We are always afraid of judgment.
Even anger deserves to be expressed.
We often scream into a pillow or the empty space when we lose hope of being heard.
But there is a moment of profound silence.
If we listen carefully enough, we will hear.
Silence between the words. Silence between musical notes. Silence before something significant is to happen.
In that silence is the spirit. It is our freedom, it is our love.
When you look at the painting, try to listen to what speaks to you within you.
Express your emotion.
Vernissage
28 November 2025 – 17:00 – approx. 20:00
29 November 2025 – 14:00 – approx. 18:00
30 November 2025 – 14:00 – approx. 17:00
More information
Anastasia Voltchok is a Swiss-based visual artist whose work emerges from the same expressive force that drives her acclaimed career as a concert pianist. Born in Moscow into a family of musicians and honoured with the Gold Medal at the World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, she has performed on major stages across Europe and the United States.
Painting became a parallel language for Voltchok—one that can be seen and felt. Working in acrylics, oils and pastels, she creates smooth, vibrant surfaces that channel the energy of a fleeting moment. Her subjects draw on travel, memory and intimate emotional experience, always guided by a desire to connect directly with the viewer.
Voltchok has exhibited her paintings in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, the USA and beyond. In 2017, a poetry book combining her texts and artworks was published in St. Petersburg. She continues to explore the resonance between sound and image—most notably performing and painting live at the Auditorium Rainier III in Monte Carlo.