Photo: Katrin Binner

KRISTINA SUPERNOVA (b.1989, Lithuania) is an Lithuanian visual artist living and working in Porto/Berlin. Her work ranges mainly from painting to illustration, murals, sculpture and wearable art. Lately extended with video, installations, performance art, poetry, art books and animation. Recently Supernova is abandoning the concrete narrative motif and starts creating expressive, large or small format oil paintings and ink, watercolor and oil pastel drawing series in which echoes of the mythological fable worlds can be found, as well as a preoccupation with human existence where she turns the inside out. Colors and lines are her own codes and formulas for all kinds of feelings, that humans, animals and even plants are capable to experience.

Her works often resemble a dream - everything seems quite ordinary at first, but in retrospect turns out to be an absurd mixture of individual aspects of one’s own environment, coupled with the endless expanses of the subconscious. As a great observer, Supernova manages to capture phenomena, contrasts, inner conflicts, current major movements and apparent trivialities.