Pieta of Sorrow
 17’25’’
2025

Creativity takes a human form and discovers the world through the five senses - the beauty, limits, and emotions of being alive.

supported by Het Cultuurfonds and Gemeente Rotterdam

Het Banketje
 2023

An interactive installation that uses traditional Flemish still life setting to guide the audience through Rotterdam’s colonial past.

(upcoming) in the collection of Stadsarchief Rotterdam

Coming of Age
7’52’’
2024

An archival-footage video essay investigating the evolution of the coming-of-age genre in the environment of increasing Nietzschean nihilism.

published by Sydney University Press



Umbrella
2022

An experimental essay film that uncovers the social bias surrounding addiction.





Prometheus2020

A visual interpretation of Scriabin’s Prometheus created in collaboration with a visually impaired musician that bridges the gap between the auditory, the visual, and the sensory.





photography
(diverse projects and medium)
 ongoing

A collection of photography projects created using a range of techniques, including pinhole, analogue, and digital photography, exploring diverse themes and approaches.



Umma
 5’55’’
2024

A poetry film about a complicated relationship between a daughter and her mother.



We Are Made of Stories
IFFR Short Film Teaser2022

A teaser that draws a parallel between us and cinema, reimagining film as a fabric of stories where each thread connects to a larger whole.





Flikken Rotterdam
season 72023

Hein Berg tries to uncover a corrupt insider within the team, finding compromising secrets in everyone’s past. However, he soon discovers that the informant will do anything to remain hidden.


Deconstructed Cinema
75’00’’
2025

A feature-length film composed of the “dead moments” in the IMDb Top 250, challenging the media’s constant demand for our time and attention.


invi•nc•sibility
2020

A photography project documenting the emotional experience of a transgender person living in a conservative enviroment. 


Anastasia Goncharova




LinkedIn I am a multidisciplinary artist and art theorist working at the intersection of film, textile, photography, and installation. With a foundation in both the arts and humanities, my practice combines critical inquiry with artistic expression, examining how our worldview and identity are shaped by social structures and proposing resistance through sensory depth, attentiveness, and reflection.

A central focus of my work is the tension between visibility and invisibility: what is seen, what is distorted, and what is systematically erased. I specifically interrogate ideas perpetuated by media and dominant narratives. For that reason, many of my projects foreground marginalized and silenced perspectives, challenging the prevailing ways of seeing the world.

Ultimately, my work aims to disrupt “common sense” - the beliefs we unconsciously adopt as our own - and provoke independent, critical reflection. By doing so, I invite my audience to reconsider how they truly think, see, listen, and feel.



hello@anastasiagoncharova.art

Education
 Willem de Kooning Academy
BA Audiovisual Design
(Rotterdam Arts and Sciences Lab dual degree)

Erasmus University Rotterdam
BA (Honours) Arts&Culture Studies (Cum Laude)
(Rotterdam Arts and Sciences Lab dual degree)

University of Sydney
Exchange (Film Studies faculty)

British Higher School of Art and Design
Foundation degree in Fine Art

Exhibitions (upcoming) Chronicles of Intimacy
group exhibition (collaborative project)
Pie Factory Margate Gallery
Margate , UK
2025

GRAW 25
group exhibition (collaborative project)
Sodafabriek
Schiedam, Netherlands
2025

Fragments of...
group exhibition
Kunstinstituut Melly
Rotterdam, Netherlands
2025

(de)fine art
group exhibition
WORM
Rotterdam, Netherlands
2022

Britanka Show
group exhibition
ARTPLAY
Moscow, Russia
2019

Publications
 “Coming of Age.” Cinégraphia: Journal of Literature, Film, and Other Media 1, no. 1
Sydney University Press
2025
(link)


AwardsHolland Scholarship
Netherlands
2020

MICA Talent Scholarship
USA
2020