Exhibition by Svetlana Petrasch

5 November – 4 December 2025
Vernissage | 5 November 2025 | 8 p.m.
Full Moon Gallery
Admission is free!

Faces fascinated Svetlana Petrasch even as a child. She would spend hours looking at portraits in magazines and drawing them on paper. Over time, she developed a passion for capturing not only facial features, but also emotions. ‘The eyes are the mirror of the soul,’ she says – so what are the windows? Perhaps the soul of the house.

So a few years ago, she began painting windows as well. During her evening walks through familiar or new alleys, she looks inside, imagines the people who live there, and transforms her impressions into pictures. For her, windows are like reflections of people – each one tells its own story, its own little life.

The artist was born in Penza, Russia, studied classical painting and art education (1994–1999) and worked for many years as a freelance painter in Russia – mainly in the field of portrait and mural painting. A special project took her to the Moscow area, where she spent several years working on the mural design of a monastery church in the style of classical icons.

Since 2019, Svetlana Petrasch has been living in Dresden, where she works as a commissioned painter and art teacher. Her works – from portraits and landscapes to large-scale murals – are characterised by a positive, colourful view of the world.

From 5 November to 4 December 2025, the FULL MOON GALLERY, the art space of the Jugend- & Kulturprojekt e. V. at Hechtstraße 17, will be showing a selection from Svetlana Petrasch’s series of works FENSTER & PORTRÄTS (WINDOWS & PORTRAITS).

Vernissage: 5 November 2025, 8 p.m.

The artist will be present, and drinks will be served as usual from the house bar. Admission is free!