Paintings
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Where Are We Moving?
Opposing brushstrokes echo the beams and collision points of the Large Hadron Collider, asking where particles and humanity are heading.
Oil, acrylic, paper, pin on canvas · 2022
Is There Something Beyond Quarks?
Inspired by quark colour charge, this painting asks whether the search for smaller structures might extend endlessly inward.
Oil, acrylic, paper, pin on canvas · 2022
Do God Particles Exist?
A painting inspired by the Higgs boson and its popular nickname, the God Particle, exploring the boundary between matter and metaphysical questions.
Oil, acrylic, paper, pin on canvas · 2022
Movement is Life, Stillness is Death
A wave-like beam composed of individual touches of oil paint becomes a visual metaphor for the photon and wave-particle duality.
Oil, acrylic, paper, pin on canvas · 2022
What Will This Shape Into?
A painting of a claytronic atom and desert-like grains considers programmable matter, changing forms and the consequences of new technology.
Oil, acrylic, paper, pin on canvas · 2022
One? Whole?
Quantum entanglement becomes an artistic metaphor for connection across distance and the possibility of soulmates.
Oil, acrylic, pins on canvas · 2022
Love Through the Ages. Scene 4
Torii gates become the focus of a painting about Polina Zhadko’s personal affinity with Japan, memory and a feeling of returning home.
Acrylic, oil on canvas · 2021
Heavenly Mountain
A painting inspired by a rainy hike on Mount Mitake in Japan, where vivid colour and solitude made the landscape feel enchanted.
Oil on canvas · 2020
Pink Mist at the Foot of Mount Fuji
Inspired by Japan’s cherry blossom season, this painting explores the meeting of landscape and memory. Held in a private collection.
Oil on canvas · 2020
UFO Over the Sea
A painting about the attraction of the unknown, presented in the permanent exhibition of the Central House of Aviation and Cosmonautics in Moscow.
Oil, acrylic on canvas · 2020
Atoll
A 2020 oil and acrylic painting by Polina Zhadko, held in the collection of Russian Gallery — XXI Century magazine.
Oil, acrylic on canvas · 2020
Universe
Universe is a 2020 oil and acrylic painting on canvas by Polina Zhadko, measuring 53 × 46 cm.
Oil, acrylic on canvas · 2020
River of Life
A 2019 oil painting on canvas by Polina Zhadko, measuring 53 × 46 cm and held in a private collection.
Oil on canvas · 2019
Unity and Struggle of Opposites
A 2020 oil and acrylic painting by Polina Zhadko, held in the collection of Russian Gallery — XXI Century magazine.
Oil, acrylic on canvas · 2020
Intersection Point?
Intersection Point? is a 2023 acrylic painting on canvas by Polina Zhadko, measuring 70 × 60 cm.
Acrylic on canvas · 2023
Quantum Path — Painting Series
Six 2022 paintings explore the Large Hadron Collider, quarks, the Higgs field, photons, programmable matter and entanglement, with an AR project link.
Painting series
Love Through the Ages
A painting series inspired by Polina Zhadko’s affinity with Japan, memory, belonging and torii gates. Discover Scene 4 and its artist statement.
Painting series
Affect
Acrylic on canvas · 42 × 56 cm
Acrylic · 2019
Lyrical Digression
Acrylic on canvas · 56 × 42 cm
Acrylic · 2019
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Firework of Anxiety
Color under pressure
Oil / acrylic · Painting
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The Road of Life
Path, motion, continuity
Painting · Series
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Affect & Lyrical Digression
Two canvases on Artsper
Acrylic on canvas