Rita Soft

Biography

Born in 1998 in Nefteyugansk, a small city in Siberia, the artist developed an early and insistent drive toward knowledge, engaging across disciplines from literature to scientific competitions and sculpture. Drawing, however, remained central. In a place largely removed from cultural infrastructure, she attended a modest art school located in the basement of a residential building, where she first learned to depict landscapes, still lifes, and portraits.

Having mastered these conventions, she quickly rejected them, seeking instead a more personal and necessary form of expression. Painting, for her, is not a choice but a condition—an irreversible impulse. In recent years, she has focused entirely on her own practice, developing a body of work embedded with coded, concealed meanings that remain deliberately undisclosed.