Yulia Bas is a Barcelona-based artist working across installation, painting, sculpture and performance.

Born in Moscow, she studied fine art from an early age and later trained as an architect, then spent more than ten years designing yachts, an experience that gave her a strong feel for space and scale. After living in Italy, she settled in Barcelona in 2017 and returned to art. She has since had solo exhibitions in London, New York, Montreal, Mexico City and Barcelona, and her work is held in private collections internationally.
 

Her practice explores how the world is perceived and negotiated through the body as a site of memory, instability and connection. She builds her works from personal objects and artifacts, and from materials that, like the body, hold memory. In painting she works with textured surfaces of sand, cement, cork, fabric, fibres, charcoal and dried leaves.
 

Her process is often performative. Through slow, repeated gestures such as cutting or untangling, a familiar object or material is gradually opened up until it can no longer return to what it was. In this process, what is difficult or unresolved is reworked into a fuller sense of human complexity.
 

Bas’s work seeks the state where fracture gives way to coherence, and uncertainty becomes a new form of freedom.